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100%
of the world's gallium comes out of China
Mine production, 2025 · USGS
88%
of the world's bismuth comes out of China
Mine production, 2025 · USGS
87%
of the world's silicon comes out of China
Mine production, 2025 · USGS
14
materials the United States imports every single gram of
Net import reliance, 2025 · USGS
27
materials nobody mines on purpose — they arrive as somebody else's by-product
Editorial classification
1,000,000 litres
becomes 8 kg of contained lithium
Worked example · follow it step by step
1,000 tonnes
becomes 1.6 tonnes of finished sintered magnet
Worked example · follow it step by step
1,000 tonnes
becomes 250 tonnes of primary aluminium
Worked example · follow it step by step
200 tonnes
becomes 25 tonnes of enriched fuel
Worked example · follow it step by step
0.2–0.3 kg
of neodymium in one NdFeB Permanent Magnet, per kg of finished magnet
Indicative range · see the basis
100–200 kg
of neodymium in one Direct-Drive Offshore Wind Turbine, per MW of capacity
Indicative range · see the basis
6–9 kg
of lithium in one NMC Lithium-Ion Battery, per 75 kWh pack
Indicative range · see the basis
Alles ist eine Kette
Alle Lieferketten →Die gleichen neun Stufen stehen hinter fast jedem physischen Produkt. Hier sind sie für Kupfer dargestellt — klicken Sie auf eine Stufe, um zu sehen, was dort vorkommt.
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01Rohstoff
Was es ist und wo es im Boden liegt
Kupfer im Gestein — hier als grüner Malachit
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02Lagerstätte
Das Mineral, das es tatsächlich trägt
Chalkopyrit, das wichtigste Kupfererz
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03Bergwerk
Wer es abbaut und wie
Escondida, Chile — die weltweit größte Kupfermine nach Fördervolumen
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04Aufbereitung
Brechen, Flotation, Verhüttung
Schaumflotation trennt Kupferminerale aus gemahlenem Gestein heraus
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05Raffination
Eine verwendbare Reinheit erreichen
Kupferanoden auf dem Weg zur Raffinerie
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06Komponente
Das Teil, das daraus wird
Kupferwicklungen in einem Elektromotor
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07Produkt
Das Produkt, das man kaufen kann
Ein Elektroauto
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08Endmarkt
Wer es braucht und warum
Stromnetze
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09Unternehmen
Wer die Anlagen besitzt
BHPs Firmensitz in Melbourne — BHP betreibt Escondida
Eine Tonne Kupfer, von einer chilenischen Grube bis zum Draht – 0,5 % Erzgehalt, eine Hütte auf einem anderen Kontinent und das Gold und Tellur, das dabei anfällt. Folgen →
Eine Sendung verfolgen, Grenze für Grenze
Alle Routen →Venezolanisches Extra-Schweröl und saudi-arabisches Arab Light sind beide „Erdöl", und nur eines davon kann fast überall raffiniert werden. Ein Material wählen, seinen Förderort wählen und beobachten, wer es an jeder Grenze hält.
Venezuelan extra-heavy crude to diesel, asphalt and aluminium anodes
Oil so thick it will not flow down a pipe, and cannot be refined by most refineries on Earth.
Saudi Arab Light to petrol, almost anywhere
The same commodity, a fraction of the effort — because of what the molecule is.
Alberta oil sands: mined like ore, refined like oil
The only oil in the world that is dug up with a shovel and graded like an orebody.
Chilean brine to a battery in a car
The ore is water. The first year and a half of processing is done by the sun, for free.
Australian spodumene to a battery, the fast way
Eight weeks instead of eighteen months, at the cost of a great deal more energy.
New Caledonian laterite to stainless steel
An island that smelts its own ore, and pays for it with the most expensive electricity in the industry.
Indonesian laterite to a battery cathode
A country that banned raw ore exports and built the processing industry instead.
Chilean sulfide concentrate to Chinese cathode to a wire
Chile mines the most copper in the world. China refines the most. Those are not the same sentence.
Oder dieselben Ketten ohne die Grenzen
Materialien, an denen die Welt Mangel hat
Die vollständige Liste kritischer Mineralien →Kritikalitätskennzeichnung gemäß USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. Anteile führender Produzenten sind Schätzungen für 2025 aus derselben Quelle.
Cobalt
A hard, bluish metal that keeps a battery's cathode stable so it does not overheat, and that holds its strength when red hot.
Ytterbium
A rare earth used in the fibre lasers that cut steel in factories, and in some of the most accurate atomic clocks ever built.
Rhenium
One of the rarest metals in the crust, recovered from molybdenum roasting, and the ingredient that lets a jet turbine blade run…
Niobium
A metal that makes steel much stronger when added in tiny amounts — a few hundred grams per tonne changes the whole alloy.
Tungsten
The metal with the highest melting point of them all — you can heat it to 3,400 C before it turns liquid.
Rhodium
The rarest of the metals traded in any volume, produced in tens of tonnes a year, and the only practical way to strip nitrogen…
Germanium
The element the very first transistors were made from, now used mainly for infrared lenses and fibre-optic glass.
Fluorspar
Calcium fluoride, the mineral that every fluorine atom in industry ultimately comes from — including the fluorine in battery…
Drei Einstiege
Mit den Zahlen spielen
Eine Million Elektroautos würden 4,4 % der weltweiten Jahresgraphitproduktion beanspruchen.
Wählen Sie eine beliebige Technologie und Menge und sehen Sie den Materialbedarf im Verhältnis zur Weltversorgung.
Rechner öffnen →
Das gesamte Bild sehen
77 Elemente sind handelbare Rohstoffe. Der Rest des Periodensystems nicht.
Welche Elemente die Wirtschaft tatsächlich nutzt – und, ebenso aufschlussreich, welche nicht.
Periodensystem öffnen →
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Alle Nachrichten →Schlagzeilen und Zusammenfassungen namentlich genannter Verlage, jeweils mit Verlinkung zum Original. Wir veröffentlichen keine Artikel nach.
US Department of Energy names helium to critical materials list
Global demand for helium is growing faster than production, increasing supply risks for American manufacturers, DOE said.
Bannerman pulls trigger on $353M uranium mine
Construction on the Etango uranium project in Namibia approved, with funding secured without project debt and first production targeted for 2028.
Why Trump and Carney Haven’t Touched Energy in Their Tariff War
The United States and Canada are locked in an energy trade war – sort of. Although United States President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have lobbed plenty of…
White House says the US is lifting tariffs on some Canadian goods
Susan Collins, a Republican in a tight race to keep her senate seat in next month's elections, said she had been working with the White House on tariff relief.
Newmont prices Red Chris expansion at up to $4.8B
Newmont (NYSE, ASX: NEM) put a price of up to $4.8 billion (C$6.4 billion) on taking its Red Chris copper-gold mine underground in British Columbia, with commercial production targeted…
Lithium’s $100B question: Who will build 134 new mines?
Global lithium demand is expected to more than triple by 2050, equivalent to the output of 134 new mines and more than $100 billion (C$139.8 billion) in investment before accounting... The…
New Found Gold doubles Queensway valuation to $1.7B
New Found Gold (TSX, NYSE-A: NFGC) has more than doubled the projected value of its Queensway gold project in Newfoundland to C$1.73 billion while expanding measured and indicated resources…
Southern Copper weighs $680M Cuajone expansion
Southern Copper (NYSE, BVL: SCCO) is evaluating a $680-million (C$950.6 million) expansion of its Cuajone mine in southern Peru to counter declining ore grades and improve efficiency as the…
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