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Minerals Yearbook (with year and subject commodity or place)

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Minerals Information Team, U.S. Geological Survey

Publication_Date: Periodic

Title: Minerals Yearbook (with year and subject commodity or place)

Edition: Variable

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:

The USGS Minerals Yearbook geospatial data are State, national, or country boundary oriented. Data associated with States or countries are reported in tables.

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Minerals Yearbook

Issue_Identification:

Minerals Yearbook, Volume I, Metals and Minerals; Volume II, Area Reports: Domestic; and Volume III, Area Reports: International. Chapters for all volumes are published in paper format individually as annual Mineral Industry Surveys as they are completed, then collectively as Minerals Yearbooks. Chapters for all volumes are published in electronic format individually by commodity, State, or country under the name Minerals Yearbook.
The Minerals Yearbook titles include the year and the name of their subject. A commodity Minerals Yearbook includes the commodity name (e.g., Minerals Yearbook--Aluminum 1997). A country annual review includes the country name (e.g., Minerals Yearbook--Canada 1996). A State Minerals Yearbook includes the State name (e.g., Minerals Yearbook--California 1998). These Minerals Yearbook chapters are published electronically as they are completed. When the series of chapters is completed for a year, they are collectively published in paper format as a Minerals Yearbook.

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia, United States

Publisher:

U.S. Geological Survey for Mineral Industry Surveys Annual Reviews. U.S. Government Printing Office for Minerals Yearbook.

Online_Linkage: <http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/myb.html>

Description:

Abstract:

The Minerals Yearbook is an annual publication that reviews the mineral industry of the United States and foreign countries. It contains statistical data on materials and minerals and includes information on economic and technical trends and developments. The yearbook is published in three volumes: Volume I, Metals and Minerals; Volume II, Area Reports, Domestic; and Volume III, Area Reports, International.
Volume I metal and minerals chapters contain an untitled introduction, a statement on domestic data coverage, and an outlook section. Optional topics are: legislative and government programs, production, environment, consumption, stocks, transportation, prices, foreign trade, world review including individual country summaries if significant events occur, current research and technology, references, and sources of information.
Volume II State chapters contain State mineral production and rankings, significant industry events, and State legislation, and a State mineral- producing locality map. A statistical summary chapter and a directory of State Geologists and State minerals information personnel are also included in Volume II.
Volume III country chapters contain an untitled introduction and sections on government policies and programs, environmental issues, trade and production data, industry structure and ownership, commodity sector developments, infrastructures, and a summary outlook. Volume III also includes commodity reviews by metals, industrial minerals, and mineral fuels, and reserves.

Purpose: Monitor the minerals industry

Supplemental_Information:

The Minerals Yearbook publications are part of the core function of the minerals information activities transferred from the U.S. Bureau of Mines to the USGS in 1996. These publications are now the responsibility of the Minerals Information Team (MIT). The subjects of these publications cover commodities, countries, or States. A commodity report covers multiple countries; a country or State report, multiple commodities.
Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important to the U.S. economy. Chapters on survey methods, summary statistics for domestic nonfuel minerals, and trends in mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial minerals industries in the United States are included.
Volume I presents data on more than 80 metal and industrial mineral commodities obtained as a result of the information gathering activities of the U.S. Geological Survey. The staff of the Minerals Information Team performed the collection, compilation, and analysis of domestic mineral industry data. Statistical data were compiled from information supplied by commodity producers and consumers in response to canvasses. Information obtained from individual firms by means of the U.S. Geological Survey canvasses has been grouped to provide aggregated statistics. Data on individual firms are presented only if available from published or other nonproprietary sources or when permission of the respondent has been granted. The chapter on Survey Methods discusses in greater detail procedures for canvassing the minerals industry and the processing and evaluation of these data. Other information appearing in this volume is obtained from the trade and technical press, industry contacts, and additional sources. Statistics on world production were compiled from numerous sources, including reports from the U.S. Department of State. U.S. foreign trade data were obtained from reports of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. The U.S. Geological Survey also was assisted by numerous cooperating State agencies. This volume also contains a Statistical Summary chapter and a Mining and Quarrying Trends chapter. The Statistical Summary summarizes crude nonfuel mineral production for the United States, its island possessions, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico by geographic area. Mining and Quarrying Trends summarizes mining activity by type of mine (i.e., surface or underground), by type of production (i.e., metal or industrial mineral), by geographic area, and by commodity.
Volume II presents metal and nonfuel mineral data organized by State. It includes a chapter on the minerals industry of each of the 50 States and Puerto Rico and the Administered Islands. This volume also has survey methods and summary statistics chapters.
Volume III presents metal and fuel and nonfuel mineral data in four separate regional reports. Each region of the world is further subdivided into country chapters. These reports collectively contain the latest available mineral data on more than 190 foreign countries and discuss the performance of minerals in the economies of the nations. Each report begins with an overview of the region's mineral industries during the year. It continues with individual country chapters that examine the mining, refining, processing, and utilization of minerals in each country of the region and how they relate to U.S. industry. Most chapters include production and industry structure tables, information about Government policies and programs affecting the country's minerals industry, and an outlook section.
Report subjects have varied over the history of this publication. In the 1998 edition, commodities covered were: Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Asbestos, Barite, Bauxite, Beryllium, Bismuth, Boron, Bromine, Cadmium, Cement, Cesium, Chromium, Clays, Cobalt, Columbium (Niobium), Copper, Diamond, Diatomite, Feldspar, Ferroalloys, Fluorspar, Gallium, Garnet, Gemstones, Germanium, Gold, Graphite, Gypsum, Hafnium, Helium, Ilmenite, Indium, Iodine, Iron ore, Iron and steel, Iron and steel scrap, Iron and steel slag, Kyanite, Lead, Lime, Lithium, Magnesium metal, Magnesium compounds, Manganese, Mercury, Mica, Molybdenum, Nickel, Nitrogen, Peat, Perlite, Phosphate rock, Platinum-group metals, Potash, Pumice, Quartz, Rare-earths metals, Recycling-Metals, Rhenium, Rubidium, Rutile, Salt, Sand and gravel, Scandium, Selenium, Silicon, Silver, Soda ash, Sodium sulfate, Stone, Strontium, Sulfur, Talc, Tantalum, Tellurium, Thallium, Thorium, Tin, Titanium, Tungsten, Vanadium, Vermiculite, Yttrium, Zinc, and Zirconium.
The countries covered were as follows, grouped by international area (country name/Chapter Title): Africa and the Middle East (including Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasha) (formerly Zaire), Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, (The) Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco and Western Sahara, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, other countries of Africa (Benin, Burundi, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Reunion and Rwanda, Sao Tome e Principe, Somalia, and Sudan); Asia and the Pacific (including Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, (North) Korea, (Republic of) Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; Europe and Eurasia (including Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium and Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark and Greenland, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan; and Latin America and Canada (including Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, other islands of the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe and Martinique, Haiti, Montserrat, Netherlands, Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent, and the Grenadines), Panama, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Regular

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180

East_Bounding_Coordinate: +180

North_Bounding_Coordinate: +90

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -90

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Theme_Keyword: Statistics

Theme_Keyword: Minerals

Theme_Keyword: Metals

Theme_Keyword: Industrial

Theme_Keyword: Production

Theme_Keyword: Consumption

Theme_Keyword: Imports

Theme_Keyword: Exports

Theme_Keyword: Trade

Theme_Keyword: Stocks

Theme_Keyword: Abrasives

Theme_Keyword: Aluminum

Theme_Keyword: Antimony

Theme_Keyword: Arsenic

Theme_Keyword: Asbestos

Theme_Keyword: Barite

Theme_Keyword: Bauxite

Theme_Keyword: Alumina

Theme_Keyword: Beryllium

Theme_Keyword: Bismuth

Theme_Keyword: Boron

Theme_Keyword: Bromine

Theme_Keyword: Cadmium

Theme_Keyword: Cement

Theme_Keyword: Cesium

Theme_Keyword: Chromium

Theme_Keyword: Clays

Theme_Keyword: Cobalt

Theme_Keyword: Columbium

Theme_Keyword: Niobium

Theme_Keyword: Copper

Theme_Keyword: Diamond

Theme_Keyword: Diatomite

Theme_Keyword: Feldspar

Theme_Keyword: Fluorspar

Theme_Keyword: Gallium

Theme_Keyword: Garnet

Theme_Keyword: Gemstones

Theme_Keyword: Germanium

Theme_Keyword: Gold

Theme_Keyword: Graphite

Theme_Keyword: Gypsum

Theme_Keyword: Helium

Theme_Keyword: Ilmenite

Theme_Keyword: Indium

Theme_Keyword: Iodine

Theme_Keyword: Iron

Theme_Keyword: Iron ore

Theme_Keyword: Steel

Theme_Keyword: Iron and steel scrap

Theme_Keyword: Iron and steel slag

Theme_Keyword: Kyanite

Theme_Keyword: Lead

Theme_Keyword: Lime

Theme_Keyword: Lithium

Theme_Keyword: Magnesium

Theme_Keyword: Manganese

Theme_Keyword: Mercury

Theme_Keyword: Mica

Theme_Keyword: Molybdenum

Theme_Keyword: Nickel

Theme_Keyword: Nitrogen

Theme_Keyword: Peat

Theme_Keyword: Perlite

Theme_Keyword: Phosphate rock

Theme_Keyword: Platinum-group metals

Theme_Keyword: Potash

Theme_Keyword: Pumice

Theme_Keyword: Quartz

Theme_Keyword: Rare-earths

Theme_Keyword: Rhenium

Theme_Keyword: Rubidium

Theme_Keyword: Rutile

Theme_Keyword: Salt

Theme_Keyword: Sand and gravel

Theme_Keyword: Scandium

Theme_Keyword: Selenium

Theme_Keyword: Silicon

Theme_Keyword: Silver

Theme_Keyword: Soda ash

Theme_Keyword: Sodium sulfate

Theme_Keyword: Stone

Theme_Keyword: Strontium

Theme_Keyword: Sulfur

Theme_Keyword: Talc

Theme_Keyword: Tantalum

Theme_Keyword: Tellurium

Theme_Keyword: Thallium

Theme_Keyword: Thorium

Theme_Keyword: Tin

Theme_Keyword: Titanium

Theme_Keyword: Tungsten

Theme_Keyword: Vanadium

Theme_Keyword: Vermiculite

Theme_Keyword: Yttrium

Theme_Keyword: Zinc

Theme_Keyword: Zirconium

Theme_Keyword: Hafnium

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword:

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Africa Middle East Algeria Angola Bahrain Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Zaire Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (Kinshasha) Cote d'Ivoire Cyprus Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Guinea Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kenya Kuwait Lebanon Libya Madagascar Mali Mauritania Morocco Western Sahara Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Syria Tanzania Togo Tunisia Turkey Uganda United Arab Emirates Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Benin Burundi Cape Verde Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Lesotho Liberia Malawi Mauritius Reunion Rwanda Sao Tome e Principe Somalia Sudan Asia Pacific Afghanistan Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma Cambodia China Fiji India Indonesia Japan (North) Korea (Republic of) Korea Laos Malaysia Mongolia Nepal New Caledonia New Zealand Pakistan Papua New Guinea Philippines Singapore Taiwan Thailand Vietnam Europe Eurasia Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Greenland Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Luxembourg Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine United Kingdom Uzbekistan Latin America Canada Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador French Guiana Guatemala Guyana Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Caribbean Antigua Barbuda Bahamas Dominica Barbados Bermuda Grenada Guadeloupe Martinique Haiti Montserrat Netherlands Antilles Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent Grenadines Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela

Place:

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Place_Keyword: LD10 = North America

Place_Keyword: LD20 = Central America

Place_Keyword: LD30 = South America

Place_Keyword: LD40 = Europe

Place_Keyword: LD50 = Africa

Place_Keyword: LD60 = Australia and New Zealand

Place_Keyword: LD70 = Asia

Place_Keyword: LD80 = Asia Minor and Middle East

Place_Keyword: LD90 = Southeast Asia

Place_Keyword: AY = Antarctica

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Gateway to the Earth (USGS) draft 6

Theme_Keyword: digital text format

Theme_Keyword: yearbooks

Theme_Keyword: commodity summaries

Theme_Keyword: mineral resources

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories

Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation

Access_Constraints: Unrestricted

Use_Constraints: Unrestricted

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Minerals Information Team

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing

Address: 988 National Center

City: Reston

State_or_Province: VA

Postal_Code: 20192

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-703-684-4000

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

Superintendent of Documents U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402

Contact_Position: Superintendent of Documents

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing

Address: U.S. Government Printing Office

City: Washington

State_or_Province: D.C.

Postal_Code: 20402

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-703-648-4000

Distribution_Liability:

The U.S. Department of the Interior provides no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20001108

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Minerals Information Team

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing

Address: 988 National Center

City: Reston

State_or_Province: VA

Postal_Code: 20192

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-703-648-4000

Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998