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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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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