Metal prices in the United States Through / Стоимость металлов в США до 1998 года

The purpose of this publication is to make an extended price history for a wide range of metals available in a single document. Such information can be useful for the analysis of mineralcommodity issues, as well as for other purposes. The chapter for each mineral commodity includes a graph of annual current and constant dollar prices for 1959 through 1998, where available; a list of significant events that affected prices; a brief discussion of the metal and its history; and one or more tables that list current dollar prices.

In some cases, the “metal prices” presented herein are for some alternative form of an element or, instead of a price, a value, such as the Customs value for an import as appraised by the U.S. Customs Service. Also included are prices for steel, steel scrap, and iron ore—steel because of its importance to the elements used to alloy with it and steel scrap and iron ore because of their use in steelmaking. A few minor metals, such as potassium, sodium, and strontium, for which the price histories were insufficient, were excluded. <...>