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Steel & Alloy Metals

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Steel & Alloy Metals

Iron and the dozen elements that turn it into thousands of different steels.

Iron and slag tapping from a blast furnace tap hole — Випус… · Blast furnace chip worker · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Tin criticalA soft metal with a low melting point, which is why nearly every electrical joint in every…	Steel & Alloy Metals	290,000metric tons · Mine production	6,000,000	China24% of world production

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Iron and slag tapping from a blast furnace tap hole — Випуск продуктів … · Blast furnace chip worker · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cassiterite (GeoDIL number - 37).jpg · Shannon Heinle · CC0

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