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Depois vá aonde quiser →Tudo é uma cadeia
Todas as cadeias de fornecimento →Os mesmos nove estágios estão por trás de quase todo produto físico. Clique em qualquer estágio para ver o que está nele.
E aqui está essa mesma cadeia com lugares reais
Uma tonelada de cobre, de uma mina chilena a fio — minério de 0,5%, uma fundição em outro continente, e o ouro e o telúrio que saem no caminho. Acompanhe →
Acompanhe uma remessa, fronteira a fronteira
Todas as jornadas →O petróleo extra-pesado venezuelano e o Arab Light saudita são ambos "petróleo", e apenas um deles pode ser refinado em quase qualquer lugar. Escolha um material, escolha onde foi extraído, e veja quem o detém em cada fronteira.
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.
Ou veja as mesmas cadeias sem as fronteiras
Materiais em escassez mundial
A lista completa de minerais críticos →Indicador de criticalidade conforme designado na USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. As participações do produtor líder são estimativas de 2025 da mesma fonte.
Scandium
A light metal that makes aluminium dramatically stronger and weldable — and which is produced in tonnes per year worldwide, not…
Titanium Mineral Concentrates
Black beach sand — ilmenite and rutile — that is the starting point both for titanium metal and for the white pigment in paint.
Platinum-Group Metals
Six metals — platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium — that occur together and are separated from each…
Chromium
The element that makes stainless steel stainless — at about eleven percent chromium, steel grows an invisible film that stops…
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.
Potash
Potassium salts mined from ancient dried-up seas — the K in NPK fertiliser, which plants need to move water and resist drought.
Holmium
The rare earth with the strongest magnetic moment of any element, used in the pole pieces of the most powerful laboratory…
Ruthenium
A hard platinum-group metal used in tiny quantities inside hard drives and increasingly in chip interconnects.
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