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Critical · 2 lists

Zinc · Zn

base_metal · primary

USGS_2022

USGS_2025

Bottom line

Zinc sits on 2 federal critical-minerals lists; mine supply is moderately concentrated (HHI 0.20, 2025), led by 🇨🇳 China at 39% of output. The US is 73% net import-reliant (2025). Prices rose 3% over the past year (-1%/yr over 4y).

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Headline indicators

Price · 2026

3,313$/mt

World Bank Pink Sheet

Price trend

+3% 1Y

-1%/yr · 4Y CAGR

US net import reliance · 2025

73%

Mine production HHI

0.20

Moderate · 2025

From ore to use

lifecycle flow

01Reserves
240.0Mt
Australia leads · 27% share
02Production
12.0Mt
China top · 2024
03Trade
12.0Kt
net exporter · 2025

Coverage

Data coverage notes

datedMaterial-flow analysis is historical - All 20678 material-flow records date to 2012 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.

Provenance

Where this data comes from

04Stocks

110.0Kt

year-end · 2025

05Consumption

7.0Mt

China · 2023

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
strata ownership-control seed
ownership_control_seed
SEC S-K 1300 TRS - LLM extraction lane
sec_edgar_ex96_pdf
Statistics Canada Table 16-10-0022
USGS DS-140 (constant 1998 USD)
USGS DS-140 (nominal)
USGS MCS (LME)
USGS MCS (North American)
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries World Data (legacy wide format, 2023-2025 vintages)
USGS Mineral Industry Surveys
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 Deposit-Type Grade & Tonnage (Ni-Co laterite, podiform chromite)
usgs_deposit_gt
USGS National Mine Waste Inventory (NMWI)
usgs_mine_waste
USGS MRDS deposits
usgs_mrds_2016
USGS USMIN Critical Deposits
usmin_critical_deposits
World Bank Pink Sheet

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