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Rare Earth Elements · 18Aerospace & Defence Materials · 10Agricultural Minerals · 3Battery Materials · 5Copper & Electrical Materials · 4Energy Raw Materials · 7Industrial Minerals · 35Nuclear Materials · 5Precious Metals · 10Semiconductor Materials · 11Steel & Alloy Metals · 13Wood & Forest Products · 25
Critical Mineral · 63Strategic · 36Construction · 35Byproduct Only · 27Energy Transition · 26Defence · 24Chip Chain · 17Forest Product · 12Recyclable at Scale · 9Magnet Chain · 8Hardwood · 8Softwood · 7Renewable · 6Food Chain · 6Engineered Wood · 4Grid Chain · 2
3 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 |
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Rare Earths (all) criticalA family of seventeen metals that are not actually rare in the ground, but are hard to separate…
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Rare Earth Elements | 390,000metric tons · Mine production | 85,000,000 | China69% of world production† |
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Dysprosium criticalA heavy rare earth added in small amounts to magnets so they keep working when they get hot.
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Rare Earth Elements | not published | — | — |
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Terbium criticalThe scarcest of the four magnet rare earths, used in tiny quantities to make a magnet survive…
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Rare Earth Elements | not published | — | — |
† Worked out from the USGS production table: the leading country’s output divided by the world total. Where the USGS publishes the share itself, that figure is shown instead.
Photographs on this page · 4
- Elementares Neodym.jpg · Tobias Meints · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine, Mountain Pass, California (15470415247).jpg · Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Dysprosium (Element - 66) 2.jpg · James St. John · CC BY 2.0
- Terbium prvek.jpg · Milda 444 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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