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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects domestic and international data on a broad selection of commercially important nonfuel mineral commodities. These data form the basis to analyze and disseminate information on minerals and mineral materials essential to the U.S. economy and national security.

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U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook Data for Select Mineral Commodities Referenced in the U.S. Geological Survey Methodology and Technical Input for the 2025 U.S. List of Critical Minerals—Assessing the Potential Effects of Mineral Commodity Supply C U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook Data for Select Mineral Commodities Referenced in the U.S. Geological Survey Methodology and Technical Input for the 2025 U.S. List of Critical Minerals—Assessing the Potential Effects of Mineral Commodity Supply C

This dataset contains world production quantities, world production capacities, and United States consumption statistics for a select number of non-fuel mineral commodities published in the U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook, Volume I (Metals and Minerals) and Volume III (Area Reports — International), and cited in U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2025-1047 ("Methodology and...

Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports — International: 2019 country chapters, table 1, production of mineral commodities Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports — International: 2019 country chapters, table 1, production of mineral commodities

This data release contains the compilation of country level mineral commodity production data extracted from Table 1 within all published 2019 international chapters in the U.S. Geological Survey's annual publication Minerals Yearbook Volume III: Area Reports — International. Individual Minerals Yearbook country chapters are published independently from the complete volume as "Advanced...

Historical and simulated global production, price, and demand for copper, cobalt, and nickel for 2001-2033, including simulation parameters Historical and simulated global production, price, and demand for copper, cobalt, and nickel for 2001-2033, including simulation parameters

This dataset includes the underlying data for each figure and table, as well as the raw model output data, for the publication: Modeling interconnected minerals markets with multicommodity supply curves: examining the copper-cobalt-nickel system, published in Nature Communications.

Data for assessment of mineral commodity supply risk 2018 Data for assessment of mineral commodity supply risk 2018

Data for Figure 2 of U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021-1045 titled "Methodology and Technical Input for the 2021 Review and Revision of the U.S. Critical Minerals List." The data include the disruption potential, economic vulnerability, trade exposure, and overall supply risk for various mineral commodities in 2018. For some commodities, indicator scores are rounded to avoid...

World minerals outlook to 2029—Cobalt, gallium, helium, lithium, magnesium, palladium, platinum, and titanium data World minerals outlook to 2029—Cobalt, gallium, helium, lithium, magnesium, palladium, platinum, and titanium data

Given the rapid expansion in the demand for mineral commodities that underpin worldwide economic growth and technological advancement, information regarding expected country-level mine production and production capacity is becoming increasingly important. In particular, production capacity can limit future supply, depending on how rapidly that capacity is able to expand. This World...

U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 Data Release (ver. 2.0, April 2025) U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 Data Release (ver. 2.0, April 2025)

This database contains the United States salient statistics and world production statistics for over 90 nonfuel mineral commodities. Salient statistics for the United States includes items such as production, imports, exports, price, stocks, apparent consumption, and/or net import reliance for nonfuel mineral commodities. The database contains separate table files (entities) in CSV...

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries of Select Countries in the Indo-Pacific Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries of Select Countries in the Indo-Pacific

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 19 countries of interest in the Indo-Pacific region (area of study): Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Fiji, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea (Republic of Korea), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor...

U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 Data Release (ver. 2.0, March 2024) U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 Data Release (ver. 2.0, March 2024)

This database contains the United States salient statistics and world production statistics for over 88 nonfuel mineral commodities. Salient statistics for the United States includes items such as production, imports, exports, price, stocks, apparent consumption, and/or net import reliance for nonfuel mineral commodities. The database contains separate table files (entities) in CSV...

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of the People's Republic of China Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of the People's Republic of China

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for the People's Republic of China. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement...

U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 Data Release U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 Data Release

This database contains the United States salient statistics and world production statistics for over 88 nonfuel mineral commodities. Salient statistics for the United States includes items such as production, imports, exports, price, stocks, apparent consumption, and/or net import reliance for nonfuel mineral commodities. The database contains two separate table files (entities) in CSV...

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Select Countries in Southwest Asia Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Select Countries in Southwest Asia

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 10 countries of interest in Southwest Asia (area of study): Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, and Thailand. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical...

Trade Codes Related to the Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain for the United States, the European Union, and the People's Republic of China (2020-2021) Trade Codes Related to the Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain for the United States, the European Union, and the People's Republic of China (2020-2021)

This dataset presents information concerning 8- and 10-digit trade codes related to the rechargeable lithium-ion battery (LIB) supply chain for the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the European Union, and the United States as classified by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rulings. Note that this dataset is not intended to be a complete or comprehensive list of trade codes for the...
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