Manganese Statistics and Information

Manganese (Mn) is essential to iron and steel production by virtue of its sulfur-fixing, deoxidizing, and alloying properties.   Steelmaking, including its ironmaking component, accounts for most domestic manganese demand, presently in the range of 85% to 90% of the total.   Manganese ferroalloys, consisting of various grades of ferromanganese and silicomanganese, are used to provide most of this key ingredient to steelmaking.   Products for construction, machinery, and transportation are leading end uses of manganese.  Manganese also is a key component of certain widely used aluminum alloys and, in oxide form, dry cell batteries. As ore, additional quantities of manganese are used for such nonmetallurgical purposes as plant fertilizers, animal feed, and colorants for brick.

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Mineral Industry Surveys

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Mineral Commodity Summaries

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Minerals Yearbook

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• Archive
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• Recycling-Metals

Special Publications

• Cr, Cu, Mn, Mo, Ni, and Steel Commodity Price Influences
  Open-File Report 2007-1257
• Critical Mineral Resources of the United States--Economic and Environmental Geology and Prospects for Future Supply
  Professional Paper 1802
  • Manganese
• Critical Minerals Review 2021
• Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) - Focus areas for data acquisition for potential domestic resources of 13 critical minerals in the conterminous United States and Puerto Rico — Antimony, barite, beryllium, chromium, fluorspar, hafnium, helium, magnesium, manganese, potash, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium
• Flow Studies for Recycling Metal Commodities in the United States
  C-1196-A-M
• Historical Statistics for Mineral and Material Commodities in the United States
  Data Series 140
  • Manganese
• Manganese Materials Flow Patterns
  U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9399
• Metal Prices in the United States through 2010
  Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5188
• Statistical Compendium
  • Manganese
• U.S. Mineral Dependence - Statistical Compilation of U.S. and World Mineral Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1990-2010 Open-File Report 2013-1184

Other Sources of Information

• Manganese Consumption and Recycling Flow Model, 1995 (NTIS Stock No. PB95187076) [Order from National Technical Information Service]
• Manganese Material Flow Patterns (NTIS Stock No. PB94209467) [Order from National Technical Information Service]