Metals and minerals have played a crucial role in building the modern world. These materials are essential in construction and manufacturing, from buildings and bridges to cars and electronics.
Critical minerals like lithium, copper, and cobalt will play an increasingly important role in the energy transition as countries move away from fossil fuels towards clean energy.
This raises important questions about whether the world has enough of these minerals to power the energy transition, the environmental impacts of mining, and socioeconomic issues such as working conditions in supply chains.
On this page, you find our data, charts, and writing related to metals and minerals. It gives an overview of global statistics on crucial minerals: which countries have these resources, where they are mined and refined, and how they’re traded across the world.
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