Mercury Statistics and Information

Mercury is the only common metal that is liquid at room temperature.  It occurs either as native metal or in cinnabar, corderoite, livingstonite, and other minerals.  Mercury has uniform volumetric thermal expansion, good electrical conductivity, and easily forms amalgams with almost all common metals except iron.  Most mercury is used for the manufacture of industrial chemicals and for electrical and electronic applications.

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Annual Publications

Mineral Commodity Summaries

• Mercury
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• Appendixes

Minerals Yearbook

• Mercury
    PDF Format:
       | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
    XLS Format:
       | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 tables-only release | 2021 tables-only release | 2022 tables-only release | 2023 tables-only release |
• Archive
       | 1932-1993 |
• Recycling-Metals

Special Publications

• Changing Patterns in the Use, Recycling, and Material Substitution of Mercury in the United States
  Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5137
• Historical Statistics for Mineral and Material Commodities in the United States
  Data Series 140
  • Mercury
• Materials Flow of Mercury in the Economies of the United States and the World
  Circular 1197
• Materials Flow of Mercury in the United States
  Circular 9412
• Mercury Flow Through the Mercury-Containing Lamp Sector of the Economy of the United States
  Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5264
• Mercury Recycling in the United States in 2000
  Circular 1196-U (Supersedes Open-File Report 2005-1236)
• Metal Prices in the United States through 2010
  Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5188
• Peru Mercury Inventory 2006
  Open File Report 2007-1252
• U.S. Mineral Dependence-Statistical Compilation of U.S. and World Mineral Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1990-2010
  Open-File Report 2013-1184