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	metric tons of tantalum mined
	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Australia	165	218	224	170	238	274	276	302	330	350	485	660	940	765	807	854	478	441	557	81
Brazil	90	84	60	50	50	50	55	55	310	165	190	210	200	200	213	216	176	180	180	180
Canada	86	93	48	25	36	33	55	49	57	54	57	77	58	55	57	63	56	45	40	25
D.R. Congo	10	16	8	6	1	1	--	--	NA	NA	130	60	30	15	20	33	14	71	100	87
Africa, excl. DR Congo	45	66	59	59	8	3	3	3	82	76	208	173	242	245	333	214	146	135	313	297
WORLD	396	477	399	310	333	361	389	409	779	645	1070	1180	1470	1280	1430	1380	870	872	1190	670
Sources: 1990-1993: U.S. Geological Survey, "1994 Minerals Yearbook" (MYB), "COLUMBIUM (NIOBIUM) AND TANTALUM" By Larry D. Cunningham, Table 10; 1994-1997: MYB 1998; 1998-2001: MYB 2002; 2002-2003: MYB 2004; 2004: MYB 2008; 2005-2009: MYB 2009.
NA Not available. -- Zero.

	% of global mined tantalum production
	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Australia	41.7%	45.7%	56.1%	54.8%	71.5%	75.9%	71.0%	73.8%	42.4%	54.3%	45.3%	55.9%	63.9%	59.8%	56.4%	61.9%	54.9%	50.6%	46.8%	12.1%
Brazil	22.7%	17.6%	15.0%	16.1%	15.0%	13.9%	14.1%	13.4%	39.8%	25.6%	17.8%	17.8%	13.6%	15.6%	14.9%	15.7%	20.2%	20.6%	15.1%	26.9%
Canada	21.7%	19.5%	12.0%	8.1%	10.8%	9.1%	14.1%	12.0%	7.3%	8.4%	5.3%	6.5%	3.9%	4.3%	4.0%	4.6%	6.4%	5.2%	3.4%	3.7%
D.R. Congo	2.5%	3.4%	2.0%	1.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	12.1%	5.1%	2.0%	1.2%	1.4%	2.4%	1.6%	8.1%	8.4%	13.0%
Africa. excl. DR Congo	11.4%	13.8%	14.8%	19.0%	2.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%	10.5%	11.8%	19.4%	14.7%	16.5%	19.1%	23.3%	15.5%	16.8%	15.5%	26.3%	44.3%
WORLD	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

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