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Battery Materials

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Battery Materials

What goes inside a rechargeable cell — and what the cell is wired to.

Tesla Gigafactory 1 - December 2019 · Smnt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

All · 146 Rare Earth Elements · 18 Aerospace & Defence Materials · 10 Agricultural Minerals · 3 Battery Materials · 5 Copper & Electrical Materials · 4 Energy Raw Materials · 7 Industrial Minerals · 35 Nuclear Materials · 5 Precious Metals · 10 Semiconductor Materials · 11 Steel & Alloy Metals · 13 Wood & Forest Products · 25

Critical Mineral · 63 Strategic · 36 Construction · 35 Byproduct Only · 27 Energy Transition · 26 Defence · 24 Chip Chain · 17 Forest Product · 12 Recyclable at Scale · 9 Magnet Chain · 8 Hardwood · 8 Softwood · 7 Renewable · 6 Food Chain · 6 Engineered Wood · 4 Grid Chain · 2

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1 materials shown. Figures are from USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · as each source defines it for each commodity · source ↗

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Material	Shelf	World production 2025	World reserves	Leading producer	U.S. imported
Cobalt criticalA hard, bluish metal that keeps a battery's cathode stable so it does not overheat, and that…	Battery Materials	310,000metric tons · Mine production	12,000,000	Congo (Kinshasa)74% of world production	79%

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