Precious Metals & Minerals Data Provider · Head-to-head
Indian Bureau of Mines Statistics vs MetalpriceAPI.com Metals Price API
Which precious metals & minerals data provider data fits your job: Indian Bureau of Mines statistics, or MetalpriceAPI.com metals price API. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Indian Bureau of Mines statistics
MetalpriceAPI.com metals price API
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | Indian Bureau of Mines statistics | MetalpriceAPI.com metals price API |
|---|---|---|
State/District | Indian state or district row key used across the production, reserves and lease tables - the geography spine of every review. | not in this set |
Ore Produced | Quantity of metal ore produced in tonnes for the reference year, reported in Table 3 of each metal review. | not in this set |
Avg. Grade (gram/tonne) | Average grade of ore produced or treated, in grams per tonne - the yield column that turns tonnage into metal content. | not in this set |
Quantity (kg) | Metal production quantity in kilograms, split by state, sector or district. | not in this set |
Value (Rs '000) | Production value in thousands of Indian rupees corresponding to each quantity column. | not in this set |
Total Reserves / Remaining Resources (A/B/A+B) | UNFC-classified reserves and remaining resources in tonnes of metal content, as on the National Mineral Inventory cut-off date. | not in this set |
No. of Mines | Count of reporting mines behind a mineral/state/year cell. | not in this set |
ASP (Rs/unit) | Average Sale Price used for royalty computation, by mineral, grade and state monthly, or by metal on an annual basis. | not in this set |
Source | Price source cited on an ASP row so every benchmarked price carries its provenance. | not in this set |
success | not in this set | True when a lookup succeeded; false travels beside an error code and an explanatory message. |
timestamp | not in this set | Unix epoch time of the rate snapshot. |
base | not in this set | Currency the rates are expressed against. |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| Indian Bureau of Mines statistics | MetalpriceAPI.com metals price API | |
|---|---|---|
| Entity identifier | State/District row key (Karnataka, Rajasthan) plus mineral and public/private sector labels across yearbook and monthly tables | Symbol key in the rates object (XAU with USDXAU as the reciprocal) plus the base currency stamping each response |
| Period stamp | Indian fiscal years and months (2023-24 (P), May 2026); stated cut-off dates on resource tables (as on 01.04.2020) | Unix epoch timestamp per snapshot; explicit date keys on historical and range queries |
| Measured value | Quantity (kg) with Value (Rs '000) alongside - 1,603 kg of primary gold worth 9,670,820 thousand rupees in 2023-24 | rates values such as XAU 0.00053853 per USD, plus the converted result and percentage-change fields |
| Unit qualifiers | Explicit column units: Ore Produced in tonnes, Avg. Grade in gram/tonne, ASP in rupees per unit | Orientation of the rate (metal units per currency, or the USDXAU reciprocal) and per-troy-ounce versus per-standard-ounce quoting |
| Series identity | Table numbers inside named reviews (IMYB 2024 Table 5, MSMP May 2026 Table 3) with mineral names as series keys | Query-type identity (latest, historical, timeframe, ohlc, convert, change, carat) plus the symbol catalogue entry |
| Quote-side qualifiers | ASP Source column citing the basis for each price row (LBMA, LME, USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, Shanghai Metals Market) | Bid and ask variants separating the two sides of the quote; a success flag guarding each response |
| Shared concepts | Gold, silver, platinum and palladium appear on both sides - once as kilograms produced by geography, once as rates per troy ounce | Those four plus rhodium, 15+ industrial metals, crypto and energy - as symbols, never as production records |
| Join keys | Period keys and mineral names | Symbols, base currency and timestamps; bridging runs through the shared metal names |
What each does better
Indian Bureau of Mines statistics
Reserves on the UNFC system. Total Reserves and Remaining Resources are tabulated by state as on a stated cut-off date - platinum-group-metal resources of 20.92 tonnes concentrated in Odisha as on 01.04.2020 - giving exploration and policy desks a national endowment picture no quote stream can produce.
Rupee-native economics. Every quantity ships beside its value in thousands of rupees - 1,603 kg of primary gold worth 9,670,820 thousand rupees works out to roughly 60 lakh per kilogram - so margin arithmetic runs in the currency the Indian market actually settles in, with no FX layer bolted on.
the MetalpriceAPI metals price API
Breadth past the big four. Rhodium (XRH) sits beside gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and fifteen-plus industrial metals - gallium, indium, neodymium, tellurium and uranium among them - share the same symbol space as cryptocurrencies, energy and 150+ currencies. One pull covers metals, FX and beyond, where the yearbook covers India's mines alone.
City-level India granularity. India Gold and India Silver symbols for more than 25 cities - Ahmedabad through Ludhiana and beyond - give retail pricing a geography of its own. Set against IBM's state production map, the two halves of the Indian trade reveal themselves: where metal is dug and where it is sold.
History shaped for applications. Single-date lookups, yesterday snapshots, hour-grain windows, daily archives and range queries capped at 365 days per call, with minute-grain records reaching back to April 2026 - a depth ladder sized to everything from a chart widget to a research backtest.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit - they are different instruments pointed at the same metal.
Accept document-born structure: the underlying publications are long-form volumes, so lean on Datadory's normalization doing the parsing for you.
Accept rate-only scope: nothing in it says a tonne was mined, or where.
If the question starts with 'how much was mined, and where' - the Indian Bureau of Mines.
Sample both, pick by fit. See Indian Bureau of Mines statistics · See MetalpriceAPI.com metals price API
Or take both in one feed
A first-pass valuation of Indian output: take IBM's production table - say Rajasthan's 745,830 kg of silver recovered at the Chanderia smelter - multiply against a MetalpriceAPI rate for XAG expressed in rupees (any base currency works), and you hold a first estimate of contained-metal value by state. Run the same arithmetic on Karnataka's gold and India's producing geography ranks by market value rather than raw kilograms.
Two cautions from the records. Second, mind the currency seam: production values are in rupees while rate defaults often quote in dollars, so convert one side explicitly instead of letting the join mix units silently.
Or take both in one feed: Datadory delivers them alongside the rest of the precious metals & minerals catalog, normalized to one schema, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call.
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Fair questions
Which dataset reaches further back?
It depends on which series you name. IBM's monthly production issues run from 2013 and yearbook editions from 2015, with the 2024 edition carrying data year 2023-24. MetalpriceAPI offers historical daily rates, hour-grain windows and minute-grain records from April 2026, with range queries capped at 365 days per call. Deep Indian institutional history belongs to IBM; dense recent rate history belongs to MetalpriceAPI.
Which one should a bullion analyst sample first?
Sample both, pick by fit. Supply-side work - production by state, reserves, domestic value - starts with [Indian Bureau of Mines statistics](/datasets/precious-metals-minerals/indian-bureau-of-mines-statistics-indian-minerals-yearbook-m). Ask for samples cut to your states, metals and symbols, 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 currency so the join is done before it reaches you, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Name the states, metals and symbols when you request the sample and it lands pre-cut, with field definitions and coverage profiles attached. Or take both in one feed.