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USGS Minerals Yearbook (platinum-group metals)

USGS National Minerals Information Center

world mine production by country and element (Pd/Pt/Ir/Rh/Ru), 2017-2021

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How it's published

Feed (what to expect)

Annual PGM chapter XLSX off stable pubs.usgs.gov URL; live-fetched, ~12-18mo lag.

Cadence: annual chapter; ~12-18 month lag from reporting year
Access: free XLSX download from pubs.usgs.gov/myb/vol1/<year>/ stable URL pattern
Format: XLSX (single metal-sectioned world-production table)
Licence: public_domain
Vintage: rolling
Upstream: https://pubs.usgs.gov/myb/vol1/2021/myb1-2021-platinum-group.xlsx

Quirks

Metal-sectioned Table 5: '<Element>:' headers switch commodity, country rows beneath
Authoritative by-country source for Rh/Ir/Ru, which USGS MCS does not break out

Dedicated parser; MCS covers only Pt/Pd by country, so the minor PGMs need this

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