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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| inventory & supply chain | LME/COMEX/SHFE registered warehouse stock reports, bonded warehouse operators in China, ICSG stock statistics, smelter concentrate and… | daily exchange warehouse stocks by location; monthly off-warrant and national… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | environmental regulators issuing IED/BAT permits (EU), state air/water permits (US), national industrial registries and company registers… | per installation/permit; per brand | public |
| employment & workforce | national statistics offices (SBS/Eurostat, US BLS QCEW), trade unions and collective-bargaining records, operator annual reports | annual headcount per NACE class per region; per-site headcount in company… | public |
| financial filings | listed producers (Aurubis, KGHM, Freeport, Boliden, Mitsubishi Materials) via SEC/ESEF filings, national business registers for private… | quarterly and annual per legal entity, some segment-level | public |
| incident/safety/claims | labour inspectorates (US OSHA/MSHA, EU national), operators' HSE systems, ICMM/Eurometaux member reporting, insurers underwriting smelter… | per incident; annual LTIFR/TRIFR per site or company | public |
| waste & emissions | EU E-PRTR / national PRTRs, US EPA TRI and GHGRP, EU ETS verified emissions registry (smelters are ETS installations), operator… | annual per installation per pollutant; annual per company for scope 1/2 | public |
| pricing | LME and COMEX/SHFE exchanges, Fastmarkets/Argus/Platts/CRU price reporting agencies, Refinitiv/Bloomberg terminals; annual treatment &… | per contract per trading day (intraday for exchange); weekly/monthly… | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | satellite imagery and thermal-anomaly analytics providers (Earth-i/SAVANT, Planet, Sentinel-2/Landsat via Copernicus), plus global smelter… | per smelter site, revisit every few days; asset-level capacity coordinates | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | customs authorities (via UN Comtrade, Eurostat Comext, China Customs), AIS vessel-tracking vendors (Kpler, Marine Traffic, Oceanbolt), bulk… | per shipment / bill of lading; per vessel voyage; monthly HS-code trade flows… | purchasable |
| production output | ICSG (International Copper Study Group), WBMS, USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, national statistics offices, plus smelter/refinery… | monthly national/regional aggregates in statistics; per-smelter quarterly in… | purchasable |
| energy consumption | smelter operators, national grid operators and utilities under supply contracts, EU ETS/energy-audit filings, IEA and industry benchmarking… | per-site continuous metering internally; annual site or per-tonne intensity in… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | operators' assay labs, independent inspectors/assayers (Alfred H Knight, SGS, Bureau Veritas) for concentrate lots, LME brand registration… | per concentrate lot / per cathode bundle assay; brand-level registry entries | partnership |
| transactional/sales | smelters/refiners and their trading arms, physical traders (Trafigura, Glencore, IXM), cathode consumers (wire rod mills); annual supply… | per contract / per shipment tonnage and premium | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | smelter and refinery operators' DCS/SCADA and historian systems (flash furnace temperatures, oxygen enrichment, converter blows, tankhouse… | sub-second to minute-level per sensor per furnace/cell | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | smelter operators' CMMS/SAP-PM records (furnace refractory campaign life, converter relines, anode furnace turnarounds), EPC and refractory… | per asset per work order; campaign-level per furnace | 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.