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About The Dashboard

In 2018, non-fuel minerals production and trade was added to the Center for Energy Studies portfolio to enhance research coverage of key materials supply and value chains for energy and broader security applications. To support CES research and enhance public knowledge of these resources and trade patterns, we built two visualizations using publicly available data. The Global Minerals Production visualization closes a gap in public access to comprehensive production trends worldwide. The Global Minerals Trade visualization highlights dominant raw materials shipping (import and export) movements. Both visualizations were developed by CES researchers led by Michelle Michot Foss and including research associates (Elsie Hung, Theresa Hoesl, and Miaomiao Rimmer) and a former undergraduate research intern (Sree Yeluri, who helped with conceptualization).

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Overview

From the minerals production dashboard, users can access consolidated information on key commodities produced worldwide from 2014 to most recent. The minerals production dashboard is organized into three sections.

Global Map – Minerals Production by Country: Annual tonnage for all commodities in our database (see below on information sources) including world market shares and links to more information on the commodities. Users can select specific materials of interest to illustrate worldwide distribution of supply.
Country Profile: Details for all countries in our coverage for years covered including contribution of minerals and natural resource rents to country gross domestic product, GDP; distribution of minerals by weight; and World Bank governance indicators as context for investment risk.
Key Minerals by Energy Transition Technology: primary country producer, by market share, of an expanded selection of commodities essential for energy technologies of interest. We include semiconductors given their vast importance to the overall global economy. We also include elements that tend not to be measured, given their occurrence in nature, that are vital to industrial processes especially in high purity, along with noble gases and solvents without which much industrial manufacturing could not function and are of strategic interest.

Sources

The United State Geological Survey, USGS, through its National Minerals Information Center, NMIC, is the main provider of data and scientific research on minerals resources for the United States. The USGS reports annually to Congress on the value of minerals production across the U.S. states. In 2020, the USGS added a visualization for U.S. minerals production by state. Throughout its history, including contributions from the former U.S. Bureau of Mines, the USGS NMIC has catalogued minerals production and industry developments across an array of countries. The main documents used by CES for data extraction are the Mineral Commodity Summaries and related content. CES researchers scrape data from all of the USGS regularly updated summaries for all countries surveyed and reconcile information gaps. In August 2025, the USGS launched an online atlas focused on critical minerals production across countries. The atlas is part of the USGS charge to monitor domestic and international minerals geoscience and production trends for commodities identified on the Critical Minerals list.
World Mining Data is a country and region database compiled by Austria’s Federal Ministry of Finance. The WMD datasets are updated annually but are typically two years behind USGS reporting. Slight differences existence with respect to countries and commodities covered by USGS NMIC and WMD.
World Bank, natural resource and minerals rents as percent of GDP, and World Governance Indicators.