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Table 2
1986 Platinum Imports
I-*8 PIatinurn Irnprts from Smfh
A , ,
Platinum
@==='=I
31,1643,682
Amount Percent
Notea
a. Bureau of Mines, Prrprinf fnrm the 1986 Bumu of Mirres Mincmls
Ymbmkf Platinum Group Metab, 198T: Washin@n, D.C,
inkindent of Jhcumenfs.
b. Japan Tariff Association, lopan Erports 8 Impmts, Commodity by
CotnQ, 86.121987. Toyko.
Uds Title III of the Defense M d o n Act, bhe US
Departmat of Defense began dmhg a request for propods for
the purchase of high-purity chromium metal from supedoy
scrap to sthulate domestic recycling of supdays that contain
hmium. Implementation and support of this prop4 would
greatly assist the development of the domestic recycling indwiq.
Table 2 pre~~ts data on platinum, which is the major metal
of the six comprising the platinum-pup metals (PGhl). The
second majar metal b palladi~ h 1986 the USSR mdl the
Republic of South Africa accounted for ninety-five permit of
world mine production of PQvI with South Africa accounting far
46 percent of the world's platinum prod~ction?~ Table 2
indicates that the United States and Japan are not highly
dependent upon South Africa's plakun exgorts. Plsltinuw is
mined in the United Skates, but production figures are not
known, as the mining companies refuse to disclose this data.