Rhenium · Re
specialty_metal · byproduct
Bottom line
Rhenium sits on 1 federal critical-minerals list; mine supply is moderately concentrated (HHI 0.24, 2025), led by 🇨🇱 Chile at 37% of output. The US is 75% net import-reliant (2025). Prices rose 91% over the past year (+28%/yr over 4y).
At a glance
Headline indicators
Price · 2025
2,300dollars per kilogram
USGS MCS (Ammonium perrhenate)
Price trend
+91% 1Y
+28%/yr · 4Y CAGR
US net import reliance · 2025
75%
Mine production HHI
0.24
Moderate · 2025
From ore to use
lifecycle flow
- 01Reserves
2,495,000kilograms
Chile leads · 52% share
- 02Production
61,900Kilograms, rhenium content
Chile top · 2024
- 03Trade
28,600kilograms
net importer · 2025
- 04Stocks
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- 05Consumption
38,000kilograms
Consumption, apparent · 2025
Coverage
Data coverage notes
- no forecastRhenium: no free authoritative demand forecast - No free numeric rhenium demand forecast exists in any allowed source class: no industry study group covers rhenium; USGS MCS 2026 carries only current-year estimates (2025 world production 81,000 kg; superalloys ~80% of end use); rhenium is absent from the EC JRC foresight demand dataset and from IEA critical-minerals projections.
- 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 19 material-flow records date to 2008 or earlier (Yale STAF era). They describe the anthropogenic cycle of that period, not today's system.
- datedEnvironmental footprint is dated - Cradle-to-gate intensity rows carry a 2008 inventory vintage (Nuss & Eckelman-era LCA). Current-process footprints are not yet in scope.
- narrowConsumption geography is single-economy (United States) - Reported consumption covers one economy only - the world usage split must be read from trade flows, not from a consumption 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
midstream_components_seed
ni43101_deposits
- USGS DS-140 (constant 1998 USD)
- USGS DS-140 (nominal)
- USGS MCS (Ammonium perrhenate)
- USGS MCS (Metal, 99.99% pure)
- 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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