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Was hier aus dem Boden kommt, was noch darin steckt und wer die Anlagen betreibt.
Was es produziert
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| Material | Reihe | Produktion | Einheit | Anteil an der Weltproduktion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cement | Cement production | 1,700,000 | thousand metric tons | 44.7% |
| Graphite | Mine production | 1,400,000 | metric tons | 77.8% |
| Gallium | Primary production | 900,000 | kilograms | 100.0% |
| Wollastonite | Mine production | 600,000 | metric tons | 69.8% |
| Lime | Production | 310,000 | thousand metric tons | 73.8% |
| Garnet (Industrial) | Mine production | 280,000 | metric tons | 38.4% |
| Rare Earths (all) | Mine production | 270,000 | metric tons | 69.2% |
| Titanium | Titanium sponge metal production | 260,000 | metric tons | 70.3% |
| Asbestos | Mine production | 250,000 | metric tons | 26.0% |
| Zeolites (Natural) | Mine production | 150,000 | metric tons | 11.5% |
| Nickel | Mine production | 120,000 | metric tons | 3.1% |
| Phosphate Rock | Mine production | 110,000 | thousand metric tons | 44.0% |
| Molybdenum | Mine production | 97,000 | metric tons | 37.3% |
| Alumina | Alumina, refinery production | 93,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 62.0% |
| Industrial Sand & Gravel | Mine production | 92,000 | thousand metric tons | 21.4% |
| Bromine | Production | 90,000 | metric tons | 20.9% |
| Bauxite | Bauxite, mine production | 87,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 19.8% |
| Vanadium | Mine production | 82,000 | metric tons | 74.5% |
| Strontium | Mine production | 80,000 | metric tons | 17.8% |
| Tin | Mine production | 71,000 | metric tons | 24.5% |
| Tungsten | Mine production | 67,000 | metric tons | 78.8% |
| Lithium | Mine production | 62,000 | metric tons | 21.4% |
| Salt | Mine production | 56,000 | thousand metric tons | 20.7% |
| Nitrogen (Ammonia) | Plant production | 49,000 | thousand metric tons | 30.6% |
| Aluminium | Smelter production | 45,000 | thousand metric tons | 60.8% |
| Antimony | Mine production | 40,000 | metric tons | 36.4% |
| Arsenic | Production (arsenic trioxide, gross weight) | 24,000 | metric tons | 39.3% |
| Rhenium | Mine production | 20,000 | kilograms | 24.7% |
| Sulfur | Production, all forms | 19,000 | thousand metric tons | 22.6% |
| Bismuth | Refinery production | 14,000 | metric tons | 87.5% |
| Magnesium Compounds | Mine production | 12,700 | thousand metric tons | 60.5% |
| Gypsum | Mine production | 12,000 | thousand metric tons | 7.5% |
| Cadmium | Refinery production | 9,500 | metric tons | 41.3% |
| Potash | Mine production | 6,300 | thousand metric tons | 12.9% |
| Fluorspar | Mine production | 6,000 | thousand metric tons | 60.0% |
| Zinc | Mine production | 4,100 | thousand metric tons | 31.5% |
| Feldspar & Nepheline Syenite | Mine production | 3,700 | thousand metric tons | 11.9% |
| Silicon | Ferrosilicon | 3,500 | thousand metric tons | 70.0% |
| Silver | Mine production | 3,400 | metric tons | 13.1% |
| Barite | Mine production | 2,200 | thousand metric tons | 25.3% |
| Cobalt | Mine production | 2,000 | metric tons | 0.6% |
| Selenium | Refinery production | 2,000 | metric tons | 52.6% |
| Lead | Mine production | 1,900 | thousand metric tons | 42.2% |
| Copper | Mine production | 1,800 | thousand metric tons | 7.8% |
| Perlite | Production | 1,500 | thousand metric tons | 32.6% |
| Magnesium Metal | Smelter production | 950.0 | thousand metric tons | 86.4% |
| Tellurium | Refinery production | 800.0 | metric tons | 80.0% |
| Indium | Refinery production | 760.0 | metric tons | 69.1% |
| Manganese | Mine production | 700.0 | thousand metric tons | 3.5% |
| Gold | Mine production | 380.0 | metric tons | 11.5% |
| Mercury | Mine production | 200.0 | metric tons | 95.2% |
| Diatomite | Mine production | 140.0 | thousand metric tons | 5.6% |
| Zirconium | Zirconium mineral concentrates, mine production (thousand metric tons, gross weight) | 100.0 | thousand metric tons | 8.3% |
| Tantalum | Mine production | 80.00 | metric tons | 3.2% |
| Beryllium | Mine production | 77.00 | metric tons | 17.9% |
| Vermiculite | Mine production | 40.00 | thousand metric tons | 8.7% |
| Niobium | Mine production | 40.00 | metric tons | 0.0% |
| Helium | Helium Production | 3.00 | million cubic meters | 1.6% |
Was es als Reserve hält
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · Reserven gemäß letzter Veröffentlichung
| Material | Reihe | Reserven | Einheit | Anteil an der Weltproduktion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphite | Reserves | 100,000,000 | metric tons | 32.3% |
| Rare Earths (all) | Reserves | 44,000,000 | metric tons | 51.8% |
| Garnet (Industrial) | Reserves | 37,000,000 | metric tons | — |
| Strontium | Reserves | 12,000,000 | metric tons | — |
| Asbestos | Reserves | 7,100,000 | metric tons | 4.7% |
| Niobium | Reserves | 6,500,000 | metric tons | 31.0% |
| Lithium | Reserves | 4,600,000 | metric tons | 12.4% |
| Nickel | Reserves | 4,400,000 | metric tons | 3.1% |
| Phosphate Rock | Reserves | 3,400,000 | thousand metric tons | 4.7% |
| Tungsten | Reserves | 2,500,000 | metric tons | 53.2% |
| Gypsum | Reserves | 1,800,000 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Tin | Reserves | 1,200,000 | metric tons | 20.0% |
| Antimony | Reserves | 830,000 | metric tons | 41.5% |
| Feldspar & Nepheline Syenite | Reserves | 730,000 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Bauxite | Bauxite reserves | 710,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 2.4% |
| Magnesium Compounds | Reserves | 700,000 | thousand metric tons | 9.0% |
| Manganese | Reserves | 260,000 | thousand metric tons | 15.3% |
| Tantalum | Reserves | 240,000 | metric tons | — |
| Rhenium | Reserves | 200,000 | kilograms | — |
| Cobalt | Reserves | 160,000 | metric tons | 1.3% |
| Bromine | Reserves | 130,000 | metric tons | — |
| Barite | Reserves | 120,000 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Diatomite | Reserves | 120,000 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Fluorspar | Reserves | 110,000 | thousand metric tons | 33.3% |
| Silver | Reserves | 67,000 | metric tons | 11.0% |
| Zinc | Reserves | 60,000 | thousand metric tons | 25.0% |
| Copper | Reserves | 41,000 | thousand metric tons | 4.2% |
| Perlite | Reserves | 32,000 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Lead | Reserves | 22,000 | thousand metric tons | 23.2% |
| Molybdenum | Reserves (thousand metric tons) | 7,800 | thousand metric tons | 45.9% |
| Vanadium | Reserves | 5,800 | metric tons | 27.6% |
| Gold | Reserves | 3,200 | metric tons | 4.8% |
| Vermiculite | Reserves | 2,900 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Zirconium | Zirconium reserves(thousand metric tons, ZrO2 content) | 500.0 | thousand metric tons | 0.7% |
| Potash | Reserves, Recoverable ore | Not applicable | thousand metric tons | — |
| Helium | Helium Reserves | Not applicable | million cubic meters | — |
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Bayan Obo
The largest rare-earth deposit in the world.

Southern China Ion-Adsorption Clays
Historically the dominant world source of heavy rare earths.

Xikuangshan
The largest antimony deposit in the world, often called the 'antimony capital'.
Aufbereitungs- und Fertigungsstandorte
CATL Ningde Plants · GigafactoryChinese NdFeB Magnet Cluster · Magnet plantGuixi Smelter · SmelterGanzhou Rare Earth Cluster · Separation plantHuayou Cobalt Refineries · Chemical plantJinchuan Group Smelter-Refinery · RefineryQinghai & Sichuan Lithium Chemical Cluster · Chemical plantXinjiang & Inner Mongolia Polysilicon Cluster · Chemical plantRouten, die hier durchführen China
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Southern Chinese clay to the dysprosium that lets a magnet run hot beginnt hier Grades under a tenth of a percent, and almost the only heavy rare earths on the market. A quarry in North Carolina to the chip in your phone The most valuable sand on Earth, and almost all of it comes from one small district. Australian rare earths to a magnet in a motor Mined in Australia, cracked in Malaysia, magnetised in China, and fitted in Germany. Australian spodumene to a battery, the fast way Eight weeks instead of eighteen months, at the cost of a great deal more energy. 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. 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. Congolese cobalt to a battery cathode A metal almost nobody mines on purpose, carried out of a landlocked country by truck. Congolese oxide ore to finished cathode, without a smelter When the ore is oxide, acid will do what a smelter would otherwise have to. Guinean bauxite to an aluminium window frame Four tonnes of tropical soil, two tonnes of white powder, one tonne of metal — and the metal is made wherever the power is… Indonesian laterite to a battery cathode A country that banned raw ore exports and built the processing industry instead. Pilbara iron ore to Chinese steel The largest material flow on Earth: dig it, crush it, screen it, and put it on a boat.Eine führende US-Importquelle für
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