Figure out how to map HS6 codes to mineral commodities

[shawnbot]

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[meiqimichelle]

Shawn sent email to Isabelle on Oct 2 with suggestions for mappings. Would be great to have Isabelle map the HS6 codes to ONRR's commodity groupings.

[shawnbot]

See also #605.

[meiqimichelle]

Testing @Isabelle1512 's shiney new GitHub account. Isabelle, did this notify you and can you reply back? This would be an example of a conversation that we can better track through issues here instead of email.

[Isabelle1512]

I'm in! down with email.

[shawnbot]

From @Isabelle1512 via email (emphasis mine):

I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you. Here are my thoughts, and Michelle, welcome your thoughts too because I think you know the DOI data better than I do.

First order of business: is the category non-energy minerals or hardrock minerals?

Either way, I think we can leave out 27. This category looks like all energy minerals/fossil fuels. Coal is not commonly thought of as a hardrock mineral.

I recommend we title it non-energy minerals and use 25 and 26.

As you point out, neither probably map perfectly to ONRR’s list of natural resources/commodities, but agree it’s better to footnote that then try and reconcile the data sets.

Here are the titles:

25: “Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement”
26: “Ores, slag, and ash”
27: “Mineral fuels, oils, waxes, and bituminous subs”

So @meiqimichelle, I'm going to rename this issue to capture the question of how we name the minerals group, which should tell us how to better map HS6 codes. Sound good, Isabelle?

[Isabelle1512]

Sounds good on renaming the issue. In general, I would vote for non-energy minerals, with hardrock minerals as a sub-category of non-energy minerals. Non-energy is best for the numerical data, but it gets tricky because there is a special process that is highly contested by civil society for how locatable hardrock minerals (not non-energy minerals) result in natural resources revenues (basically they are not leased, and the government doesn't collect royalties)

[shawnbot]

My inclination is to revisit this when we get to designing and building the Exports pages.

[meiqimichelle]

I believe this was resolved. Feel free to re-open if not.