Materials Flow

General

• Critical Minerals Draft List 2025
• Critical Minerals Review 2022
• Mineral Commodity Review 2022
• Critical Minerals Review 2021
• Methodology and Technical Input for the 2021 Review and Revision of the U.S. Critical Minerals List
• 20th Century U.S. Mineral Prices Decline in Constant Dollars
  Open-File Report 00-389
• A Note on Scrap in the 1992 U.S. Input-Output Tables
  Open-File Report 00-313
• Assessment of Critical Minerals: Updated Application of an Early-warning Screening Methodology
  Mineral Economics, October 2017, Volume 30
• Byproduct Metals and Rare-Earth Elements Used in the Production of Light-Emitting Diodes—Overview of Principal Sources of Supply and Material Requirements for Selected Markets
  Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5215
• Byproduct mineral commodities used for the production of photovoltaic cells
  Circular 1365
• Comparison of U.S. Net Import Reliance for Nonfuel Mineral Commodities--A 60-year Retrospective (1954-1984-2014)
  Fact Sheet 2015-3082
• Compilation of Geospatial Data for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Latin America and the Caribbean
  Open-File Report 2017-1079
• Consumption of Materials in the United States, 1900-1995
• Critical Mineral Resources of the United States--Economic and Environmental Geology and Prospects for Future Supply
  Professional Paper 1802
• Drivers of U.S. Mineral Demand
  Open-File Report 2006-1025
• The Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak and the Mineral Sectors of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
  Fact Sheet 2015–3033
• Economic Drivers of Mineral Supply
  Open-File Report 02-335
• Effects of Regulation and Technology on End Uses of Nonfuel Mineral Commodities in the United States
  Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5194
• Estimates of Electricity Requirements for the Recovery of Mineral Commodities, with Examples Applied to Sub-Saharan Africa
  Open-File Report 2011–1253
• Estimates of Immediate Effects on World Markets of a Hypothetical Disruption to Russia’s Supply of Six Mineral Commodities 
  Open-File Report 2017-1023
• Evaluating the Mineral Commodity Supply Risk of the U.S. Manufacturing Sector - Risk tool identified 23 mineral commodities whose supply poses the greatest risk, including those used in consumer electronics, renewable energy, aerospace, and defense applications.
• Flow Studies for Recycling Metal Commodities in the United States
  Circular 1196 (Supersedes Open-File Report 2005-1051)
• Global Flows of Metals and Minerals
  Open-File Report 2008–1355
• Global Stocks of Selected Mineral-based Commodities
  Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5152
• Global Trends in Mineral Commodity Supplies: Implications for U.S. Economic and National Security Interests
  Reprint from Journal of Explosives Engineering
• Coastal Deposits of Heavy mineral Sands; Global Significance and U.S. Resources
  Mining Engineering, v. 68, no. 10, p. 36-43
• International Mineral Exploration Activities From 1995 Through 2004 
  Data Series 139
• International Mineral Exploration Activities From 1995 Through 2009
• "Materials", a report by the U.S. Interagency Working Group on Industrial Ecology, Material and Energy Flows.
• Materials and Energy Flows in the Earth Science Century
  Circular 1194
• Materials in the Economy -- Material Flows, Scarcity, and the Environment
  Circular 1221
• Materials Flow and Sustainability (PDF)
  Fact Sheet 068-98
• Metal Prices in the United States through 2010
  Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5188
• Metal Stocks in Use in the United States
  Fact Sheet 2005-3090
• Mines and Mineral Processing Facilities in the Vicinity of the March 11, 2011, Earthquake in Northern Honshu, Japan
  Open-File Report 2011–1069
• Mining Review--Annual Review 2017
  Mining Engineering, v.70, no.5, May, p.51-60
• Mining Review--Annual Review 2018
  Mining Engineering, v.71, no.5, May, p.51-60
• Minor Metals and Renewable Energy - Diversifying America’s Energy Sources
  Fact Sheet 2017-3061
• Natural Hazards and Mineral Commodity Supply: Quantifying Risk of Earthquake Disruption to South American Copper Supply
  Resources Policy, Volume 63, October 2019
• North American Net Import Reliance of Mineral Materials in 2014 for Advanced Technologies
  Mining Engineering, 2018, Vol. 70, No. 7, pp. 107-112.
• Obsolete Computers, 'Gold Mine,' or High-Tech Trash? Resource Recovery from Recycling
  Fact Sheet 060-01
• Policy -- A Factor Shaping Minerals Supply and Demand
  Open-File Report 02-418
• Raw materials and technology fuel U.S. economic growth
• Recent Trends in Cuba's Mining and Petroleum Industries 
  Fact Sheet 2015–3032
• Recent Trends in the Nonfuel Minerals Industry of Iran 
  Circular 1421
• Recycled Cell Phones—A Treasure Trove of Valuable Metals 
  Fact Sheet 2006-3097
• Resource Nationalism in Indonesia—Effects of the 2014 Mineral Export Ban 
  Fact Sheet 2016-3072
• Review of selected global mineral industries in 2011 and an outlook to 2017 
  Open-File Report 2013-1091
• Sociocultural and Institutional Drivers and Constraints to Mineral Supply
  Open-File Report 02-333
• Technological Advancement -- A Factor in Increasing Resource Use
  Open-File Report 01-197
• Total Materials Consumption:  An Estimation Methodology and Example Using Lead – A Materials Flow Analysis
  Circular 1183
• Use of Raw Materials in the United States from 1900 through 2014 
  Fact Sheet 2017-3062
• Wind Energy in the United States and Materials Required for the Land-based Wind Turbine Industry from 2010 through 2030 
  Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5036