Mineral Commodity Summaries

USGS's annual per-commodity datasheets - about two pages each for roughly 90 commodities - giving US and world production, imports, exports, apparent consumption, price, stocks, recycling and reserves for the five most recent complete years.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries - Aluminum — "Two pages per year per commodity; ~90 commodities per MCS volume". - USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - Silver - — "2-page PDF per year; roughly 30 numeric data points per edition". - USGS Silver Statistics and Information (hub) - (time coverage) — "terms_notes:".

USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - Silver - is the second reference point worth knowing: "2-page PDF per year; roughly 30 numeric data points per edition". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.

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: a source can carry the Mineral Commodity Summaries label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — Two pages per year per commodity; ~90 commodities per MCS volume. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

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 Mineral Commodity Summaries - Aluminum lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries - Aluminum and confirm its record — "Two pages per year per commodity; ~90 commodities per MCS volume" — against the files you actually receive. 2.

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