Pull annual mineral commodity production/consumption statistics for a specific commodity
domain: USGS National Minerals Information Center (Mineral Commodity Summaries) · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Go to the USGS Mineral Resources Program data & tools page and locate the National Minerals Information Center's commodity statistics section.
Identify the specific commodity's published dataset (Mineral Commodity Summaries, Minerals Yearbook chapter, or historical statistics CSV/XLS).
Download the structured data file rather than scraping the narrative PDF, since USGS publishes companion machine-readable tables for most commodities.
Match column headers to the commodity's unit conventions (metric tons vs. short tons) documented in the file's notes/footnotes.
Version-check the file against the current publication year, since prior-year figures are frequently revised in the next release.
Known gotchas
There is no live query API for these statistics; it is an annual/periodic static-file publication, so automation means scheduled re-download, not polling.
Historic time-series figures get restated in later editions — reconcile which vintage of the file a downstream report is using before comparing across years.
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