Guided View
New to ore grades, concentrate, refining and by-products? We explain every term as you browse, in plain English. Same data, with the help built in.
Expert View
You already know the industry. Just the data: clean, fast and compact, with no extra explanations. This is the default view.
Theme
Interface language
Depth
Material pages are written at four levels. Pick one on any material page and it is remembered.
The element the very first transistors were made from, now used mainly for infrared lenses and fibre-optic glass.
Why does it matter?
Night-vision and thermal-imaging optics are made of germanium because it is transparent to the infrared light warm objects emit.
Deeper written sections for this material have not been published yet. Everything below is drawn straight from the source datasets and is complete.
Read the numbers correctly.
Recovered as a by-product of zinc refining and from coal fly ash; refinery output is not separately published by many producers.
Germanium dioxide, zone-refined metal, IR-grade optics blanks.
annual average, dollars per kilogram: Germanium dioxide
Annual averagedollars per kilogram
2021 · 770.0high 2,500 dollars per kilogram2025 · 2,500
Basis: annual average, dollars per kilogram: Germanium dioxide. Annual averages as published in USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · source ↗. These are reference annual averages, not a live market quote.
annual average, dollars per kilogram: Germanium metal
Annual averagedollars per kilogram
2021 · 1,187high 4,100 dollars per kilogram2025 · 4,100
Basis: annual average, dollars per kilogram: Germanium metal. Annual averages as published in USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · source ↗. These are reference annual averages, not a live market quote.
Red Dog, United States —
One of the largest zinc mines in the world.
Tek Alaska - Red Dog Mine Port Site Crew (344…,
Public domain
via Wikimedia Commons
