Bauxite Reserves and Production India: Where the Data Lives

One publisher owns this beat: Indian Bureau of Mines - bauxite/aluminium statistics, run by the Indian Bureau of Mines (Ministry of Mines). It bundles the three things a bauxite analyst needs: the Indian Minerals Yearbook (IMYB) carrying state-level bauxite reserves and production, the National Mineral Inventory (NMI) of mineral deposits, and monthly Average Sale Price (ASP) reports for minerals and metals.

The scale is unusual for a national statistics program. IMYB 2024 alone runs roughly 680 PDF pages, and yearbook editions are observed from at least 2015 through 2024 — a decade-plus of comparable annual volumes. Datadory scores the record at quality 6; inside it, the reserves and production tables carry annual grain while the ASP series runs at monthly grain.

The NMI is the deposit-level layer beneath the yearbook totals. It covers 64 minerals and more than 13,000 deposits, has been maintained since 1970, and carries UNFC stock dates — 1.4.2020 appears as a reference date in the cataloged coverage notes. Breakdowns run down to state level, which is the grain most sourcing and logistics questions are actually asked at.

Grain differs by product line, and mixing them corrupts a time series: sale prices run at monthly grain, yearbook production and reserves statistics at annual grain, and NMI stock positions sit on multi-year UNFC reference dates. On definitions, bauxite reserves mean estimated remaining quantities of ore available for extraction — the bauxite reserves entry in our glossary contrasts India's UNFC-dated inventory with USGS's annual national reserve estimates.

One caveat ships inside the documents themselves: the yearbook disclaimer states the data are compiled from multiple sources, sometimes used as-is, and readers should exercise discretion before further use.

To benchmark India against anyone else you need a second publisher, and two USGS sources carry India inside world tables. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries - Aluminum is the fast read: a two-page datasheet issued each January whose salient table holds the five most recent complete years — 2020–2024e in the January 2025 edition — across US and world production, trade, apparent consumption, price, stocks and reserves, with world smelter production and capacity listed for 13 major producing countries. Estimates carry an 'e' flag and revisions an 'r'.

The practical split: IBM tells you how much bauxite sits in which Indian state; USGS tells you where India ranks among the 13 countries named in the world production table.

Formats differ more than definitions do. IBM ships PDF only — IMYB 2024 is roughly 680 pages — so state-level reserves and production tables arrive as typeset pages, while USGS pairs its PDFs with an XLSX volume-level data release, which keeps tabular pipelines shorter on the American side. Rounding conventions match across both: figures carry no more than three significant digits and may not add to totals, so reconcile on the country or state row, never on the sum. Our ranked list of aluminum datasets screens the whole industry side by side.

A repeatable extraction path looks like this:

If your frame is worldwide monthly output rather than Indian geology, International Aluminium Institute Statistics is the complementary supply-side series — ten reporting areas, monthly, generally from January 1973.

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