Magnesium (Mg) is the eighth most abundant element and constitutes about 2% of the Earth's crust, and it is the third most plentiful element dissolved in seawater.    Although magnesium is found in over 60 minerals, only dolomite, magnesite, brucite, carnallite, and olivine are of commercial importance.  Magnesium and other magnesium compounds are also produced from seawater, well and lake brines and bitterns.  Magnesium compounds, primarily magnesium oxide, are used mainly as refractory material in furnace linings for producing iron and steel, nonferrous metals, glass, and cement.   Magnesium oxide and other compounds also are used in agricultural, chemical, and construction industries.   Magnesium metal's principal use is as an alloying addition to aluminum; these aluminum-magnesium alloys are used mainly for beverage cans.   Magnesium alloys also are used as structural components of automobiles and machinery.    Magnesium also is used to remove sulfur from iron and steel.

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Mineral Industry Surveys

Magnesium
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Mineral Commodity Summaries

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• Appendixes

Minerals Yearbook

• Magnesium Compounds
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• Magnesium
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• Archive
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• Recycling-Metals

Special Publications

• Fertilizers -- Sustaining Global Food Supplies
  FS-155-99
• 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
  • Magnesium Compounds
  • Magnesium Metal
• Magnesium, Its Alloys and Compounds
  OF-01-341
• Metal Prices in the United States through 2010
  Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5188
• Statistical Compendium
• U.S. Mineral Dependence-Statistical Compilation of U.S. and World Mineral Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1990-2010
  Open-File Report 2013-1184

Links

• International Magnesium Association