Manganese · Mn
base_metal · primary
Bottom line
Manganese sits on 2 federal critical-minerals lists; mine supply is concentrated (HHI 0.26, 2025), led by 🇿🇦 South Africa at 40% of output. The US is 100% net import-reliant (2025). Prices fell 19% over the past year (-4%/yr over 4y).
At a glance
Headline indicators
Price · 2025
5dollars per metric ton unit
USGS MCS (Price, average, manganese cont)
Price trend
-19% 1Y
-4%/yr · 4Y CAGR
US net import reliance · 2025
100%
Mine production HHI
0.26
Concentrated · 2025
From ore to use
lifecycle flow
- 01Reserves
1.7Bt
Australia leads · 34% share
- 02Production
19.9Mt
South Africa top · 2024
- 03Trade
995.0Kt
net importer · 2025
- 04Stocks
200.0Kt
year-end · 2025
- 05Consumption
410.0Kt
Consumption, reported: Manganese ore · 2025
Coverage
Data coverage notes
- no dataNo commodity-decomposed recycling data - No USGS MCS Fig13 scrap rows. EU WEEE / battery EOL flows (Phase 6.1.1) are country-keyed only - see country profiles.
- datedMaterial-flow analysis is historical - All 4 material-flow records date to 2000 or earlier (Yale STAF era). They describe the anthropogenic cycle of that period, not today's system.
- datedExport-restriction inventory ends 2020 - The OECD industrial-raw-materials inventory (vendored snapshot) reports HS-line measures only through 2020; restrictions enacted since are not reflected in the measure table.
Methodology
How strata reads a commodity
The eight-stage lens, the observed-vs-estimated membrane, stage-honest supply, per-stage concentration, ownership resolution and the demand lens - the full method is illustrated live on copper, nickel and lithium.
Provenance
Where this data comes from
- BGS World Mineral Statistics
- Ghana Chamber of Mines 'Mining Industry Statistics and Data' Factoid (free public PDF) - archived via `strata gh-chamber pull`; Appendix A1 parses to single-operator bauxite (Ghana Bauxite Company) + manganese (Ghana Manganese Company) production, the sole national producer of each.
- iea role critical minerals
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- Minerals Council South Africa 'Facts and Figures' Datasheets XLSX (free public download) - archived via `strata mcsa-facts pull`; the Manganese + Chrome sheets parse to South Africa saleable-ore production, total-sales and export-sales SupplyRecords (2013-2024, DMPR + SARS national series). SA is the world's #1 producer of both manganese ore and chromite. All tonnages are GROSS saleable ore, never contained metal.
ni43101_deposits
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- USGS DS-140 (constant 1998 USD)
- USGS DS-140 (nominal)
- USGS MCS (Price, average, manganese cont)
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries World Data (legacy wide format, 2023-2025 vintages)
- USGS Minerals Yearbook OFR 2025-1047
- USGS Minerals Yearbook Vol III, reference year 2019
usgs_critmin_deposits_v2
usgs_mine_waste
usgs_mrds_2016
usgs_pp1802_global
usgs_world_phosphate
usmin_critical_deposits
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