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Good day Kbh3rd
== Open-sourcing the Fed graph ==

I appreciate the effort you went to in putting together that 'US Primary Copper Production' chart on the 'Copper mining in the United States' article on Misplaced Pages, as I have found it to be quite interesting. I have a question in relation to this chart, though.

Assuming you have a free moment, I was wondering if you could point me to where exactly you sourced the figures from in the USGS site?

I noticed on the chart that the source is named as being the United States Geological Survey, however, when I visited that site, I wasn't able to work out exactly where the annual copper production data is housed on the site.

If you could point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance for your attention,
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:I'm sure they changed that page and the location of the data in the several years since I made that chart. I'll look around this weekend and let you know if I can find the latest data.
::--]] 12:51, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
:Following the Commodities link on that page I found that has lots of documents. I don't yet see data there for the missing years prior to 2018, but more digging might turn up something. --]] 20:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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:According to the , to the Missouri Speleological Society who are the ones who do the counting and, in large part, the measuring, Meramec Caverns is only the 10th longest in the state at 4.5 miles. The longest is given as Crevice Cave at over 28 miles. --]] 22:12, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
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US Primary Copper Production Chart

Good day Kbh3rd

I appreciate the effort you went to in putting together that 'US Primary Copper Production' chart on the 'Copper mining in the United States' article on Misplaced Pages, as I have found it to be quite interesting. I have a question in relation to this chart, though.

Assuming you have a free moment, I was wondering if you could point me to where exactly you sourced the figures from in the USGS site?

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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