Get BGS World Mineral Statistics items
Welcome to the World Mineral Statistics archive API. The British Geological Survey (BGS) and its predecessor organisations have compiled production and trade statistics on a wide range of mineral commodities since 1913. Currently this tool permits access to data from the World Mineral Statistics archive for the years 1970 to 2022. Prior to 1970 the data are available in PDF files which you can download for free from the main archive page. Selected data from 1960 are also available from the main archive as a static table in MS Excel. For certain commodities data are not available for all years, for example the BGS commenced collation of data for primary aggregates in 1998 and consequently there are no data for earlier years for this particular commodity. Trade data (imports and exports) are available for all countries up to 2002, and for selected European countries only from 2003 to 2018. Please ensure that you have read and understand our terms and conditions for the data.
Query parameters
The optional f parameter indicates the output format which the server shall provide as part of the response document. The default format is GeoJSON.
The optional lang parameter instructs the server return a response in a certain language, if supported. If the language is not among the available values, the Accept-Language header language will be used if it is supported. If the header is missing, the default server language is used. Note that providers may only support a single language (or often no language at all), that can be different from the server language. Language strings can be written in a complex (e.g. "fr-CA,fr;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7"), simple (e.g. "de") or locale-like (e.g. "de-CH" or "fr_BE") fashion.
Only features that have a geometry that intersects the bounding box are selected.The bounding box is provided as four or six numbers, depending on whether the coordinate reference system includes a vertical axis (height or depth).
The optional limit parameter limits the number of items that are presented in the response document (maximum=1000000, default=10).
Indicates the coordinate reference system for the results.
Indicates the coordinate reference system for the given bbox coordinates.
The properties that should be included. The parameter value is a comma-separated list of property names.
Additional "free-form" parameters that are not explicitly defined
This option can be used to skip response geometries for each feature.
The optional offset parameter indicates the index within the result set from which the server shall begin presenting results in the response document. The first element has an index of 0 (default).