Company & Industry Research

The USGS National Minerals Information Center is a great starting point for links to the many resources of the United States Geological Survey. Some of the most relevant are listed and linked below.

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025
Includes information on events, trends, and issues for each mineral commodity as well as discussions and tabular presentations on domestic industry structure, government programs, tariffs, 5-year salient statistics, and world production, reserves, and resources. More than 90 individual minerals and materials are covered.

Mineral Industry Survey 
Periodic online statistical and economic publications designed to provide timely statistical data on production, distribution, stocks, and consumption of significant mineral commodities.  These publications are issued monthly, quarterly, or annually.

Minerals Yearbook

• Volume I - Metals and Minerals - This volume, covering metals and minerals, contains chapters on approximately 90 commodities. In addition, this volume has chapters on mining and quarrying trends and on statistical surveying methods, plus a statistical summary.
• Volume II - Area Reports: Domestic - This volume reviews the U.S. mineral industry by state and Island possessions. It presents salient statistics on production, consumption, and other pertinent data for each state and is prepared in cooperation with State Geological Surveys or related agencies.
• Volume III - Area Reports: International - This volume of the Minerals Yearbook provides an annual review of mineral production and trade and of mineral-related government and industry developments in more than 175 foreign countries. Each report includes sections on government policies and programs, environmental issues, trade and production data, industry structure and ownership, commodity sector developments, infrastructure, and a summary outlook.

U.S. Energy Information Administration
Provides data on the production and consumption of energy in the United States, including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and renewables.

USA Trade Online
Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, USA Trade Online is a dynamic data tool that gives users access to current and cumulative U.S. export and import data with multiple data sets and capabilities.

USITC Dataweb
Provides U.S. merchandise trade and tariff data in a user-friendly web interface. Trade data for 1989 to the present are available on a monthly, quarterly, annual, or year-to-date basis and can be retrieved using a sophisticated querying tool with features such as user defined country and commodity groups. Users must establish a free account to access this database.

IEA  
The International Energy Agency has links to many datasets and publications with data and information on energy production and consumption throughout the world. This includes the agency’s flagship publication, World Energy Outlook. Most IEA publications and data are accessible without charge, although a few IEA datasets do require licenses and customers must pay for these.

ITC Trade Map 
The International Trade Centre is a joint agency of the WTO and the UN. The Trade Map covers 220 countries and territories and 5300 products of the Harmonized system.

UN Comtrade 
The United Nations Comtrade database aggregates detailed global annual and monthly trade statistics by product and trading partner for use by governments, academia, research institutes, and enterprises. Data compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division covers approximately 200 countries and represents more than 99% of the world's merchandise trade. Information can be extracted in a variety of formats, including API developer tools for integration into enterprise applications and workflows.