Glossary
mineral commodity statistics
mineral commodity statistics is annual government statistics on production. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, USGS National Minerals Information Center: Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook and chemical raw materials covered: soda ash, salt, sulfur, potash, phosphate rock, nitrogen are working examples.
What is mineral commodity statistics?
Annual government statistics on production, consumption, stocks, prices, trade and reserves for mineral commodities that serve as chemical-industry feedstocks, including soda ash, salt, sulfur, potash and phosphate rock.
USGS issues them as free PDF/XLSX downloads in five-year-window editions plus long-run Yearbook series.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - USGS National Minerals Information Center: Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook. - chemical raw materials covered: soda ash, salt, sulfur, potash, phosphate rock, nitrogen. - measures: production, consumption, stocks, prices, trade and reserves; ~91 commodity PDF chapters per MCS edition.
Why does mineral commodity statistics matter when choosing a dataset?
A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and USGS National Minerals Information Center: Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate mineral commodity statistics in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open USGS National Minerals Information Center: Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
- Open chemical raw materials covered: soda ash, salt, sulfur, potash, phosphate rock, nitrogen and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
- Open measures: production, consumption, stocks, prices, trade and reserves; ~91 commodity PDF chapters per MCS edition and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
See the term applied to real records: diversified-chemicals data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - commercial delivery terms government license - trade association statistics
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of mineral commodity statistics?
USGS National Minerals Information Center: Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook is the clearest example in this catalog. Its listing is the reference point for this pattern. Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "mineral commodity statistics" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides mineral commodity statistics?
Open USGS National Minerals Information Center: Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook next to chemical raw materials covered: soda ash, salt, sulfur, potash, phosphate rock, nitrogen and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing mineral commodity statistics
6 datasets carry mineral commodity statistics in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
American Chemistry Council — Resin Production & Sales Statistics
end_use_segment · report_series · capacity_volume …+3 more
Apify — ECHEMI Scraper (Chemical B2B Marketplace)
listing_reference · storefront_reference · company_type …+2 more
BASF-AI Chemical Data Collection (Hugging Face)
Synonyms · Description · Paper metadata columns …+2 more
Cefic — Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry
Decoded series labels · Extended partner-country trade breakouts · Price, productivity, volume and value-added panel …+1 more
chemicalparks.eu — European Chemical Parks & Clusters Database
Infrastructure flags · Land-status attributes · Contact …+1 more
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