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U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey

MINERAL COMMODITY SUMMARIES 2011

Abrasives Aluminum Antimony Arsenic Asbestos Barite Bauxite Beryllium Bismuth Boron Bromine Cadmium Cement Cesium Chromium Clays Cobalt Copper Diamond Diatomite Feldspar

Fluorspar Gallium Garnet Gemstones Germanium Gold Graphite Gypsum Hafnium Helium Indium Iodine Iron and Steel Iron Ore IronOxide Pigments Kyanite Lead Lime Lithium Magnesium Manganese

Mercury Mica Molybdenum Nickel Niobium Nitrogen Peat Perlite Phosphate Rock Platinum Potash Pumice Quartz Crystal Rare Earths Rhenium Rubidium Salt Sand and Gravel Scandium Selenium Silicon

Silver Soda Ash Sodium Sulfate Stone Strontium Sulfur Talc Tantalum Tellurium Thallium Thorium Tin Titanium Tungsten Vanadium VermiculiteWollastonite Yttrium Zeolites Zinc Zirconium

U.S. Department of the Interior KEN SALAZAR, Secretary U.S. Geological Survey Marcia K. McNutt, Director

U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2011

Manuscript approved for publication January 21, 2011.

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CONTENTS
Page General: Introduction .................................................................... 3 Growth Rates of Leading and Coincident Indexes for Mineral Products ......................................................... 4 The Role of Nonfuel Minerals in the U.S. Economy ...... 52010 U.S. Net Import Reliance for Selected Nonfuel Mineral Materials ........................................................ 6 Mineral Commodities: Abrasives (Manufactured) ............................................ 14 Aluminum ..................................................................... 16 Antimony ...................................................................... 18Arsenic ......................................................................... 20 Asbestos ...................................................................... 22 Barite ............................................................................ 24 Bauxite and Alumina .................................................... 26 Beryllium...................................................................... 28 Bismuth ........................................................................ 30 Boron............................................................................ 32 Bromine ........................................................................ 34 Cadmium ...................................................................... 36Cement......................................................................... 38 Cesium ......................................................................... 40 Chromium..................................................................... 42 Clays ............................................................................ 44 Cobalt ........................................................................... 46 Copper...