MINERALS IN THE WORLD ECONOMY—1991  43TABLE 24—Continued

 
NONFERROUS METAL PRICES IN TILE UNITED KINGDOM' 
 
(Average cents per pound unless otherwise specified) 
 
Year and month Aluminum2 Copper' Gold' Lead' 
Silver' 
 
Tin7 
Zinc' 
1991—Continued: 
November 51.474 107.948 360.167 22.945 
December 49.784 100.840 361.725 24.117 
 Average 59.067 106.086 362.179 25.269 
4.078 
 
3.958 
 
4.055 
 
2.436 
 
2.428 
 
2.484 
49.591 
 
53.885 
 
50.671 
' London Metal Exchange. 2Unallcycd ingot, 99.5%. ' Grade A aettlemant price.
4U.S. dollars ~r tony ounce, final price. 
' Refined lead, monthly average cash price. 
' U.S. dollars per tony ounce, 0.999 fine, spot price. 
' U.S. dollars per pound, for i987 Straits tin beginning 1988 Kuaia Lumpur
tin market price. (i987 average price tiar sama on both markets.) "Monthly
average cash price. high-grade. 
 
 
 
 
Source: Amarican Bureau of Metal Statistics Inc. 
 
 
 
 
TABLE 25 
 
LEADING WORLD PRODUCERS OF BAUXITE' 
 
 
 
 
(Fhousand metric tons) 
 
 
 
 
Country 1987 1988 1989 1990 
 
1991~ 
 
 
Australia 34,102 36,192 38,583 r41,391Guinea 13,500 15,619 16,523 ' 17,524Jamaica
7,802 7,305 9,601 10,921Brazil 6,567 8,083 8,665 ' 9,678India 2,779 3,961
4,768 ' 4,852U.S.S.R.' ' 5,726 ' 5,714 ' 5,737 5,295Surname 2,522 3,434 3,530
3,267Yugoslavia 3,394 3,034 3,252 2,952China ' 2,200 ' 2,300 ' 2,388 ' 2,400Guyana
~ 2,785 1,774 1,321 1,424Greece ' 2,467 ' 2,433 ' 2,602 ' 2,504Hungary 3,101
2,593 2,644 2,559Venezuela 245 522 702 771Sierra Leone 1,390 1,379 1,562
' 1,430 Total ' 88,579 ' 94,343 ' 101,878 ' 106,968Other ' 4,148 ' 3,728
' 3,340 ' 3,728 Grandtotal ' ' 92,726 ' 98,071 ' 105,218 ' 110,696 
 
40,503 
 
17,054 
 
1 1 ,552 
 
10,310 
 
4,835 
 
4,795 
 
3,198 
 
' 2,700 
 
2,600 
 
2,204 
 
2,130 
 
2,037 
 
1,992 
 
1,288 
 
' 107,199 
 
3,064 
 
110,263 
 
38,154 
 
16,044 
 
9,436 
 
8,661 
 
4,239 
 
5,453 
 
3,190 
 
3,066 
 
2,378 
 
1,902 
 
2,427 
 
2,587 
 
846 
 
1,410 
 
99,793 
 
3,602 
 
103,395 
' Estimated. ' Preliminary. ' Revised. 
' Table includes data available through Jtn~ i6, 1992. 
2~1~ bauxite equivalent of neplasline syenite concentrate and ah,nite ore,
which are produced in tha U.S.S.R. only. ' Data do not add to total shown
don to independent rotn~ing.