Glossary
mineral reserves
mineral reserves is estimated in-ground metal that can be economically extracted, reported by country in USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries and per asset in Mining Data Online. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries and Indian Bureau of Mines statistics are working examples.
What is mineral reserves?
Estimated in-ground metal that can be economically extracted, reported by country in USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries and per asset in Mining Data Online.
Distinct from official central bank gold reserves, which are metal already mined and held.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries — "world reserves by country in each two-page commodity chapter". - Indian Bureau of Mines statistics — "reserves tables in the Indian Minerals Yearbook". - Mining Data Online — "reserves and resources per operating mine and advanced project".
Why does mineral reserves matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the mineral reserves label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — world reserves by country in each two-page commodity chapter. 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 lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate mineral reserves in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries and confirm its record — "world reserves by country in each two-page commodity chapter" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open Indian Bureau of Mines statistics and confirm its record — "reserves tables in the Indian Minerals Yearbook" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open Mining Data Online and confirm its record — "reserves and resources per operating mine and advanced project" — against the files you actually receive.
See the term applied to real records: precious-metals-minerals data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - central bank gold reserves - deposit database record - mine production
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of mineral reserves?
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "world reserves by country in each two-page commodity chapter". 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 reserves" 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 reserves?
Open USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries next to Indian Bureau of Mines statistics 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 reserves
6 datasets carry mineral reserves in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
BGS MineralsUK: UK and World Mineral Statistics
synthetic_id · year · yearbook_table_id …+13 more
BullionStar Gold Price and Historical Data: Singapore Bullion Exchange Prices
fromIndex · toIndex · dataSeries …+9 more
Indian Bureau of Mines statistics: Indian Minerals Yearbook & mineral production
State/District · Ore Produced · Avg. Grade (gram/tonne) …+6 more
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