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Titanium

Titanium minerals are used mainly:
a) in the pigment industry, to produce a pure oxide white pigment, widely used in paints, papers and polymers (85% of world consumption in terms of TiO2 content);
b) for the manufacture of welding rods, chemical compounds, fibreglass and ceramics (10%);
c) in the titanium metal industry for use in commercial and military aircraft.


Links:
-World Bureau of Metal Statistics - Statistics 2000 - 2002




Production of Titanium
Thousand Tonnes

 
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
Europe
Norway
256.889
306.281
344.211
367.019
377.968
387.500
Russia (Europe)
24.000
25.000
25.500
25.500
26.000
27.000
Ukraine
250.000
130.000
90.000
80.000
70.000
66.500
total
530.889
461.281
459.711
472.519
473.968
481.000
 
Africa
       
South Africa
1.200.000
1.394.877
1.400.000
1.450.000
1.500.000
1.130.000
total
1.200.000
1.394.877
1.400.000
1.450.000
1.500.000
1.130.000
 
Asia
China
150.000
160.000
170.000
175.000
150.000
180.000
Egypt
22.000
24.000
23.000
22.000
20.000
19.000
India
240.000
240.000
220.000
280.000
300.000
265.000
Kazakhstan
11.500
11.300
11.000
10.800
11.000
12.000
Malaysia
63.000
61.000
60.000
59.000
95.148
61.471
Sri Lanka
36.550
37.000
36.800
36.500
35.000
34.000
Vietnam
49.500
50.000
51.000
52.000
54.000
56.000
total
572.550
583.300
571.800
635.300
665.148
627.471
 
America
Brazil
54.000
54.000
66.936
64.800
62.000
91.360
Canada
620.000
600.000
550.000
530.000
450.000
500.000
United States
300.000
300.000
300.000
400.000
409.000
500.000
total
974.000
954.000
916.936
994.800
921.000
1.091.360
           
Oceania
Australia
1.351.020
1.379.550
1.980.000
2.000.000
2.079.000
1.921.000
total
1.351.020
1.379.550
1.980.000
2.000.000
2.079.000
1.921.000
 
WORLD TOTAL
6.552.029
6.735.858
7.880.247
8.187.919
8.383.264
7.799.302


Source: Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit (Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour of the Republic of Austria), World Mining Data, April 2006