Minerals are big business in the United States! In 2015 alone, raw metals and domestically recycled materials were used to process mineral materials worth $630 billion. And that’s actually a *decrease* of 4% from the $659 billion they were worth in 2014.
Broken down even further, in 2015, 14 states each produced more than $2 billion worth of non-fuel mineral commodities, with Nevada, Arizona, andTexas leading the pack. Newcomers Wisconsin and Illinois joined the list in 2015.
Here at USGS, we track about 80 mineral commodities that are essential to the U.S. economy and national security. Every year, we release a snapshot of the global and domestic mineral industry with our Mineral Commodity Summaries. Read more: http://on.doi.gov/1nKCJCK
Image shows brown terraces in the Coeur Rochester mine of Nevada, one of the largest silver mines in the world. Credit: Alan Wallace, USGS.#USGS #Science #minerals #markets
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