Industry vertical

Mining

Companies engaged in the exploration, extraction, and processing of metals, minerals, and other natural resources from the earth.

84 providers 103 APIs 11 enterprise adopters

Mining on the APIs.io network indexes 84 providers publishing 103 APIs across this industry vertical.

Notable providers include Benchmark Minerals, Bureau of Land Management, Caterpillar, CAT, Monero, United States Steel, and 78 more — each profile links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.

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About this industry

Companies engaged in the exploration, extraction, and processing of metals, minerals, and other natural resources from the earth. Membership is computed from every provider in the catalog whose tags match this vertical — 84 at the last build — rather than from a fixed list. API Evangelist research additionally tracks 3 sub-sectors within it: Metals & Mineral Extraction, Iron Ore & Base Metals, and Precious Metals & Copper.

Market demand

Providers above are the supply side. This is the demand side — enterprises adopting API & AI technology in this vertical, drawn from API Evangelist Insights. Names and maturity are enterprise-scoped; they don't overlap with the provider catalog.

11enterprises adopting

#29 / 50adoption maturity rank

Statefulnessstrongest layer

Customization & Adaptationweakest layer

Leading adopters

Newmont185A-Mark Precious Metals169Arch Resources94Reliance, Inc.91Commercial Metals Company88Alcoa86BHP69Albemarle54Kaiser Aluminum32Rio Tinto18Cleveland-Cliffs11

AI & API adoption maturity

Mean adoption intensity across the enterprises above, by capability layer — how this vertical is maturing, from foundational models through governance and FinOps.

Statefulness

41.2

Economics & Sustainability

33.2

Foundational Layer

29.2

Governance & Risk

27.0

Retrieval & Grounding

24.8

Efficiency & Specialization

23.4

Productivity

19.9

Measurement & Accountability

18.2

Integration & Interoperability

13.9

Customization & Adaptation

7.5

Demand data: API Evangelist Insights — enterprise API & AI adoption signals.

Providers (84)

Provider	Description	APIs	Rating
Benchmark Minerals	Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is the world's leading market intelligence and price reporting agency for the lithium-ion battery supply chain and energy transition materials. Th...	1	developing
Bureau of Land Management	The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the U.S. Department of the Interior bureau that administers 245 million surface acres of public land and 700 million acres of subsurface m...	6	developing
Caterpillar	Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and d...	3	developing
CAT	CAT is the brand name and ticker symbol for Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural g...	1	thin
Monero	Monero is a privacy-focused, decentralized cryptocurrency providing JSON-RPC APIs for wallet management, transaction creation, mining coordination, and blockchain data access on...	2	thin
United States Steel	United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) is an integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with major production operations in the United States and...	4	thin
VRIFY	VRIFY Technology Inc. is a Vancouver, British Columbia software company that builds exploration intelligence software for the mining industry, with a team of geoscientists and A...	0	thin
Minerstat	Minerstat mining pools API is a public API that allows you to obtain basic information about different mining pools that are listed on minerstat. This documentation will help yo...	1	thin
Adionics	Adionics is a French cleantech company founded in 2012 in Paris by Guillaume de Souza, out of research into liquid-liquid salt extraction started in 2007. It develops and licens...	7	thin
CONSOL Energy	CONSOL Energy was a Pittsburgh-based bituminous coal producer serving electric utilities, steelmakers and industrial customers. In January 2025 it merged with Arch Resources to ...	6	thin
RuhAN	RuhAN (ruhan.co) is a Turkish mining and underground-sciences platform covering mining licence workflows, MAPEG and Turkish mining legislation, tender and field reports, geology...	1	thin
Aarav Unmanned Systems (Aereo)	Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS), which rebranded as Aereo in 2023, is an Indian end-to-end enterprise drone company founded in 2013 out of the research labs of IIT Kanpur and headq...	1	thin
A-Mark Precious Metals	A-Mark Precious Metals is a full-service precious metals trading company that wholesales gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and coins to dealers, financial institutio...	4	emerging
Cleveland-Cliffs	Cleveland-Cliffs is North America's largest flat-rolled steel producer and supplier of iron ore pellets, operating an integrated business spanning mining, steelmaking, and downs...	1	emerging
SmartData	SmartData is a hosted drone-data workspace built and operated by National Drones, a CASA ReOC holder and Registered Training Organisation headquartered at Level 34, 1 Eagle Stre...	0	emerging
Tari	Tari is an open-source, proof-of-work blockchain protocol designed to be private by default (confidential transactions) and accessible to everyday users. Its Tari Universe appli...	1	emerging
Propeller Aero	Propeller Aero is a drone survey and earthworks analytics platform for construction, mining, aggregates, and waste sites. Teams fly a drone, process imagery with Propeller's Aer...	1	emerging
Impossible Metals	Impossible Metals is a deep-ocean robotics and critical-minerals company founded in 2020 by CEO Oliver Gunasekara, headquartered in San Jose, California with a robotics lab in C...	5	emerging
Alliance Resource Partners	Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: ARLP) is a diversified energy and natural-resource partnership headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is the largest coal producer in the...	1	emerging
EnergyX	EnergyX (Energy Exploration Technologies, Inc.) is a critical-materials technology company founded in 2018 by Teague Egan and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with operations in ...	18	emerging
Percepto	Percepto is an Israeli-founded industrial autonomy company (founded 2014, offices in Modi'in, Israel and the United States) that builds drone-in-a-box hardware and the software ...	1	emerging
Arch Coal	Arch Coal was a St. Louis-based producer and marketer of metallurgical and thermal coal, renamed Arch Resources in 2020. In January 2025 Arch Resources merged with CONSOL Energy...	1	emerging
Descartes Labs	Descartes Labs was a Santa Fe, New Mexico geospatial intelligence company founded in 2014 as a spin-out from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The company built the Descartes Labs...	6	emerging
Mineral Forecast	Mineral Forecast is a geosciences AI company (backed by Techstars) that helps mineral exploration and mining teams identify the best drilling targets. Its explainable-AI geoscie...	0	emerging
Bitmain	Bitmain Technologies is a Beijing-based designer and manufacturer of ASIC cryptocurrency-mining hardware, best known for its Antminer line of Bitcoin (SHA-256) and other proof-o...	1	emerging
Sirius	beSirius is an Amsterdam-based AI platform for the critical minerals and metals value chain. It builds a continuously verified digital Twin of every supplier, mapping each compa...	0	emerging
Minersai	MinersAI applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to geoscience data for mineral exploration, mining operations, public geological authorities, and mining & minerals...	0	emerging
Alcoa	Alcoa Corporation is a global industry leader in bauxite, alumina, and aluminum production. Founded in 1888, Alcoa operates mines, refineries, and smelters across Australia, Bra...	0	emerging
NACCO Industries	NACCO Industries is a major US corporation and Fortune 1000 company. The NACCO Industries API provides programmatic access to its platform services, data, and integrations for e...	1	emerging
Nth Cycle	Nth Cycle is a critical mineral refining company headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, that recovers production-grade nickel, cobalt, copper and rare earth elements from mine...	0	emerging
Tronox Holdings	Tronox Holdings is a major US corporation and Fortune 1000 company. The Tronox Holdings API provides programmatic access to its platform services, data, and integrations for ent...	1	emerging
5B Australia	5B is an Australian cleantech manufacturer that builds prefabricated, pre-wired ground-mount solar technology for utility-scale, mining, industrial and remote-community power pr...	0	emerging
KoBold Metals	KoBold Metals is a critical-minerals exploration and development company that applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to the search for the copper, lithium, nickel ...	0	emerging
Warrior Met Coal	Warrior Met Coal is a major US corporation and Fortune 1000 company. The Warrior Met Coal API provides programmatic access to its platform services, data, and integrations for e...	1	emerging
BHP	BHP is one of the world's largest mining companies, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. BHP does not publish a public developer portal; integration is delivered through enter...	0	minimal
Belts	Belts covers the landscape of APIs, data standards, and digital resources related to conveyor belts and industrial belt systems. This topic encompasses conveyor belt monitoring ...	0	minimal
Ceibo	Ceibo is a Chilean copper technology company accelerating access to copper supply through a proprietary leaching process that recovers copper from primary sulfide ores. Backed b...	0	minimal
Albemarle	Albemarle Corporation is a global specialty chemicals company and leading provider of lithium, bromine, and other essential elements. Operating from its global headquarters in C...	0	minimal
Alta Resource Technologies	Alta Resource Technologies is a Colorado-based deep-tech company reinventing how critical minerals are sourced. It uses advanced biochemistry — customizable, engineered proteins...	0	minimal
Commercial Metals Company	Commercial Metals Company (CMC) is a Fortune 500 manufacturer, recycler, fabricator and marketer of steel and metal products — rebar, merchant and structural bar, wire rod, perf...	0	minimal
Jetti Resources	Jetti Resources is a Boulder, Colorado based metallurgical technology company whose catalytic leaching process unlocks copper from low-grade primary sulfide ores such as chalcop...	0	minimal
Steel Dynamics	Steel Dynamics, Inc. is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in the United States, with operations spanning steel manufacturing, steel processing, an...	0	minimal
Plotlogic	Plotlogic is a mining technology company that builds AI-driven sensing systems for real-time ore and material characterisation. Its flagship product, OreSense, scans rock in ope...	0	minimal
247Solar	247Solar, Inc. is a zero-carbon energy technology company with MIT origins that designs and builds modular third-generation concentrated solar power (CSP) systems delivering rou...	0	minimal
Metalshub	Metalshub (Metals Hub GmbH) is a Berlin-based digital platform for the metals, mining, and recycling industries, enabling over 2,800 industry participants to buy, sell, and trad...	0	minimal
Vulcan Materials Company	Vulcan Materials Company is the nation's largest producer of construction aggregates, primarily crushed stone, sand, and gravel, and a major producer of asphalt mix and ready-mi...	0	minimal
Earth AI	Earth AI is a vertically integrated, AI-powered mineral exploration company that discovers, develops, and owns critical mineral mines for the emerging hardware economy — data ce...	0	minimal
Electra	Electra (legal name Electrasteel, Inc.) is a Boulder, Colorado clean-industrial company founded in 2020 that is reinventing ironmaking. Instead of smelting iron ore with fossil ...	0	minimal
USA Rare Earth	USA Rare Earth, Inc. (Nasdaq: USAR) is an American critical-minerals and advanced-materials company building a domestic mine-to-magnet rare earth supply chain. It operates a 310...	0	minimal
Reliance, Inc.	Reliance, Inc. (NYSE: RS) is the largest metals service center operator in North America, distributing approximately 100,000 metal products across aluminum, brass, alloy, copper...	0	minimal
I-Pulse	I-Pulse Inc. is a U.S.-based industrial technology company founded in 2007 by Robert Friedland and Laurent Frescaline that commercializes High Pulsed Power (HPP) — releasing ver...	0	minimal
EnviCore	EnviCore is a Calgary, Alberta based sustainability and materials-technology company, backed by Techstars, that produces low-carbon supplementary cementitious materials for the ...	0	minimal
Cliffs Natural Resources	Cliffs Natural Resources is the legacy corporate name for what is now Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., a major mining and natural resources company that produces iron ore pellets primaril...	0	minimal
Genesis Digital Assets	Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) is a global digital infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates industrial-scale data centers for high-performance computing workloads...	0	minimal
Sadbhav Engineering Limited	Sadbhav Engineering Limited (SEL), operating at sadbhaveng.com, is an Indian infrastructure and civil-engineering contractor founded in 1988 by Vishnubhai M. Patel and headquart...	0	minimal
Sensmore	Sensmore (sensmore GmbH) is a German industrial-automation and embodied-AI company that turns robotics research into field-proven systems for heavy machinery in raw material ope...	0	minimal
Rio Tinto	Rio Tinto is a British-Australian multinational mining and metals corporation and one of the world's largest producers of iron ore, aluminum, copper, and diamonds. Rio Tinto doe...	0	minimal
Kaiser Aluminum	Kaiser Aluminum manufactures semi-fabricated aluminum products for industrial applications across aerospace, packaging, general engineering, and automotive markets. The nearly c...	0	minimal
Skycatch	Skycatch built spatial data capture, processing, and analytics for mining and construction sites, turning drone and aerial imagery into high-precision 3D data, volumetrics, and ...	0	minimal
Alliance Holdings	Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. (AHGP) was a limited partnership formed to own and control Alliance Resource Management GP, LLC, the managing general partner of Alliance Resource Par...	0	minimal
Hades	Hades Mining GmbH is a Munich-based deep-tech extraction company building technology-first methods for accessing critical minerals and geothermal energy from ultra-deep rock for...	0	minimal
Atomionics	Atomionics is a Singapore-based deep-technology company, founded in 2018, that builds quantum sensors for mineral resource exploration and GPS-free navigation. Its Gravio quantu...	0	minimal
Alpha Natural Resources	Alpha Natural Resources is a producer of metallurgical and thermal coal in the United States, mining and processing coal for steelmaking and electric power generation. The compa...	0	minimal
BANIQL CORP.	BANIQL CORP. (BANiQL) is developing a sustainable process for selectively extracting nickel and cobalt for use in lithium-ion battery production. Its core technology uses a chem...	0	minimal
Coinmine	Coinmine is a consumer cryptocurrency-mining hardware company known for the Coinmine One, a plug-and-play home mining device that let non-technical owners mine and hold crypto a...	0	minimal
Freeport-McMoRan	Freeport-McMoRan is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, operating large, long-lived geographically diverse assets with significant prov...	0	minimal
GMR	GMR (General Mining Research) is a crypto and Web3 company backed by Multicoin Capital and tracked in the API Evangelist network. Its public presence is a single-page web applic...	0	minimal
Ideon Technologies	Ideon Technologies (ideon.ai) develops REVEAL, a subsurface intelligence platform that uses muon tomography and geophysical inversion to image, map, and monitor mineral deposits...	0	minimal
Nucor	Nucor Corporation is a Fortune 500 American steel and steel products manufacturer headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the largest steel producer in the United Stat...	0	minimal
Phoenix Tailings	Phoenix Tailings is a clean rare earth and critical minerals refining company working to restore U.S. industrial independence by building domestic refining capacity for the meta...	0	minimal
VerAI	VerAI Discoveries is an AI-driven mineral discovery company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its proprietary AI/ML Discovery Platform searches magneti...	0	minimal
Element Zero	Element Zero is a green-materials technology company decarbonizing the production of iron and other critical metals. Its patented non-aqueous electrochemical process converts an...	0	minimal
Joy Global (Komatsu Mining)	Joy Global was a worldwide leader in manufacturing, servicing, and distributing equipment for surface mining, underground mining, and rock excavation before being acquired by Ko...	0	minimal
Linear Labs	Linear Labs is an industrial motor technology company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, building high-torque motor systems for wind, nuclear, pumps, actuators, mining, and def...	0	minimal
Marianaminerals	Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated critical-minerals company supplying the metals essential to modern energy, artificial intelligence, and defense techn...	0	minimal
Alpha Metallurgical Resources	Profile for Alpha Metallurgical Resources in the API Evangelist network. Fortune F1000 (rank 925).	0	minimal
Arch Resources	Profile for Arch Resources in the API Evangelist network. Fortune F1000 (rank 922).	0	minimal
Newmont	Newmont Corporation is the world's leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc, and lead, with operations and projects across the Americas, Africa, Australia, an...	0	minimal
Peabody Energy	Peabody Energy is the world's largest private-sector coal company, mining and supplying coal to electricity generators and steel producers in the United States and around the wo...	0	minimal
Optimotive	Optimotive is an autonomous-robotics company building a vertically integrated fleet of advanced robots for the toughest, most extreme environments across construction, mining, a...	0	minimal
Terra AI	Terra AI is a geoscience frontier company building specialized artificial intelligence for the natural resources sector, focused on subsurface characterization and exploration o...	0	minimal
Kespry	Kespry was an industrial drone and aerial-intelligence company founded in the San Francisco Bay Area that paired automated fixed-perimeter drones with a cloud analytics platform...	0	minimal
Mine Health and Safety Administration	The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) works to prevent mining related deaths, injuries, and illnesses through mine regulations, inspections, and training programs.	0	minimal
Cloud Peak Energy	Cloud Peak Energy Inc. was an American coal mining company headquartered in Gillette, Wyoming, established in 2009 as a spin-off from Rio Tinto Energy America. The company opera...	0

APIs in this industry (103)

All 103 APIs.

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Governance	3.4	6.3	-2.9	76
Discoverability	56.7	61	-4.3	76
Access Clarity	18.3	26.3	-8	76
Operational Transparency	4	13.9	-9.9	76
Developer Ergonomics	11	23.3	-12.3	76
Contract Quality	6.6	19.8	-13.2	76

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	4%	10%	-6
MCP server (first-party)	4%	9%	-5
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	6%	11%	-5
Security	99%	97%	+2
Arazzo workflows	0%	2%	-2
Governance rules	3%	14%	-11

Mining

About this industry

Market demand

Leading adopters

AI & API adoption maturity

Providers (84)

APIs in this industry (103)

Benchmark Minerals API

BLM ePlanning

BLM GBP Hub Search API (OGC API - Records)

BLM General Land Office Records

BLM Geospatial Business Platform (GBP) Hub

BLM Mineral and Land Records System (MLRS)

BLM National and State ArcGIS REST / OGC WMS Services

Cat Digital Marketplace API

ISO 15143-3 (AEMP 2.0) API

VisionLink APIs

CAT CAT Caterpillar Telematics API API

CAT Equipment API

Monero Blockchain API

Monero JSON-RPC API

Monero Mining API

Monero Network API

Monero Node Info API

Monero Outputs API

Monero Transaction Pool API

Monero Transactions API

United States Steel Inventory API

United States Steel Orders API

United States Steel Shipments API

United States Steel Test Reports API

Minerstat Pools API

Adionics Discovery API

Adionics MCP Server

Adionics Media API

Adionics Pages API

Adionics Posts API

Adionics Search API

Adionics Taxonomy API

Core Natural Resources Discovery API

Core Natural Resources Leadership Content API

Core Natural Resources Mines Content API

Core Natural Resources News Content API

Core Natural Resources Site Content API

SEC EDGAR Filings (Core Natural Resources, CIK 1710366)

RuhAN Platform

Aereo Cloud Tile Server

A-Mark Collateralized Loans

A-Mark Logistics and Storage

A-Mark Minting

A-Mark Wholesale Trading

Cleveland-Cliffs EDI (ANSI X12 4010)

Tari Base Node & Wallet gRPC

Propeller Aero Organizations API

Propeller Aero Position Monitoring API

Propeller Aero Shapes API

Propeller Aero Sites API

Propeller Aero Surveys API

Propeller Aero Widgets API

Propeller Aero Workspaces API

Impossible Metals Authors API

Impossible Metals Categories API

Impossible Metals Common API

Impossible Metals Discovery API

Impossible Metals Doc API

Impossible Metals Events API

Impossible Metals Events Pro API

Impossible Metals FAQ API

Impossible Metals FAQ Categories API

Impossible Metals Media API

Impossible Metals O Embed API

Impossible Metals Organizers API

Impossible Metals Pages API

Impossible Metals Posts API

Impossible Metals Search API

Impossible Metals Tags API

Impossible Metals Taxonomy API

Impossible Metals Venues API

Alliance Resource Partners Content API

EnergyX Discovery API