U.S. Geological Survey

USGS National Minerals Information Center, Mineral Commodity Summaries

Approved with attribution

U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries

Ingested45 days agofresh

Metrics fed

Observations stored

571

Last successful ingestion

2026-09-07 22:02 UTC

Expected cadence

annual (Mineral Commodity Summaries each January or February, data release a few weeks later)

stale after 400 days

Source record

Dataset and terms

Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Dataset: USGS National Minerals Information Center, Mineral Commodity Summaries
Homepage: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center
Documentation: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/commodity-statistics-and-information
Terms of use: https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits
License status: Approved with attribution
Attribution: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries
Geographic coverage: not recorded
Temporal coverage: not recorded
Update cadence: annual (Mineral Commodity Summaries each January or February, data release a few weeks later)
Revision policy: not recorded
Authentication: No API key required. Data are published as annual CSV data releases on ScienceBase (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T for 2026), not a query API. USGS products are in the public domain as works of the United States Government.
Rate limits: Not applicable; one 3.2 MB CSV downloaded per release and cached locally for a week.
Record updated: 2026-09-15 01:39 UTC

Fed by this source

Ingestion log

Started (UTC)	Status	Duration	Rows seen	Written	Parser	Error summary
2026-09-07 22:01 UTC	success	13.0 s	635	0	usgs-mcs/1.0.0	none
2026-09-07 20:15 UTC	success	6.8 s	635	0	usgs-mcs/1.0.0	none
2026-09-07 19:57 UTC	success	7.5 s	635	571	usgs-mcs/1.0.0	none