Date (Creation)

2026-03-31

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608649

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Exports

• Imports

• Mineral statistics

dataCentre

• NGDC Deposited Data
• Citable Data

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Begin date

2020

End date

2024

Distribution format

Name	Version
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item191910	Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://doi.org/10.5285/ef081821-ef4c-46b9-9af6-2ca6914c12fb	Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

Non geographic dataset

Other

non geographic dataset

Statement

The UK Minerals Yearbook is compiled through extensive data collection from a range of authoritative sources, including companies, trade associations, the Office for National Statistics, government departments, UK Trade Info, and the British Geological Survey. These sources provide the raw production, trade, and economic data needed for national level mineral statistics. Once gathered, the data undergo processing, which involves targeted research, organisation, and systematic manipulation to ensure consistency across datasets.. This includes performing calculations, filling gaps, making estimations where appropriate, and applying quality control checks. Finally, the refined data are prepared for publication through data presentation steps. These include generating tables directly from the World Mineral Statistics database, the UK minerals database and formatting and combining all elements to create the final yearbook. in the production of a comprehensive, coherent publication that summarises the UK’s mineral statistics for the year. All of the data required for the UK Summary Tables are entered into the World Mineral Statistics database. Most UK trade data come from the UK Trade Info website which is data collected by HMRC. The data originally contained within the UK Minerals Yearbook is largely collected by other bodies. A list of the departments and organisations concerned is given below, together with the titles of principal publications that have been used. In many cases the BGS has also been provided with supplementary or unpublished information. Interested readers are strongly advised to consult the original sources themselves wherever possible and in this connection may wish to refer not only to the publications as listed here, but also earlier issues in the same series, some of which were published under different titles. Information about the production of minerals in the United Kingdom is given from 1853 to 1881 in Geological Survey Memoirs entitled Mineral Statistics, by Robert Hunt, Keeper of Mining Records; earlier information for certain metalliferous minerals is also available. Since 1873 all collieries, metalliferous mines have been required by statute to complete annual returns of production, and since 1895 the same has applied to quarries. These returns were made to the Home Office, which, in 1882, was made responsible for the publication of Mineral Statistics. In 1920 responsibility for collection of returns was transferred to the Mines Department (Board of Trade) and statistics were subsequently published in the Annual Reports of the Secretary of Mines. The Mines Department was incorporated into, the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1942, and statistics from 1938 to 1972 were published in their Statistical Digests (subsequently the Digests of Energy Statistics of the Department of Trade and Industry). In 1973 responsibility for the collection of returns relating to most minerals other than fuels was transferred to the Business Statistics Office (formerly part of the DTI, now the ONS). The Annual Minerals Raised Inquiry was conducted by the ONS and published annually as Mineral Extraction in Great Britain until early 2016 (the last year of data is 2014). For 2015 onwards this volume has attempted to obtain data from alternative sources to fill as many of the data gaps as possible. These sources include the Mineral Products Association and Ceramics UK (amongst others). The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (formerly Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), collects statistics relating to hydrocarbons (natural gas and crude petroleum). Statistics on, coal production are collected by The Coal Authority. Details of mineral production in Northern Ireland since 1922 have been obtained by the Northern Ireland Government. data from Government sources has been used under OGL.

Metadata

File identifier

4c455bd1-882c-bc59-e063-3050940a1828 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Non geographic dataset

Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Date stamp

2026-05-02

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608649