MapServer Message
This is a subset of the BGS World Mineral statistics database created as a contribution towards the EU funded GeoERA Mintell4EU project and feeds into the electronic European Minerals Yearbook (e-MYB). Data is provided for 40 European countries, namely: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia (TFYR of), Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Data is provided from 2004 to (currently) 2019, but will update annually. Production and Trade (Imports and Exports) data is available, for countries where it is available.
Trust score
How is this computed?Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).
- Officialnessweight 25%50/100
Not public-sector → neutral score; not subject to the proof checker.
- Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
- Metadata completenessweight 20%40/100
4 of 10 recommended metadata fields populated.
- License clarityweight 15%50/100
License info not yet tracked for APIs (datasets only).
- Agent readinessweight 15%10/100
Topic tags assigned
Data access
This entry links to a dataset, file download, or documentation page rather than a self-describing API, so there's no field schema to display.
Verification Status
Using the API
Configuration
- Base URL
- https://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mintell/ows
Query examples
curl -s 'https://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mintell/ows' -H 'Accept: application/json'Base API endpoint — see the documentation for available routes.