South America
Brazil
What comes out of the ground here, what is still in it, and who operates the assets.
27 materials produced
1 mines in the atlas
0 plants in the atlas
What it produces
Maps →USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · 2025 (estimated) · each row keeps the unit the source uses for that commodity · source ↗
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| Material | Series | Production | Unit | Share of world |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asbestos | Mine production | 150,000 | metric tons | 15.6% |
| Niobium | Mine production | 104,000 | metric tons | 92.9% |
| Nickel | Mine production | 70,000 | metric tons | 1.8% |
| Cement | Cement production | 67,000 | thousand metric tons | 1.8% |
| Graphite | Mine production | 65,000 | metric tons | 3.6% |
| Bauxite | Bauxite, mine production | 33,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 7.5% |
| Tin | Mine production | 28,000 | metric tons | 9.7% |
| Lithium | Mine production | 12,000 | metric tons | 4.1% |
| Alumina | Alumina, refinery production | 11,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 7.3% |
| Lime | Production | 8,200 | thousand metric tons | 2.0% |
| Salt | Mine production | 6,600 | thousand metric tons | 2.4% |
| Gypsum | Mine production | 5,800 | thousand metric tons | 3.6% |
| Vanadium | Mine production | 5,300 | metric tons | 4.8% |
| Phosphate Rock | Mine production | 5,000 | thousand metric tons | 2.0% |
| Rare Earths (all) | Mine production | 2,000 | metric tons | 0.5% |
| Chromium | Mine production | 2,000 | thousand metric tons | 3.9% |
| Magnesium Compounds | Mine production | 1,800 | thousand metric tons | 8.6% |
| Aluminium | Smelter production | 1,200 | thousand metric tons | 1.6% |
| Manganese | Mine production | 800.0 | thousand metric tons | 4.0% |
| Potash | Mine production | 300.0 | thousand metric tons | 0.6% |
| Tantalum | Mine production | 190.0 | metric tons | 7.6% |
| Silicon | Ferrosilicon | 170.0 | thousand metric tons | 3.4% |
| Fluorspar | Mine production | 100.0 | thousand metric tons | 1.0% |
| Gold | Mine production | 80.00 | metric tons | 2.4% |
| Beryllium | Mine production | 80.00 | metric tons | 18.6% |
| Vermiculite | Mine production | 50.00 | thousand metric tons | 10.9% |
| Magnesium Metal | Smelter production | 20.00 | thousand metric tons | 1.8% |
What it holds in reserve
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · reserves as most recently published
| Material | Series | Reserves | Unit | Share of world |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphite | Reserves | 74,000,000 | metric tons | 23.9% |
| Rare Earths (all) | Reserves | 21,000,000 | metric tons | 24.7% |
| Nickel | Reserves | 16,000,000 | metric tons | 11.4% |
| Niobium | Reserves | 14,000,000 | metric tons | 66.7% |
| Asbestos | Reserves | 11,000,000 | metric tons | 7.3% |
| Bauxite | Bauxite reserves | 1,700,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 5.9% |
| Phosphate Rock | Reserves | 1,600,000 | thousand metric tons | 2.2% |
| Tin | Reserves | 700,000 | metric tons | 11.7% |
| Lithium | Reserves | 540,000 | metric tons | 1.5% |
| Gypsum | Reserves | 450,000 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Manganese | Reserves | 300,000 | thousand metric tons | 17.6% |
| Magnesium Compounds | Reserves | 200,000 | thousand metric tons | 2.6% |
| Tantalum | Reserves | 40,000 | metric tons | — |
| Potash | Reserves, Recoverable ore | 10,000 | thousand metric tons | 0.1% |
| Vermiculite | Reserves | 6,600 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Fluorspar | Reserves | 2,500 | thousand metric tons | 0.8% |
| Gold | Reserves | 2,500 | metric tons | 3.8% |
| Chromium | Reserves: Cr2O3 content | 1,000 | thousand metric tons | 0.2% |
| Vanadium | Reserves | 94.00 | metric tons | 0.4% |
Mines in the atlas
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Companies headquartered here
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USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · major U.S. import sources, 2021–2024