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World Mineral Statistics Dataset

The British Geological Survey has one of the largest databases in the world on the production and trade of minerals. The dataset contains annual production statistics by mass for more than 70 mineral commodities covering the majority of economically important and internationally-traded minerals, metals and mineral-based materials. For each commodity the annual production statistics are recorded for individual countries, grouped by continent. Import and export statistics are also available for years up to 2002. Maintenance of the database is funded by the Science Budget and output is used by government, private industry and others in support of policy, economic analysis and commercial strategy. As far as possible the production data are compiled from primary, official sources. Quality assurance is maintained by participation in such groups as the International Consultative Group on Non-ferrous Metal Statistics. Individual commodity and country tables are available for sale on request.

Simple

Alternate title

WMS

Date (Creation)
1918
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480180
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

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • UK Location (INSPIRE)

  • Imports

  • Absolute age

  • Commerce

  • Mineral statistics

  • Ores

  • Statistics

  • Commodity economics

  • Mineral economics

  • Production

  • Exports

dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • MET4TECH
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
BGS Mineral Statistics terms and conditions (IPR) The copyright of all materials derived from the BGS's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and/or the authority that commissioned the work. You may adapt and use these tables for non-commercial academic and research purposes, however should you wish to use them for any commercial purpose or provide them to a third party, you need to satisfy yourself that you have permission from the original copyright owner (where NERC is providing tables with permission and is not the copyright holder) or seek NERC's permission where the copyright is held by NERC. Please contact the BGS Intellectual Property Rights section, British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, or email ipr@bgs.ac.uk Your use of any materials supplied by the British Geological Survey (BGS) is at your own risk. Neither the BGS nor the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives any warranty, condition or representation as to the quality, accuracy or completeness of the information or its suitability for any use or purpose or that the use of any of the statistics will not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of any third party. All implied conditions relating to the quality or suitability of the information, and all liabilities arising from the supply of the information (including any liability arising in negligence) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. The tables are provided "as-is" on the understanding that they have been derived from data created using data capture standards and methodologies considered appropriate at the time of its creation. The data may not have been subjected to current BGS standards of scrutiny and approval. Neither the NERC nor its employees accept any liability in respect of loss, damage, injury or any other occurrence arising from the provision of, or derived from, the data. Data may be compiled from the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including material donated to BGS by third parties, and may not originally have been subject to any verification or other quality control process. By use of the following acknowledgement it must be made clear to anyone viewing the tables that material has been contributed by BGS: "World Mineral Statistics contributed by permission of the British Geological Survey".
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

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Other constraints

The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ( iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
WORLD [id=100000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

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Begin date
1913
Supplemental Information

Update of individual annual figures is a year-round process. 'World Mineral Statistics 1997-2001'(annual) BGS PUBLICATION. PUBLICATION: 'WORLD MINERAL STATISTICS 1995-99' Mackenzie, A.C. et al. 1999 PUBLICATION: MODERNISATION OF THE WORLD MINERALS STATISTICS DATABASE, BGS TECHNICAL REPORT. 'World Mineral Statistics 1998-2002' 'European Mineral Statistics 1997-2001' 'European Mineral Statistics 1998-2002' Additional data on trade are available in paper form (sources of imports, destinations of exports). No data are routinely compiled on aggregate minerals (crushed rock or natural). For 12 commodities data are for production only. Standard abbreviations and symbols are used throughout. Units of measurements are tonnes, kilograms or carats, according to commodity. Value (#) is used where mass is not available. Estimated numbers are rounded to between one and three orders of magnitude higher than the measured totals.

Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
Name Version

PDF FILES

MS WORD - Form 1990 to 1997 (data years) individual tables can be presented as MS-Word files by commodity or country.

.TXT FILES - From 1985 to 1992 (data years) individual commodity tables can also be presented as .txt files, or edited to formatted text or MS-Word files.

PAPER

BOOKS - From 1913 to 1997 (data years) as annual books, or photocopies of parts thereof. Each book covers a 5-year run of statistics.

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/statistics/worldStatistics.html

BGS (Minerals UK) World Mineral Statistics Homepage

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC API - Features

https://ogcapi.bgs.ac.uk/collections/world-mineral-statistics

World Minerals Statistics OGC API - Features API

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

https://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/UKWM/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&

World Minerals Statistics (OGC WMS)

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WFS

https://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/UKWM/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&

World Minerals Statistics (OGC WFS)

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

The dataset has been compiled continuously since the year 1918 (statistics from 1913).

Metadata

File identifier
9df8df51-6332-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-06
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/13480180

 
 

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Keywords

MET4TECH UK Location (INSPIRE)


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