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.

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
Commerce
Mineral statistics
Ores
Statistics
Commodity economics
Mineral economics
Production
Exports

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

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

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WFS	http://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/UKWM/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&	WFS Service

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC API - Features	https://ogcapi.bgs.ac.uk/collections/world-mineral-statistics	World Minerals Statistics OGC API - Features API

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