South America
Venezuela
What comes out of the ground here, what is still in it, and who operates the assets.
0 materials produced
0 mines in the atlas
0 plants in the atlas
Export controls in force.
Export ban: Bauxite, cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, copper, gold, rhodium, silver, and thorium (2024).
(USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, table 4 — as of January 2026)
Journeys that pass through Venezuela
All journeys →Material that is dug up here, refined here, or simply crosses the border on its way somewhere else.
Venezuelan extra-heavy crude to diesel, asphalt and aluminium anodes starts here Oil so thick it will not flow down a pipe, and cannot be refined by most refineries on Earth.This country appears in the source tables but has no published production or reserve figures in the current edition.