Diversified Metals & Mining Data: Prices, Production, Disclosures and Mine Records · Head-to-head
Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics vs SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings
Which diversified metals & mining data: prices, production, disclosures and mine records data fits your job: Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics, or SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics
SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics | SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings | |
|---|---|---|
| Entity identifier | geo naming the reporting country (DE, EU27_2020); nace_r2 naming the activity (B section total, B05 coal and lignite, B07 metal ores) | entityName with CIK and ticker (FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC, CIK 831259, FCX); sic 1000 Metal Mining |
| Period stamp | time (year or month: 2018, 2025-06) | reportDate and filingDate (period ended 2026-06-30, accepted 2026-08-06); start/end boundaries on tagged facts |
| Measured value | value keyed by the dimension combination (47,392 persons employed in German NACE B, 2018) | val carrying the tagged concept (us-gaap:Revenues, 7,029,000,000 for Q2 2026, frame CY2026Q2) |
| Activity classifier | NACE Rev. 2 section-and-division codes (B05 coal and lignite, B07 metal ores, B09 mining support) | sic / sicDescription (1000 Metal Mining and related codes) |
| Series identity | indic_sb and indic_bt indicator codes (V11110 enterprises, V16110 persons employed, V12120 production value, PRD production index) | us-gaap concept name plus Regulation S-K item tags (Item 2 Properties, Item 7 MD&A) |
| Measurement qualifiers | unit (I21 index 2021=100, PERS_EMP persons employed, MIO_EUR million euro) and s_adj seasonal-adjustment flag (NSA, SCA) | fy/fp fiscal year and period; tagging flags marking inline structured disclosure |
| Provenance | freq (A annual, M monthly) plus the parent dataset family (sbs_na_sca_r2, sbs_na_ind_r2, sts_inpr_m, sts_inpr_a) | accn, filed and frame keys tracing every fact back to its accession number |
What each does better
Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics
The whole sector, listed or not. Structural business statistics count every enterprise operating under NACE B05-B09 in each member state - unlisted quarries, state-owned salt works, mid-sized industrial-minerals producers - alongside the giants. EDGAR sees only issuers with US-registered securities, so most European operators never enter its frame.
A monthly pulse on output. Short-term statistics publish seasonally adjusted and unadjusted production volume indices with mining and quarrying as its own breakdown, observed through June 2026. Germany's NACE B index ran 66.4 in January 2025, recovered to 93.2 by June, and closed the year at 61.8 (2021=100) - a read on the sector no annual filing cycle can give you; see industrial production index.
Trade and output attached. COMEXT carries international trade in mineral products from 1988 and PRODCOM tracks manufactured output, so flows sit beside stocks in the same dimensional system rather than in a separate vendor's schema.
SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings
Names, mines and reserves. Item 2 Properties disclosures under Regulation S-K 1300 carry mineral reserves and resources, production volumes, capital spending and segment results by mine - see mineral reserves. No country aggregate can tell you what a specific operator holds in the ground.
Fact-level granularity. Twelve documented fields reduce to one number per concept per period per registrant: Freeport's second-quarter 2026 revenues print 7,029,000,000 under frame CY2026Q2, traced by accession number, and calendar frames aggregate one concept across all filers - 1,548 entities reported revenues in that quarter. See XBRL company facts.
Global miners, one register. Foreign private issuers file 20-F annual reports each spring plus hundreds of 6-K interim reports - Vale S.A. landed hers on 2026-03-27, 2025-03-28 and 2024-04-19 - while domestic producers file 10-Ks each February and 10-Qs quarterly; Freeport's landed 2026-08-06. Australian, British and Brazilian operators therefore sit in the same structured system as US ones.
Event texture and searchable text. 8-K event filings catch what periodic statistics cannot, and full-text coverage since 2001 locates phrases such as "SK 1300" across issuers. The 2026 second-quarter index alone runs 352,957 filing rows, 1,191 of them 10-Ks.
The verdict
Sample both, then pick by fit - the unit of analysis decides, not the leaderboard. Reach for Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics when the unit is a sector or a country: European demand models, cross-country benchmarking decks, energy-and-materials outlooks, or any study needing comparable extraction statistics across EU-27, EFTA and candidate countries. Reach for SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings when the unit is a company or a mine: equity research, reserve verification, peer comparisons, segment margin work, or event-driven monitoring of named producers.
Three quick tests settle most cases. Need a non-US producer's home-market context? Only Eurostat has the sector around it. Need a named company's audited numbers pinned to a filing date? Only EDGAR carries them. Building a thesis that pairs where European output is heading with how listed producers are responding? Neither wins alone - that is the both-of-them case, and it comes up constantly.
Sample both, pick by fit. See Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics · See SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings
Or take both in one feed
They stack into a top-down-plus-bottom-up workflow joined by geography, timing and nothing fancier. Frame the regime with Eurostat - German NACE B output sliding from an index of 118.1 in 2018 to 85.1 in 2025 (2021=100), headcount from 47,392 to 37,952 across 2018-2020 - then test how listed producers explain the same stretch in their own filings, from Vale's 20-F reserve statements to Freeport's quarterly segments. A procurement team can size the European supply base from structural statistics, then screen the named players that file; an investor can start from filings and use sector indices to sanity-check whether a weak quarter is the company or the continent.
Two practical notes from the records. Align periods before joining - one side publishes monthly and annual country aggregates on calendar periods, the other files on registrant fiscal calendars - and expect to map NACE activities to tickers yourself, because neither dictionary ships the bridge. Datadory ships either record alone or both normalized onto one calendar, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Or take both in one feed.
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Fair questions
Is Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics better than SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings?
Different instruments, tied on craft - both rate 9 out of 10. Eurostat wins whenever the question is a sector: European production indices, employment and production value under NACE Rev. 2 section B, comparable across EU-27, EFTA and candidate countries. EDGAR wins whenever the question is a company: Vale's 20-F reserve disclosures, Freeport's 7,029,000,000-dollar second-quarter 2026 revenues fact, mine-level detail under Regulation S-K 1300. Many desks keep both.
Do Eurostat mining statistics and SEC EDGAR mining filings cover the same ground?
Only at the edges. Both describe mining activity, but one reports country-level aggregates for every European operator while the other reports audited figures for companies with US-registered securities. A German NACE B employment count of 47,392 and a Freeport-McMoRan quarterly filing are answers to different questions that happen to share an industry.
Which dataset reaches further back in time?
It depends on the series you name. EDGAR's electronic archive starts in 1994/1995, with searchable text from 2001 and tagged facts from roughly 2009. Eurostat's COMEXT trade series start in 1988, structural business statistics begin in 2005, and production indices are observed through June 2026. European trade history belongs to Eurostat; company disclosure history belongs to EDGAR.
Can you identify individual companies in either dataset?
Only in EDGAR. Eurostat counts enterprises under NACE codes without naming them - 47,392 persons employed in German mining and quarrying, no employer listed. EDGAR resolves 10,387 tickers to registrants and ties every fact to an accession number, so a number can always be traced to the company that reported it and the filing that carried it.
Which one should a metals analyst sample first?
Sample both, pick by fit. Cross-country benchmarking, demand modelling and market sizing start with [Eurostat - Mining and Quarrying Statistics](/datasets/diversified-metals-mining/eurostat-mining-and-quarrying-statistics); equity research, reserve checks and peer comparisons start with [SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings](/datasets/diversified-metals-mining/sec-edgar-mining-company-filings). Ask for samples cut to your countries, NACE classes and registrants, and let the returned rows make the call.
Can Datadory deliver both datasets together?
Yes - alone or merged onto one delivery calendar, aligned on period and units so the join is done before it reaches you, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Name the countries, NACE classes and registrants when you request the sample and it lands pre-cut, with field definitions and coverage profiles attached. Or take both in one feed.