176 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1941

sulfide rose %, 34, and ~ cent a pound, respectively, in midyear. Prices
for lithopone and zinc sulfide were advanced on the first day of 1941 but
did not change subsequently. Zinc sulfate prices rose 34 cent a pound in
June.

Range of quotations on lead pigments and zinc pigments and salts at New York
(or delivered in the East), 19$8—41, in cents per pound
Product
1938
1939
1940
1941
Basiclead sulfate, or subilmed lead, less than carlots, barrels         
                 
White lead, or basic lead carbonate, dry, carlots, barrels              
                 
5.50— 6.50

6.00— 7.00
6.25- 6.50

7.00
6.25— 6.75

7.00— 7.50
6.50— 7.00

7.50
Litbarge, commercial, powdered, barrels        
Red lead, dry, 95 percent or less, less than carlots,
barrels                                
5.50-7.50

7.00— 8.50
6.25— 7.75
.
7.75-9.00
6.25-8.25
.
7.75-9.25
7.00—S. 25

8.50-9.25
Orange mineral, Amer,lcan, small lots, barrels      Zinc oxide:
9.50-11.00
10.25-11.25
10.25-11.75
11.00-11.75
American process, lead-free, bags, carlots       
American proceSs, 5 tO 35 percent lead, barrels, carlots                
             
French process, red seal, bags, carlots         
French process, green seal, bags, carlOts        
French process, white seal, barrels, carlots     
Lithopone, domestic, 5-ton lots, bags           
Zinc sulfide, less than carlots, bags, barrels       
Zinc chloride, works:
Solution, tanks                         Fused,drums                     
    
Zlncsu]fate, crystals, barrels                 
6.25- 7.50

5.90- 6.38
7.50
8.00
& 75
4.38— 4.63
8.63— 9.50

2.25
4.25— 5.75
2.65— 4.05
6.25- 7.50

6.25— 6.38
7.50
8.00
.8.75
4.00- 4.38
7.75- 8.88

2.25
4.25— 5.75
2.90— 3.65
6.25- 7.50

6.25-6.75
7. so— 7.75
8.00—S. 25
8.75-9.00
3. 85— 4.00
7.75- 8.00
.
2.25
4.25— 5.75
2.90- 3.90
6.50

6.25- 6.75
7.75
& 25
9.00
4.10
8.00— 8.25
.
2.25— 2.50
4.25— 6.50
3.15- 4.40
 The favorable behavior of prices for lead and zinc pigments and zinc salts,
in the face of the tremendous pressure of record-breaking sales and s~arcity
of raw materials, was in deference to the known Government desire to avoid
price advances wherever possible throughout the war emergency.
 In December zinc oxide producers were requested by the Office of Price Administration
to agree mdividually to a list of maximum prices for their product. The 0.
P. A.-approved ceiling prices per pound for various grades of zinc oxide
delivered in bags in carlots were 7.25 cents for lead-free American process
oxide, 6.75 cents for
* leaded zinc oxides containing 35 percent or more lead, 7.125 cents for
leaded zinc oxides containing less than 35 percent lead, 9.50 cents for lead-free
French process oxides other than U. S. P., and 10.50 cents for French process
U. S. P. oxide. Price schedule 80 of the Office of Price Administration,
effective February 2, 1942, set a
* maximum price of 4.25 cents per pound for the normal grade of lithopone.
FOREIGN TRADE'

 Any discussion of foreign trade in 1941 is necessarily restricted because
data for October and subsequent months are held confidential by the Department
of Commerce. . Incomplete figures for imports fail to mdicate anything unusual
in that phase of foreign trade. It is noteworthy, however, that export values
for the first 9 months of 1941 exceeded those for the full year 1940 in each
group covered by the following table. Lithopone continued to be the - outstanding
item m the export class, whereas zinc oxide led again in the relatively unnnportant
import class.
 Figures on imports and exports compiled by M. B. Price, of the Bureau df
Mines, from records of the Department of Commerce.