current business statistics - Bureau of Economic Analysis

February 1972 SURVEY OF CURKENT BUSINESS S-33
Unless otherwise stated in footnotes below, data
through 1968 and descriptive notes are as shown
in the 1969 edition of BUSINESS STATISTICS
NONFERROUS METALS AND PRODUCTS
Aluminum:
Production, primary (dom. and foreign ores)
thous. sh. tons
Recovery from scrap (aluminum content) __do_ __
Imports (general):
Metal and alloys, crude __ _- do
Plates sheets, etc do
Exports metal and alloys, crude _ __do
Price, primary ingot, 99.5% minimum...$ per lb_.
Aluminum products:
Shipments:
Ingot and mill prod, (net ship.)§ mil. lb_.
Mill products total § do
Plate and sheet § do
Castings A do
Inventories, total (ingot, mill prod., and scrap),
end of period* mil. lb._
Copper:
Production:
Mine, recoverable copper thous. sh. tons--
Refinery, primary - do. _
From domestic ores -do_ -_
From foreign ores do_
Secondary, recovered as refined _ _ __ _.do
Imports (general) :
Refined, unrefined, scrap (copper cont.)__do
Refined do
Exports:
Refined and scrap do
Refined do
Consumption, refined (by mills, etc.) _do_ __
Stocks, refined, end of period do
Fabricators' do
Price, electrolytic (wirebars), dom., delivered!
$ per Ib
Copper-base mill and foundry products, shipments
(quarterly total) :
Brass mill products mil. Ib
Copper wire mill products (copper cont.) do
Brass and bronze foundry products do
Lead:
Production:
Mine, recoverable lead -thous. sh. tons
Recovered from scrap (lead cont.) do
Imports (general), ore (lead cont.), metal...do
Consumption, total do
Stocks, end of period:
Producers', ore, base bullion, and in process
(lead content), ABM S ihous. sh. tons
Refiners' (primary), refined and antimonial
(lead content) _. _thous. sh. tons
C onsumers' (lead content) d" do
Scrap (lead-base, purchased), all smelters
(gross weight) thous. sh. tons
Price, common grade (N.Y.) $ perlb..
Tin:
Imports (for consumption) :
Ore (tin content) Ig. tons _
Bars, pigs, etc do
Recovery from scrap, total (tin cont.)_ _do_
As metal. _ __ _ do
Consumption, total _ .do. _
Primary.. . _ do
Exports, incl. reexports (metal) _ _ _ .do
Stocks, pig (industrial) , end of period. _ _do- _ .
Price, pig, Straits (N.Y.), prompt $ perlb._
Zinc:
Mine prod., recoverable zinc thous. sh. tons..
Imports (general) :
Ores (zinc content) do.
Metal (slab, blocks) do
Consumption (recoverable zinc content):
Ores do
Scrap, all types.. do
Slab zinc:
Production (primary smelter), from domestic
and foreign ores thous. sh. tons __
Secondary (redistilled) production _ _ do
Consumption, fabricators. __ __. do
Exports . do
Stocks, end of period:
Producers', at smelter (ZI)O do
Consumers' _ _ do
Price, Prime Western (East St. Louis). $ per lb-_
1969 1970
Annual
1970
Dec.
1971
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
METALS AND MANUFACTURES—Continued
3, 793. 1
i 978. 0
468.6
57.2
344.4
.2718
10,717.5
7, 666. 3
3, 726. 8
1, 698. 1
3,785
1, 544. 6
1, 742. 8
1, 468. 9
273.9
465.6
415.1
131.1
286.2
200.3
i 2, 142
i 171. 0
i 125. 0
.4793
3,111
2,524
853
509.0
i 603. 9
389.6
1,389.4
165.7
125.7
-•1126.4
173.6
.1490
0
54, 950
1 22, 775
13,022
i 80, 790
i 57, 730
3,217
13, 824
1. 6444
553.1
602.1
324.7
1 126. 7
1 302. 1
1,040.6
170.6
1,368.3
9.3
167.7
1 100. 5
.1460
3, 976. 1
835, 0
350.2
78.7
408.5
.2872
9,952.5
7, 358. 0
3, 688. 6
1, 506. 5
4,387
1,719.7
1, 765. 1
1, 521. 2
243.9
475.0
394.2
132.1
348.9
222.0
i 2, 042
i 348. 0
i 187.0
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