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Poi esplora liberamente →Tutto è un'unica filiera
Tutte le filiere →Le stesse nove fasi sono alla base di quasi ogni prodotto fisico. Fai clic su una fase qualsiasi per vedere cosa contiene.
E qui la stessa catena con luoghi reali
Una tonnellata di rame, da una miniera cilena a un filo conduttore — minerale allo 0,5%, un impianto di fusione su un altro continente, e l'oro e il tellurio che emergono lungo il processo. Seguila →
Segui un lotto, confine per confine
Tutti i percorsi →Il greggio extra-pesante venezuelano e l'Arab Light saudita sono entrambi «petrolio», eppure solo uno dei due può essere raffinato pressoché ovunque. Scegli un materiale, scegli il luogo di estrazione e osserva chi lo detiene a ogni confine.
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.
O percorri le stesse catene senza le frontiere
Materiali di cui il mondo è carente
L'elenco completo dei minerali critici →Indicatore di criticità come designato nel USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. Le quote dei principali produttori sono stime 2025 tratte dalla stessa fonte.
Silicon
The second-most-common element in the Earth's crust — ordinary sand — purified until only one atom in a billion is something…
Gallium
A silvery metal that melts in your hand, and the basis of the compound semiconductors in fast chargers, radar and LEDs.
Lanthanum
The first of the rare earths, used by the tonne in the catalysts that crack crude oil into petrol.
Bauxite
A reddish soil-like rock, formed where tropical rain has rotted rock for millions of years, and the only ore aluminium is made…
Alumina
A fine white powder of aluminium oxide, the halfway product between bauxite rock and aluminium metal.
Fluorspar
Calcium fluoride, the mineral that every fluorine atom in industry ultimately comes from — including the fluorine in battery…
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.
Tellurium
A brittle, silvery element recovered from the slime at the bottom of a copper refinery tank, and the basis of one of the two…
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