Uranium · U
energy_fuel · primary
Bottom line
Uranium sits on 1 federal critical-minerals list; mine supply is moderately concentrated (HHI 0.23, 2019), led by 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan at 42% of output.
At a glance
Headline indicators
Price · 2024
53USD/lb U3O8
EIA weighted-avg purchase price, US civi
Mine production HHI
0.23
Moderate · 2019
From ore to use
lifecycle flow
- 01Reserves
329.0Kt
Australia leads · 100% share
- 02Production
62.5Kt
Kazakhstan top · 2024
- 03Trade
-
- 04Stocks
-
- 05Consumption
19.0Kt
USA · 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.
- 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.
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
- EIA weighted-avg purchase price, US civi
- Geoscience Australia AIMR 2025
midstream_components_seed
ownership_control_seed
sec_edgar_ex96_pdf
- Statistics Canada Table 16-10-0022
- USGS Minerals Yearbook Vol III, reference year 2019
usgs_mine_waste
usgs_mrds_2016
usgs_world_phosphate
usmin_critical_deposits
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