specialty_metal · primary
Supply · in the ground
Provenance
10 countries shown · USGS-defined economic reserves
Supply · named deposits
1,031 distinct deposits across the roster
Geographic spread
United States 758 · Mexico 36 · Brazil 23 · Peru 17 · South Africa 17
Named producers
Resource & reserve estimates
USGS USMIN · deposit-level contained-metal estimates
Supply · geochemical abundance
USGS National Geochemical Database · sorted by detection · detected-sample concentration
Supply · held inventory
Latest · 2025
0t
Supply · recycling
$281M of scrap consumed
Eurostat WEEE and battery end-of-life flows (Phase 6.1.1) are recorded at country level without commodity decomposition. Querying country profiles for EU member states will surface those flows; the commodity profile cannot decompose them today.
Supply · out of the ground
Supply
9 sources · click to verify