The Global Mining Map
A world map of who controls critical minerals: lithium, copper, rare earths, uranium, cobalt, nickel and more. It traces each mineral from the mines and countries that extract it to the refiners that process it, naming dominant producers such as MP Materials, Freeport-McMoRan, Albemarle, SQM, BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore and Vale, with live tickers.
This is an interactive map — enable JavaScript for the full visualization. Part of Muad'Dib Capital, the Atlas of the Physical Economy.
Featured in this map
- Rare Earths
- Antimony
- Tungsten
- Gallium / Ge
- Graphite
- Tritium / Li-6
- Gold
- Silver
- Copper
- Zinc / Pb
- Lithium
- Cobalt
- Nickel
- Uranium
- Iron Ore
- Bauxite / Al
- Titanium
- Platinum / PGMs
- Manganese
- Chromium
- Crude Oil
- Natural Gas
- Potash / Fert
- Phosphate
- Escondida
- Grasberg
- Antamina
- Kamoa-Kakula
- Kamoto (KCC)
- Kansanshi
- Lumwana
- Collahuasi
- Las Bambas
- Greenbushes
- Salar de Atacama
- Pilgangoora
- Cauchari-Olaroz
- Grota do Cirilo
- Bikita / Arcadia
- Bayan Obo
- Mountain Pass
- Mt Weld
- Nolans Bore
- Lovozero
- Longnan ionic clays
- Kachin ionic clays
- Serra Verde
- Browns Range
- Dubbo
- Round Top
- IREL monazite sands
- Cigar Lake
- McArthur River
- Inkai (Kazatomprom)
- Olympic Dam
- Husab
- Mutanda
- Tenke Fungurume
- Kisanfu
- Metalkol RTR (tailings)
- Sulawesi laterite (Vale)
- Morowali / IMIP (Tsingshan)
- Norilsk-Talnakh
- Ambatovy
- Pilbara cluster (RIO/BHP/FMG)
- Carajás
- Simandou
- Weipa
- CBG Boké
- Jacinth-Ambrosia
- Kenmare Moma
- Balama
- Heilongjiang flake (cluster)
- Ghawar field
- Permian Basin
- West Siberia
- Marcellus / Appalachia
- North Field / South Pars
- Yamal LNG
- China copper smelters
- Japan copper smelters
- Aurubis (Hamburg)
- LS-Nikko Onsan
- China Li chemicals (Sichuan/Jiangxi)
- Albemarle La Negra
- Kwinana Li hydroxide
- Albemarle Kings Mountain
- Baotou separation (light REE)
- Ganzhou heavy-REE separation
- Lynas Kuantan
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