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Geology is not evenly distributed

Countries

No country chose where its orebodies are. Which materials a country produces, and how large a share of the world it holds, is one of the strongest constraints on modern industrial policy.

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Counted from the country rows of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. A country is listed once it appears in any world production or reserve table.

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CountryRegion Materials producedMines in atlas Plants in atlasExport controls
South Africa Africa22 21 1
Democratic Republic of the Congo Africa7 4 1
Madagascar Africa7
Zimbabwe Africa7 1
Algeria Africa5
Morocco Africa5 1 1
Mozambique Africa5
Nigeria Africa5
Rwanda Africa5
Egypt Africa4
Senegal Africa4
Botswana Africa3 1 1
Ethiopia Africa3
Ghana Africa3
Sierra Leone Africa3
Tanzania Africa3 1
Angola Africa2 1
Guinea Africa2
Kenya Africa2
Uganda Africa2
Burundi Africa1
Cameroon Africa1
Gabon Africa1 1
Lesotho Africa1
Mali Africa1 1
Mauritania Africa1
Namibia Africa1 1
Togo Africa1
Tunisia Africa1
Zambia Africa1

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