¿Qué es?
Magnesia and its relatives, made from magnesite rock or extracted from seawater, which survive heat that would destroy almost any other cheap material.
¿Por qué importa?
Dead-burned magnesia lines the furnaces that make steel and cement. Without refractories there is no high-temperature industry at all.
Las secciones escritas más detalladas para este material aún no han sido publicadas. Todo lo que aparece a continuación se extrae directamente de los conjuntos de datos de origen y está completo.
Quién lo produce
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Mine productionthousand metric tons 2025 (estimado) Total mundial 21,000 thousand metric tons
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · Reported as magnesium oxide (MgO) equivalent. · fuente ↗
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| País | Producción | Cuota mundial |
|---|---|---|
| China | 12,700 | 60.5% |
| Brazil | 1,800 | 8.6% |
| Russia | 1,700 | 8.1% |
| Turkey | 1,600 | 7.6% |
| Austria | 650.0 | 3.1% |
| Spain | 640.0 | 3.0% |
| Australia | 400.0 | 1.9% |
| Other countries | 340.0 | 1.6% |
| Slovakia | 330.0 | 1.6% |
| Canada | 230.0 | 1.1% |
| Iran | 200.0 | 1.0% |
| Greece | 130.0 | 0.6% |
| India | 85.00 | 0.4% |
| United States | Withheld | — |
| Total mundial | 21,000 | 100% |
«Withheld» significa que el USGS suprimió el dato para evitar revelar información de una empresa concreta — no equivale a cero. Las filas por país no siempre suman el total mundial porque la fuente redondea cada cifra de forma independiente y no siempre desglosa una línea de «otros países».
Quién posee las reservas
Reserves
Reservesthousand metric tons 2025
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · fuente ↗
| País | Reservas | Cuota mundial |
|---|---|---|
| Other countries | 2,500,000 | 32.1% |
| Russia | 2,300,000 | 29.5% |
| Slovakia | 1,200,000 | 15.4% |
| China | 700,000 | 9.0% |
| Greece | 280,000 | 3.6% |
| Australia | 280,000 | 3.6% |
| Brazil | 200,000 | 2.6% |
| Turkey | 110,000 | 1.4% |
| India | 66,000 | 0.8% |
| Austria | 49,000 | 0.6% |
| United States | 35,000 | 0.4% |
| Spain | 35,000 | 0.4% |
| Iran | 10,000 | 0.1% |
| Canada | Not applicable | — |
| Total mundial | 7,800,000 | 100% |
Controles de exportación
| País | Control | Se aplica a |
|---|---|---|
| China | Export licensing requirement for materials and technologies | Antimony (2024), bismuth (2025), synthesized diamond (2025), gallium (2023), germanium (2023), graphite (2023), indium (2025), magnesium materials (2024), molybdenum (2025), rare earths (2025), silver (2026), tellurium (2025), tungsten (2025), and items related to lithium batteries and artificial graphite anode materials (2025). ↗ |
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, table 4 — controls in effect as of January 2026, excluding controls since lifted.