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/SHFE/COMEX warehouse networks, bonded warehouses, producers' own stock ledgers | daily exchange warehouse stocks per metal per location; internal stocks per site | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | environmental regulators issuing IED/IPPC permits (EU member state agencies, US EPA/state permits), company registries | per installation permit document | public |
| employment & workforce | national statistics offices (SBS/Eurostat, BLS), trade unions, company sustainability reports | annual headcount and wages per NACE class per region; headcount per site in… | public |
| financial filings | listed producers' investor relations, national company registries, exchange filings | quarterly/annual per legal entity, sometimes per segment | public |
| incident/safety/claims | occupational safety regulators (OSHA, EU-OSHA/national inspectorates), Seveso major-accident reporting (eMARS), insurers | per incident report; annual injury rates per establishment | public |
| waste & emissions | E-PRTR/EU Industrial Emissions Portal, EU ETS registry, US EPA TRI and GHGRP, national pollutant inventories | annual per facility per pollutant; ETS verified CO2 per installation per year | public |
| production output | individual smelters/refiners, national statistics offices (PRODCOM, USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries/Yearbooks, China NBS), industry bodies… | monthly or annual tonnes per metal per country; per-plant capacity in… | public |
| pricing | LME and Shanghai Futures Exchange (nickel, tin, zinc, lead, cobalt), Fastmarkets/Argus/Platts/Asian Metal price reporting agencies for… | daily or twice-weekly assessment per metal grade, form and delivery basis | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | commercial asset-mapping vendors (S&P Global/CRU/Wood Mackenzie plant databases), satellite thermal-anomaly analytics firms (Earth-i… | per smelter site coordinates; per-site activity index at weekly/daily cadence | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | national customs authorities (UN Comtrade, Eurostat Comext, US Census), bills-of-lading vendors (Panjiva, ImportGenius, Kpler), shipping… | per shipment or monthly HS-code flows by origin/destination | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | consultancies tracking smelter capacity utilisation (CRU, Wood Mackenzie, Antaike), industry associations | monthly/quarterly utilisation rate per plant or country | purchasable |
| energy consumption | smelter operators, grid operators/utilities under interruptible-load contracts, national energy statistics agencies | site-level MWh per hour/day internally; sector-level annual in statistics | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | in-house metallurgical labs, third-party assayers/inspectors (SGS, Alfred H Knight, Bureau Veritas), LME brand-listing process | per lot/heat/cathode assay certificate | partnership |
| transactional/sales | producers and their traders (Glencore, Trafigura, Umicore, Nyrstar-type firms), metal merchants | per contract/shipment lot with grade and terms | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | plant operators via DCS/SCADA and historians (furnace temperatures, electrolysis cell voltages, off-gas analysers), automation vendors… | second- to minute-level per furnace/cell/line | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | plant reliability teams via CMMS (SAP PM, Maximo), furnace refractory lining suppliers, relining contractors | per asset per work order; campaign life per furnace/pot line | 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.