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Mineral Accounts of the Philippines: Physical Asset Accounts by Resource, Class, Changes in Stock, and Year

Table ID: 3A5EPAM0

Indicator Physical Asset Accounts for Mineral Resources
Definition
The physical asset accounts for mineral resources provide information on the volume of nickel, gold, copper, and chromite of the country. It presents the stock at the beginning and end of each year as well as the changes recorded within the year. These changes in stock may be additions (such as discoveries, upward reappraisals, and reclassifications) or reductions (extractions, downward reappraisals, and reclassifications).
Mineral resources are categorized into three classes:
Class A - Commercially recoverable resources
Class B - Potentially commercially recoverable resources
Class C - Non-commercial and other known deposits
 
Method of Computation / Estimation Procedure Estimation procedure is documented in the Technical Report
 
Source of Basic Data Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Source Document/ Agency Philippine Statistics Authority
Frequency of Release Annual
Latest Available 2020
Level of Disaggregation National
Remarks The Mineral Accounts of the Philippines are environmental accounts regularly updated by the Environment and Natural Resources Accounts Division of the Philippine Statistics Authority. The accounts were initially developed through the Philippine Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (Phil-WAVES) project implemented from 2014 to 2017.
Contacts Environment and Natural Resources Accounts Division (ENRAD)
Philippine Statistics Authority
16/F Cyberpod Centris Three, EDSA cor Quezon Ave, Pinyahan, Quezon City
Tel:(+632) 8376-2041
enrad.staff@psa.gov.ph
General Information
Statistical Laws and Other Legal Provisions Philippine Statistical System (PSS) Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP) PSA Structure and Organization System of Designated Statistics Inventory of Statistical Standards in the Philippines Classification Systems
Specific Metadata
Open Data Product Agreement
Contact Information

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