Tool
Ask the Data
A plain-English question, answered only from this atlas’s own tables — production, reserves, import reliance, mines, plants, companies and material intensity. If the answer is not in the data, it says so rather than guessing.
What it can and cannot do
It can
- Tell you who produces a material and how much, with the year the figure refers to.
- Say where the reserves are and how concentrated they are.
- Name the mines, plants and companies in this atlas connected to a material.
- Give the indicative material bill of a technology and point at the page it came from.
It will not
- Forecast a price, or tell you whether to buy or sell anything.
- Answer from outside this atlas — it has no access to the open web.
- Invent a figure when the source withheld one. It will say the source withheld it.
- Give engineering, safety, legal, medical or investment advice.
Answers are generated by a language model constrained to a JSON extract of this site’s own database, with a per-visitor rate limit. Always check the linked page, which carries the source and the period for every figure.