The US Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center says it is transitioning datasets to ScienceBase and has temporarily paused public posting of Mineral Industry Surveys. Latest available posted sulfur MIS data remain December 2025. The NMIC sulfur statistics page is at https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/sulfur-statistics-and-information.
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, posted in February, remains current for annual production and unit-value anchors. That survey estimates US recovered elemental sulfur at 7.6 million tonnes in 2025, all-forms output at 8.1 million tonnes, apparent consumption at 9.1 million tonnes, and Canada production at 5.0 million tonnes. World output is 84 million tonnes.
Monthly MIS tables are how the desk usually tracks US recovered production, shipments, and stocks between annual summaries. A pause through August means those intra-year US government lines are not updating. It does not mean US refineries stopped recovering sulfur. It means the public monthly tape is frozen on the December 2025 posting.
North American sulfur intelligence therefore leans harder on other verified_public prints: Alberta Energy Regulator inventory when reported, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority cargo tables, and Statistics Canada HS 2503 when a new table appears. Argus open news on 13 July remains the last public Tampa contract print, $705 per long ton delivered for Q3 (https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-market-news/2851577-tampa-3q-liquid-sulphur-price-hits-record-705-lt).
The pause is a government IT migration, not a sulfur-market event. The desk records it so that missing monthly US production prints are not mistaken for missing tonnes. MCS 2026 still frames 2025. Tampa, Vancouver, and AER prints still frame 2026. Licensed weekly assessment grids are not used as a substitute MIS.
Alberta recovered sulfur still leaves mainly through the Vancouver stem. A frozen US monthly survey does not change that corridor. It does thin the US production side of the North American balance until ScienceBase posting resumes.