What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National and state mining cadastres and mineral title registries, environmental permitting authorities, e.g. US BLM/state agencies, EU… | Per concession/licence/permit, with holder, area polygon, validity dates | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices and mine regulators (MSHA employment reporting), company reports, mining industry associations | Per mine quarterly employee/hours worked; national sector aggregates monthly | public |
| financial filings | Listed producers' annual/quarterly reports and technical reports (NI 43-101, JORC), securities regulators (SEC EDGAR, SEDAR), company… | Per company per quarter/year; reserve and resource statements per property | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Mine safety regulators (US MSHA, national labour inspectorates), company sustainability reports, ICMM member disclosures | Per incident/injury report per mine; annual LTIFR per operation | public |
| waste & emissions | Environmental regulators (US EPA TRI/GHGRP, E-PRTR in Europe), tailings dam disclosure databases (Global Tailings Portal), operators' ESG… | Per facility per year for releases and transfers; per tailings facility for… | public |
| production output | Mining operators (e.g. Mosaic, Nutrien, ICL, OCP), national geological surveys and statistical agencies (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries… | Per mine/site monthly or quarterly at company level; annual national aggregates… | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies (Argus, CRU, Profercy, Fastmarkets, ICIS), World Bank Pink Sheet, exchange-listed fertiliser indices | Weekly/monthly benchmark price assessments per product grade and FOB/CFR… | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Producers and traders, port stockpile surveys, IFA/CRU supply-demand balances, importer country stock reports (e.g. India DoF, China… | Per site/warehouse stockpile tonnes monthly; port stock estimates weekly | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Geological surveys and mine-cadastre GIS portals; satellite imagery/remote-sensing vendors (Planet, Maxar, Sentinel Hub) and… | Per mine footprint polygon; imagery revisit per few days per site | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Port authorities and customs agencies (UN Comtrade, Eurostat COMEXT, US Census trade data), AIS vessel-tracking vendors (Kpler, Refinitiv… | Per shipment/vessel call; monthly HS-code trade flows by country pair | purchasable |
| energy consumption | Operators (large industrial electricity and gas accounts), utilities, national energy statistics agencies, ESG disclosures | Per site monthly/annual GJ and kWh; national mining-sector energy balances… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Operators' assay labs and independent inspection/testing firms (SGS, Bureau Veritas, Intertek), buyer QC labs | Per drill core sample, per production lot, per shipment certificate of analysis… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Producers and their marketing arms (Canpotex, OCP), fertiliser distributors and traders; partially reflected in customs transaction records | Per contract/cargo with volume, grade, destination | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Mine operators via SCADA, fleet management and beneficiation plant control systems; OEM/vendor platforms (Caterpillar MineStar, Komatsu… | Second-to-minute level per machine, conveyor, pump, flotation cell | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' EAM/CMMS systems (SAP PM, Maximo), equipment OEM service organisations, tailings dam monitoring consultants | Per work order, per asset; per piezometer/inclinometer reading for dams | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.