Asia
Indonesia
What comes out of the ground here, what is still in it, and who operates the assets.
13 materials produced
2 mines in the atlas
1 plants in the atlas
Export controls in force.
Export ban: Bauxite (2023), copper concentrates (2023), and nickel ore (2020).
(USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, table 4 — as of January 2026)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickel | Mine production | 2,600,000 | metric tons | 66.7% |
| Zeolites (Natural) | Mine production | 120,000 | metric tons | 9.2% |
| Cement | Cement production | 64,000 | thousand metric tons | 1.7% |
| Tin | Mine production | 61,000 | metric tons | 21.0% |
| Cobalt | Mine production | 44,000 | metric tons | 14.2% |
| Bauxite | Bauxite, mine production | 10,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 2.3% |
| Nitrogen (Ammonia) | Plant production | 6,000 | thousand metric tons | 3.8% |
| Industrial Sand & Gravel | Mine production | 3,500 | thousand metric tons | 0.8% |
| Alumina | Alumina, refinery production | 1,500 | thousand metric dry tons | 1.0% |
| Copper | Mine production | 710.0 | thousand metric tons | 3.1% |
| Gold | Mine production | 90.00 | metric tons | 2.7% |
| Zirconium | Zirconium mineral concentrates, mine production (thousand metric tons, gross weight) | 52.00 | thousand metric tons | 4.3% |
| Iodine | Mine production | 50.00 | metric tons | 0.1% |
What it holds in reserve
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · reserves as most recently published
| Material | Series | Reserves | Unit | Share of world |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickel | Reserves | 62,000,000 | metric tons | 44.3% |
| Bauxite | Bauxite reserves | 2,900,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 10.0% |
| Tin | Reserves | 1,400,000 | metric tons | 23.3% |
| Cobalt | Reserves | 760,000 | metric tons | 6.3% |
| Copper | Reserves | 21,000 | thousand metric tons | 2.1% |
| Gold | Reserves | 3,600 | metric tons | 5.5% |
| Zirconium | Zirconium reserves(thousand metric tons, ZrO2 content) | 3,400 | thousand metric tons | 4.9% |
| Iodine | Reserves | Not applicable | metric tons | — |
Mines in the atlas
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Grasberg
One of the largest copper deposits and among the largest gold deposits ever mined.
Sorowako
One of Indonesia's long-established integrated nickel operations.
Processing and manufacturing sites
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