In 2021, the United States produced some 43,000 metric tons of rare earth mineral concentrates (bastnäsite), in addition to 230 metric tons of rare earth compounds and metals.
Bastnäsite is a group of three carbonate-fluoride minerals, each composed of different combinations of the rare earth elements cerium, lanthanum, and yttrium in combination with carbonate-fluoride. Rare earth elements today are commonly used in automobile catalysts and petroleum refining catalysts, televisions, magnets, batteries, and medical devices.
Production of rare earths in the United States from 2012 to 2021, by type
(in metric tons of rare-earth oxide equivalent)
*Bastnäsite concentrates.
**Estimated.
Figures for 2016 and 2017 were not available due to withheld proprietary data.
This statistic was assembled using several editions of the report. Data for rare earth compounds and metals production only available from 2021 onwards.
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US Geological Survey. (January 31, 2022). Production of rare earths in the United States from 2012 to 2021, by type (in metric tons of rare-earth oxide equivalent) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 07, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/616801/basnasite-concentrates-production-in-the-united-states/
US Geological Survey. "Production of rare earths in the United States from 2012 to 2021, by type (in metric tons of rare-earth oxide equivalent)." Chart. January 31, 2022. Statista. Accessed July 07, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/616801/basnasite-concentrates-production-in-the-united-states/
US Geological Survey. (2022). Production of rare earths in the United States from 2012 to 2021, by type (in metric tons of rare-earth oxide equivalent). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 07, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/616801/basnasite-concentrates-production-in-the-united-states/
US Geological Survey. "Production of Rare Earths in The United States from 2012 to 2021, by Type (in Metric Tons of Rare-earth Oxide Equivalent)." Statista, Statista Inc., 31 Jan 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/616801/basnasite-concentrates-production-in-the-united-states/
US Geological Survey, Production of rare earths in the United States from 2012 to 2021, by type (in metric tons of rare-earth oxide equivalent) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/616801/basnasite-concentrates-production-in-the-united-states/ (last visited July 07, 2022)
