USGS critical minerals desk · Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
National mineral inventory, written as a twin.
Lithos surveys gravel, copper, aluminum, and precious-metal operators across the United States, binds USGS MCS 2026 to BEA industry accounts, and publishes a public census. Field crews report through a QR kit. Geologists open a 4D twin — ore location, workforce capacity, seismic — the same language MarAthena uses for vessel construction twins.
Nonfuel production 2025
$112B
+5.6% vs 2024
Metals / industrial
$38.1B / $73.7B
+13% metals · +2% industrial
Crushed stone
$26.8B
24% of nonfuel value
Downstream GDP
$4.09T
BEA value-added on mineral inputs
BEA mining value added
Metals vs industrial minerals, 2020–2025. Format matches BEA GDPByIndustry (VA) tables.
Live desk
Shared public census — no accounts required.
- Operator census
- 10,000
- Inventory surveys filed
- 0
- MIDS canvasses ingested
- 0
- QR field reports
- 0
- Published briefs
- 0
- Atlas mines
- 50
- Mapped on-site crew
- 39,220
- 100% import-reliant CML
- 16
- China as primary source
- 14 of 33
Focus commodities
Full MCS 2026 catalogConstruction sand & gravel
Industrial890million metric tons
Value $12.1B · import reliance 0%
Cement
Industrial91million metric tons
Value $16.2B · import reliance 18%
Copper
Critical 20251Kthousand metric tons
Value $11.1B · import reliance 45%
Aluminum
Critical 2025660thousand metric tons
Value $4.2B · import reliance 54%
Gold
Industrial230metric tons
Value $16.4B · import reliance 0%
Silver
Critical 2025980metric tons
Value $980M · import reliance 68%
10,000-operator census
Weighted to gravel and crushed stone — the actual U.S. mine count — plus copper, aluminum, and precious metals.
MIDS QR intake
Cement, copper, sand, gravel, and the GEO-5 twelve-line canvass. Scan a poster, calculated fields ingest to the census.
Public domain
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 is public domain. Lithos republishes inventory analyses as printable briefs.