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Commoditytin

Critical · 2 lists

Tin · Sn

base_metal · primary

USGS_2022

USGS_2025

Bottom line

Tin sits on 2 federal critical-minerals lists; mine supply is well diversified (HHI 0.14, 2025), led by 🇨🇳 China at 25% of output. The US is 77% net import-reliant (2025). Prices rose 13% over the past year (0%/yr over 4y).

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Headline indicators

Price · 2026

49,585$/mt

World Bank Pink Sheet

Price trend

+13% 1Y

0%/yr · 4Y CAGR

US net import reliance · 2025

77%

Mine production HHI

0.14

Diversified · 2025

From ore to use

lifecycle flow

01Reserves
6.0Mt
Indonesia leads · 23% share
02Production
294.7Kt
China top · 2024
03Trade
35.1Kt
net importer · 2025

Coverage

Data coverage notes

datedMaterial-flow analysis is historical - All 6 material-flow records date to 2000 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.
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.
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.

Provenance

Where this data comes from

04Stocks

8.1Kt

year-end · 2025

05Consumption

43.0Kt

Consumption, apparent, refined · 2025

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.

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BGS World Mineral Statistics
strata midstream/components census
midstream_components_seed
NI 43-101 / AIF deposit economics (tungsten + tin)
ni43101_deposits
strata ownership-control seed
ownership_control_seed
USGS DS-140 (constant 1998 USD)
USGS DS-140 (nominal)
USGS MCS (LME)
USGS MCS (New York dealer)
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 ARDF
USGS Critical-Mineral Deposits
usgs_critmin_deposits_v2
USGS National Mine Waste Inventory (NMWI)
usgs_mine_waste
USGS MRDS deposits
usgs_mrds_2016
USGS Critical Minerals (PP-1802)
usgs_pp1802_global
USGS World Phosphate Mines, Deposits, and Occurrences
usgs_world_phosphate
USGS USMIN Critical Deposits
usmin_critical_deposits
World Bank Pink Sheet

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