{"id":"7c252223-9652-416d-9234-fa95cafddb7e","task":"Pull annual mineral commodity production/consumption statistics for a specific commodity","domain":"USGS National Minerals Information Center (Mineral Commodity Summaries)","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."],"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."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T15:30:36.418Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/7c252223-9652-416d-9234-fa95cafddb7e"}