usgs_mcs_2026commodityOfficial surveyAuthoritative

USGS MCS 2026

USGS

critical-list commodities × structured long-format; Production, Shipment

Source

How it's published

Feed (what to expect)

Annual USGS MCS (January release); re-vendor each year's commodity tables.

Cadence: annual (January release)
Access: free ScienceBase download via API; DOI 10.5066/P1WKQ63T
Format: CSV bundle: Commodities_Data + Tables (T4/T5/T6/T7) + Figures (NIR, import
Licence: public domain
Vintage: 2026
Upstream: https://doi.org/10.5066/P1WKQ63T

Quirks

Windows-1252 mojibake in UTF-8 stream; parser detects U+FFFD and warns; use UTF-8
MCS{year}_Mineral_Industry_Trends_and_Salient_Statistics/ subdirectory duplicates

Successor to wide-format MCS World Data; long-format enables direct

Reconciliation

Schema

Feeds (axes)

SupplyDemandTradePricingRecycling

Record kinds

SupplyRecordConsumptionRecordPriceRecordPriceTrendNetImportRelianceBilateralImportShareExportRestrictionTradeAgreementScrapSupplyConsumptionChange

Identifier schemes

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