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
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WMS
- Date (Creation)
- 1918
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480180
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Imports
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Commerce
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Mineral statistics
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Ores
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Statistics
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Commodity economics
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Mineral economics
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Production
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Exports
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- dataCentre
- Keywords
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NERC_DDC
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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
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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
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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
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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WORLD [id=100000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Begin date
- 1913
- Supplemental Information
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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
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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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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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
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
http://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/UKWM/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities& WMS Service
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WFS
http://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/UKWM/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities& WFS Service
- OnLine resource
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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
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- No
- Statement
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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
- 2024-11-02
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Point of contact
- Dataset URI