North America
Mexico
What comes out of the ground here, what is still in it, and who operates the assets.
23 materials produced
0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wollastonite | Mine production | 100,000 | metric tons | 11.6% |
| Cement | Cement production | 42,000 | thousand metric tons | 1.1% |
| Strontium | Mine production | 20,000 | metric tons | 4.4% |
| Molybdenum | Mine production | 17,000 | metric tons | 6.5% |
| Salt | Mine production | 7,000 | thousand metric tons | 2.6% |
| Silver | Mine production | 6,300 | metric tons | 24.2% |
| Gypsum | Mine production | 5,400 | thousand metric tons | 3.4% |
| Industrial Sand & Gravel | Mine production | 2,700 | thousand metric tons | 0.6% |
| Fluorspar | Mine production | 1,500 | thousand metric tons | 15.0% |
| Cadmium | Refinery production | 1,000 | metric tons | 4.3% |
| Zinc | Mine production | 780.0 | thousand metric tons | 6.0% |
| Graphite | Mine production | 740.0 | metric tons | 0.0% |
| Copper | Mine production | 690.0 | thousand metric tons | 3.0% |
| Antimony | Mine production | 600.0 | metric tons | 0.5% |
| Phosphate Rock | Mine production | 450.0 | thousand metric tons | 0.2% |
| Barite | Mine production | 300.0 | thousand metric tons | 3.4% |
| Lead | Mine production | 200.0 | thousand metric tons | 4.4% |
| Gold | Mine production | 140.0 | metric tons | 4.2% |
| Diatomite | Mine production | 100.0 | thousand metric tons | 4.0% |
| Selenium | Refinery production | 88.00 | metric tons | 2.3% |
| Perlite | Production | 30.00 | thousand metric tons | 0.7% |
| Titanium | Titanium sponge metal production | Zero | metric tons | — |
| Vermiculite | Mine production | s | thousand metric tons | — |
What it holds in reserve
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · reserves as most recently published
| Material | Series | Reserves | Unit | Share of world |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphite | Reserves | 3,100,000 | metric tons | 1.0% |
| Fluorspar | Reserves | 68,000 | thousand metric tons | 20.6% |
| Copper | Reserves | 53,000 | thousand metric tons | 5.4% |
| Silver | Reserves | 37,000 | metric tons | 6.1% |
| Phosphate Rock | Reserves | 30,000 | thousand metric tons | 0.0% |
| Antimony | Reserves | 18,000 | metric tons | 0.9% |
| Zinc | Reserves | 14,000 | thousand metric tons | 5.8% |
| Lead | Reserves | 5,600 | thousand metric tons | 5.9% |
| Gold | Reserves | 1,400 | metric tons | 2.1% |
| Molybdenum | Reserves (thousand metric tons) | 130.0 | thousand metric tons | 0.8% |
| Strontium | Reserves | Not applicable | metric tons | — |
| Vermiculite | Reserves | Not applicable | thousand metric tons | — |
| Gypsum | Reserves | Not applicable | thousand metric tons | — |
| Barite | Reserves | Not applicable | thousand metric tons | — |
| Perlite | Reserves | Not applicable | thousand metric tons | — |
| Diatomite | Reserves | Not applicable | thousand metric tons | — |
A leading U.S. import source for
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · major U.S. import sources, 2021–2024