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U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center — Mineral Commodity Summaries

Headquarters: Reston, VA
Founded: USGS created by act of Congress in 1879
Funding: Annual congressional appropriations through the Department of the Interior, whose science arm the USGS is. Recent presidential budget requests were near $1.8 billion for fiscal 2024 and $1.7 billion for 2023; enacted figures are not on the budget page read.
Governance: A bureau of the Department of the Interior, led by a USGS Director.
Published: Annual, covering more than 90 mineral commodities.
Licence: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal public-domain dedication on the official ScienceBase data release. SPHRE nevertheless credits USGS and links the data and report DOIs.