The Materials Atlas

전체 · 121 희토류 원소 · 18 항공우주 및 방위 소재 · 10 농업용 광물 · 3 배터리 소재 · 5 구리 및 전기 소재 · 4 에너지 원자재 · 7 산업용 광물 · 35 핵 물질 · 5 귀금속 · 10 반도체 소재 · 11 철강 및 합금 금속 · 13

핵심 광물 · 63 전략적 · 36 부산물 전용 · 27 에너지 전환 · 26 건설 · 25 방위 · 24 반도체 공급망 · 17 대규모 재활용 가능 · 8 자석 공급망 · 8 식품 공급망 · 6 전력망 공급망 · 2

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소재	대륙붕	2025년 세계 생산량	세계 매장량	주요 생산국	미국 수입량
Alumina 핵심 광물 A fine white powder of aluminium oxide, the halfway product between bauxite rock and aluminium…	구리 및 전기 소재	150,000thousand metric dry tons · Alumina, refinery production	—	—	71%
Aluminium 핵심 광물 A light silvery metal made by passing an enormous electric current through dissolved bauxite —…	구리 및 전기 소재	74,000thousand metric tons · Smelter production	—	—	60%	Al
Antimony 핵심 광물 A brittle, silvery metalloid used mostly to stop things burning, and in the primers and tracer…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	110,000metric tons · Mine production	2,000,000	China — 36% of world production	—	Sb
Argon Almost one percent of the air you are breathing, and the cheapest way to keep oxygen away from…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	—	Ar
Arsenic 핵심 광물 Famous as a poison, but in ultra-pure form it is half of gallium arsenide, the compound behind…	반도체 소재	61,000metric tons · Production (arsenic trioxide, gross weight)	—	Peru — 49% of world production	100%	As
Asbestos A group of naturally fibrous minerals that are strong, fireproof, cheap — and cause fatal lung…	산업용 광물	960,000metric tons · Mine production	150,000,000	—	100%
Barite 핵심 광물 A very heavy, soft mineral used mostly to weigh down drilling mud so an oil well does not blow…	산업용 광물	8,700thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	India — 34% of world production	75%
Bauxite 핵심 광물 A reddish soil-like rock, formed where tropical rain has rotted rock for millions of years, and…	구리 및 전기 소재	440,000thousand metric dry tons · Bauxite, mine production	29,000,000	—	75%
Beryllium 핵심 광물 A very light, very stiff metal that is transparent to X-rays and dangerous to breathe as dust.	핵 물질	430.0metric tons · Mine production	—	United States — 53% of world production	—	Be
Bismuth 핵심 광물 A heavy metal that is, unusually, not very toxic — which is why it replaces lead in solders…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	16,000metric tons · Refinery production	—	China — 88% of world production	92%	Bi
Boron 핵심 광물 An element that makes glass resist thermal shock, fibreglass strong, and — with iron and…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	Turkey — W% of world production	—	B
Bromine The only non-metal that is liquid at room temperature, pulled out of very salty water.	산업용 광물	430,000metric tons · Production	—	—	25%	Br
Cadmium A toxic soft metal recovered from zinc refining, now used mainly in thin-film solar panels…	철강 및 합금 금속	23,000metric tons · Refinery production	—	—	25%	Cd
Caesium 핵심 광물 The softest metal, liquid on a warm day, and the element that defines the second.	항공우주 및 방위 소재	미공표	—	—	100%	Cs
Cement Powdered limestone and clay cooked at 1,450 C, which sets hard when mixed with water — the glue…	산업용 광물	3,800,000thousand metric tons · Cement production	—	—	21%
Cerium 핵심 광물 The most abundant rare earth — more common in the crust than copper — mostly used as a…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Ce
Chromium 핵심 광물 The element that makes stainless steel stainless — at about eleven percent chromium, steel…	철강 및 합금 금속	51,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	540,000	South Africa — 45% of world production	79%	Cr
Clays Soft, fine-grained rock made of microscopic plates that slide over each other when wet — which…	산업용 광물	20,000thousand metric tons · Mine production: Bentonite, rounded	—	—	—
Cobalt 핵심 광물 A hard, bluish metal that keeps a battery's cathode stable so it does not overheat, and that…	배터리 소재	310,000metric tons · Mine production	12,000,000	Congo (Kinshasa) — 74% of world production	79%	Co
Construction Sand & Gravel The most-mined material on Earth by weight, and the one nobody thinks of as mining.	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	—
Copper 핵심 광물 The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans…	구리 및 전기 소재	23,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	980,000	Chile — 23% of world production	—	Cu
Crude Oil Ancient marine plankton, cooked underground for millions of years into a liquid that carries…	에너지 원자재	미공표	—	—	—
Crushed Stone Rock blasted and broken to size — limestone, granite, trap rock — and, with sand, the largest…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	—
Diamond (Industrial) Diamond used not as a gem but as a cutting edge — most of it grown in a press rather than dug…	산업용 광물	38.00million carats · Mine production	1,700	—	—
Diatomite Rock made from the glass skeletons of microscopic algae, so porous that a lump of it floats on…	산업용 광물	2,500thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—
Dimension Stone Rock cut into blocks and slabs rather than crushed — granite, marble, limestone, slate — sold…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	85%
Dysprosium 핵심 광물 A heavy rare earth added in small amounts to magnets so they keep working when they get hot.	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Dy
Erbium 핵심 광물 The rare earth that amplifies light inside a fibre-optic cable without ever turning it back…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Er
Europium 핵심 광물 The rare earth that glows red under ultraviolet light, and which for decades put the red in…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Eu
Feldspar & Nepheline Syenite The most abundant mineral group in the crust, used as the flux that lets glass and ceramic melt…	산업용 광물	31,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	95%
Fluorspar 핵심 광물 Calcium fluoride, the mineral that every fluorine atom in industry ultimately comes from —…	산업용 광물	10,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	330,000	China — 60% of world production	100%
Gadolinium 핵심 광물 A rare earth that absorbs neutrons better than almost anything, and that makes MRI scans easier…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Gd
Gallium 핵심 광물 A silvery metal that melts in your hand, and the basis of the compound semiconductors in fast…	반도체 소재	900,000kilograms · Primary production	—	China — 100% of world production	100%	Ga
Garnet (Industrial) A hard, sharp-edged mineral more familiar as a gemstone, used industrially as the grit in…	산업용 광물	730,000metric tons · Mine production	—	—	71%
Gemstones Minerals people want because of how they look — hardness, clarity and colour, priced on rarity…	귀금속	69,000 thousands of carats · Mine production	2,000,000	—	99%
Germanium 핵심 광물 The element the very first transistors were made from, now used mainly for infrared lenses and…	반도체 소재	미공표	—	China — NA% of world production	50%	Ge
Gold The metal that does not tarnish, does not corrode and never runs out once mined — which is why…	귀금속	3,300metric tons · Mine production	66,000	—	—	Au
Graphite 핵심 광물 Pure carbon in soft, slippery sheets — the same stuff as pencil lead — and the material that…	배터리 소재	1,800,000metric tons · Mine production	310,000,000	China — 78% of world production	100%	C
Gypsum A soft white rock that becomes plasterboard — the interior surface of most buildings in the…	산업용 광물	160,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—
Hafnium 핵심 광물 Zirconium's chemical shadow — always found with it, almost impossible to separate from it, and…	핵 물질	미공표	—	—	—	Hf
Helium The only element cold enough to keep an MRI magnet superconducting, and the only one light…	산업용 광물	190.0million cubic meters · Helium Production	—	—	—	He
High-Purity Quartz Quartz sand so free of other elements that it can be melted into the crucible a silicon crystal…	반도체 소재	미공표	—	—	—
Holmium 핵심 광물 The rare earth with the strongest magnetic moment of any element, used in the pole pieces of…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Ho
Indium 핵심 광물 A soft metal whose oxide is both transparent and electrically conductive — the invisible wiring…	반도체 소재	1,100metric tons · Refinery production	—	China — 69% of world production	100%	In
Industrial Sand & Gravel Sand selected for what it is made of rather than what size it is — nearly pure quartz, for…	산업용 광물	430,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—
Iodine A purple-black element that turns straight from solid to vapour, extracted from ancient nitrate…	산업용 광물	34,000metric tons · Mine production	6,300,000	—	50%	I
Iridium 핵심 광물 The most corrosion-resistant metal known, and the second densest — a litre of it weighs about…	귀금속	미공표	—	—	—	Ir
Iron & Steel Iron with a little carbon in it, and the most-produced manufactured material on the planet.	철강 및 합금 금속	360.0million metric tons · world iron slag production was estimated to be between 330 million and 390 million tons,	—	—	—
Iron & Steel Scrap Old steel collected to be melted into new steel — the largest recycling stream on the planet by…	철강 및 합금 금속	미공표	—	—	—
Iron Ore Rust-coloured rock that is roughly one-third to two-thirds iron, and the single largest tonnage…	철강 및 합금 금속	2,600,000thousand metric tons · Mine production: Usable ore, rounded	87,000	—	—	Fe
Iron Oxide Pigments Rust, refined — the reds, yellows, browns and blacks that have coloured paint and pottery since…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	—
Krypton A rare noble gas, about one part per million of the air, separated only where enough air is…	반도체 소재	110.0million liters · Rare gases production, (million liters)	—	—	93%	Kr
Kyanite & Related Minerals Blue-bladed crystals that expand rather than shrink when fired, which makes them the backbone…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	—
Lanthanum 핵심 광물 The first of the rare earths, used by the tonne in the catalysts that crack crude oil into…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	La
Lead 핵심 광물 A soft, dense, blue-grey metal that blocks radiation and stores charge cheaply — and that is…	철강 및 합금 금속	4,500thousand metric tons · Mine production	95,000	China — 42% of world production	—	Pb
Lime Limestone burned until it becomes quicklime — a chemical used to purify steel, treat water and…	산업용 광물	420,000thousand metric tons · Production	—	—	—
Lithium 핵심 광물 A soft, silvery metal so light it floats on water, and the element that lets a rechargeable…	배터리 소재	290,000metric tons · Mine production	37,000,000	Australia — 32% of world production	50%	Li
Lutetium 핵심 광물 The last and densest rare earth, used in the crystals that detect gamma rays inside a PET…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Lu
Magnesium Compounds Magnesia and its relatives, made from magnesite rock or extracted from seawater, which survive…	산업용 광물	21,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	7,800,000	—	59%
Magnesium Metal 핵심 광물 The lightest structural metal, about a third lighter than aluminium, and the ingredient that…	철강 및 합금 금속	1,100thousand metric tons · Smelter production	—	—	75%	Mg
Manganese 핵심 광물 A brittle grey metal that steel cannot be made without, and that is now being used to stretch…	배터리 소재	20,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	1,700,000	South Africa — 37% of world production	100%	Mn
Mercury The only metal that is liquid at room temperature, and one of the most tightly regulated…	철강 및 합금 금속	210.0metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—	Hg
Metallurgical Coal Coal of the specific quality that, when baked without air, turns into coke — the hard carbon…	에너지 원자재	미공표	—	—	—
Mica A mineral that splits into sheets so thin you can see through them, and that resists both heat…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	—
Molybdenum A silvery metal added to steel so it keeps its strength at high temperature and under pressure.	철강 및 합금 금속	260,000metric tons · Mine production	17,000	—	—	Mo
Natural Gas Mostly methane, the lightest hydrocarbon, and the source of nearly all the hydrogen used by…	에너지 원자재	미공표	—	—	—
Neodymium 핵심 광물 The rare earth at the heart of the strongest magnet ever made — the kind in headphones, hard…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Nd
Neon A noble gas so unreactive it forms no compounds at all, separated out of ordinary air in tiny…	반도체 소재	800.0million liters · Rare gases production, (million liters)	—	—	52%	Ne
Nickel 핵심 광물 A silvery metal that resists rust, which is why it goes into stainless steel — and, more…	배터리 소재	3,900,000metric tons · Mine production	140,000,000	Indonesia — 67% of world production	41%	Ni
Niobium 핵심 광물 A metal that makes steel much stronger when added in tiny amounts — a few hundred grams per…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	112,000metric tons · Mine production	21,000,000	—	100%	Nb
Nitrogen (Ammonia) Nitrogen pulled out of the air and joined to hydrogen under pressure — the invention that…	농업용 광물	160,000thousand metric tons · Plant production	—	—	—	N
Oil Sands & Bitumen Sand soaked in oil so thick it will not flow — it has to be mined like ore or heated…	에너지 원자재	미공표	—	—	—
Osmium The densest naturally occurring element, and one of the least used — most of it sits unrefined…	귀금속	미공표	—	—	—	Os
Palladium 핵심 광물 Platinum's cheaper cousin for most of the twentieth century, then briefly more expensive than…	귀금속	190,000kilograms · Mine production: Palladium, rounded	—	Russia — 44% of world production	57%	Pd
Peat Half-rotted plant matter from waterlogged bogs — the first stage on the road from a swamp to a…	에너지 원자재	17,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	13,000,000	—	80%
Perlite A volcanic glass with water trapped inside it that pops like popcorn when heated, expanding to…	산업용 광물	4,600thousand metric tons · Production	—	—	23%
Petroleum Coke The solid carbon left at the bottom of an oil refinery, and the raw material for both aluminium…	에너지 원자재	미공표	—	—	—
Phosphate Rock 핵심 광물 Rock full of the element phosphorus — the P in fertiliser, and now the P in the LFP batteries…	농업용 광물	250,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	73,000,000	China — 44% of world production	—	P
Platinum 핵심 광물 A dense, unreactive metal that speeds up chemical reactions without being consumed by them.	귀금속	170,000kilograms · Mine production: Platinum, rounded	—	South Africa — 71% of world production	89%	Pt
Platinum-Group Metals 핵심 광물 Six metals — platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium — that occur together…	귀금속	미공표	76,000,000	—	—
Potash 핵심 광물 Potassium salts mined from ancient dried-up seas — the K in NPK fertiliser, which plants need…	농업용 광물	49,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	10,000,000	Canada — 31% of world production	92%	K
Praseodymium 핵심 광물 Neodymium's near-twin, so alike that magnet makers usually do not bother separating the two and…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Pr
Promethium The one rare earth with no stable form at all — every atom of it is radioactive and decays…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Pm
Pumice & Pumicite Volcanic froth — rock so full of gas bubbles that it floats — quarried for lightweight concrete…	산업용 광물	20,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—
Rare Earths (all) 핵심 광물 A family of seventeen metals that are not actually rare in the ground, but are hard to separate…	희토류 원소	390,000metric tons · Mine production	85,000,000	—	—
Rhenium 핵심 광물 One of the rarest metals in the crust, recovered from molybdenum roasting, and the ingredient…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	81,000kilograms · Mine production	—	Chile — 37% of world production	75%	Re
Rhodium 핵심 광물 The rarest of the metals traded in any volume, produced in tens of tonnes a year, and the only…	귀금속	미공표	—	—	—	Rh
Rubidium 핵심 광물 Caesium's cheaper neighbour, recovered from the same rare deposits, and the basis of the atomic…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	미공표	—	—	100%	Rb
Ruthenium 핵심 광물 A hard platinum-group metal used in tiny quantities inside hard drives and increasingly in chip…	귀금속	미공표	—	—	—	Ru
Salt Sodium chloride — the seasoning on a table, and the feedstock for the chlorine and caustic soda…	산업용 광물	270,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	31%
Samarium 핵심 광물 The rare earth in the magnet that works where neodymium cannot: very hot, or very cold, or in a…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Sm
Scandium 핵심 광물 A light metal that makes aluminium dramatically stronger and weldable — and which is produced…	희토류 원소	80.00metric tons · global production	—	China — NA% of world production	100%	Sc
Selenium An element recovered from copper refinery slimes, used in glass, in animal feed and in…	철강 및 합금 금속	3,800metric tons · Refinery production	—	—	50%	Se
Silicon 핵심 광물 The second-most-common element in the Earth's crust — ordinary sand — purified until only one…	반도체 소재	5,000thousand metric tons · Ferrosilicon	—	China — 87% of world production	—	Si
Silicon Carbide & Abrasives Man-made grit — silicon carbide and fused alumina — harder than almost every natural mineral…	산업용 광물	미공표	—	—	—
Silver 핵심 광물 The best electrical conductor there is, and the metal that has been used as money for longer…	귀금속	26,000metric tons · Mine production	610,000	Mexico — 24% of world production	77%	Ag
Soda Ash Sodium carbonate, mined from trona rock or made from salt, and the second ingredient in almost…	산업용 광물	19,000thousand metric tons · Mine production: natural, rounded	25,000,000	—	—
Strontium A soft metal whose salts burn bright red, which is why every red firework contains it.	산업용 광물	450,000metric tons · Mine production	—	—	100%	Sr
Sulfur A yellow element stripped out of oil and gas to stop it polluting, then turned into sulfuric…	산업용 광물	84,000thousand metric tons · Production, all forms	—	—	—	S
Talc & Pyrophyllite The softest mineral there is — a fingernail scratches it — used as a filler that makes plastics…	산업용 광물	6,900thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—
Tantalum 핵심 광물 A dense metal whose oxide layer stores charge extremely reliably, which is why it is in the…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	2,500metric tons · Mine production	—	Congo (Kinshasa) — 52% of world production	100%	Ta
Tellurium 핵심 광물 A brittle, silvery element recovered from the slime at the bottom of a copper refinery tank…	반도체 소재	1,000metric tons · Refinery production	—	China — 80% of world production	25%	Te
Terbium 핵심 광물 The scarcest of the four magnet rare earths, used in tiny quantities to make a magnet survive…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Tb
Thallium A soft, extremely toxic metal recovered in tiny amounts from smelter dusts.	반도체 소재	미공표	—	—	—	Tl
Thermal Coal Coal burned to make steam and therefore electricity — still, despite everything, one of the…	에너지 원자재	미공표	—	—	—
Thorium A weakly radioactive metal three to four times more common than uranium, which can be bred into…	핵 물질	미공표	—	—	—	Th
Thulium 핵심 광물 The least abundant stable rare earth, used in portable X-ray sources and in surgical lasers.	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Tm
Tin 핵심 광물 A soft metal with a low melting point, which is why nearly every electrical joint in every…	철강 및 합금 금속	290,000metric tons · Mine production	6,000,000	China — 24% of world production	—	Sn
Titanium 핵심 광물 A metal as strong as steel at about half the weight, which does not corrode in seawater or in…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	370,000metric tons · Titanium sponge metal production	—	—	—	Ti
Titanium Mineral Concentrates 핵심 광물 Black beach sand — ilmenite and rutile — that is the starting point both for titanium metal and…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	9,400thousand metric tons · Mine production: ilmenite, rounded	490,000	—	88%
Tungsten 핵심 광물 The metal with the highest melting point of them all — you can heat it to 3,400 C before it…	항공우주 및 방위 소재	85,000metric tons · Mine production	4,700,000	China — 79% of world production	50%	W
Uranium A heavy, faintly radioactive metal whose nucleus can be split, releasing about two million…	핵 물질	미공표	—	—	—	U
Vanadium 핵심 광물 A metal that makes rebar dramatically stronger in tiny doses, and that can also store…	철강 및 합금 금속	110,000metric tons · Mine production	21,000	China — 75% of world production	41%	V
Vermiculite A mica-like mineral that unfolds into a concertina when heated, becoming light, fireproof and…	산업용 광물	460.0thousand metric tons · Mine production	—	—	25%
Wollastonite A needle-shaped white mineral used as a safe replacement for asbestos fibre in brakes, boards…	산업용 광물	860,000metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—
Xenon The rarest stable gas in the atmosphere — under one part in ten million — and the heaviest…	반도체 소재	12.00million liters · Rare gases production, (million liters)	—	—	98%	Xe
Ytterbium 핵심 광물 A rare earth used in the fibre lasers that cut steel in factories, and in some of the most…	희토류 원소	미공표	—	—	—	Yb
Yttrium 핵심 광물 Counted as a rare earth even though it sits elsewhere on the periodic table, because it behaves…	희토류 원소	12,500metric tons · mine production of Y2O3 equivalent contained in rare-earth mineral concentrates	—	China — NA% of world production	100%	Y
Zeolites (Natural) Minerals full of molecule-sized cages that trap specific ions and gases and let everything else…	산업용 광물	1,300,000metric tons · Mine production	—	—	—
Zinc 핵심 광물 The metal that steel is dipped in so it does not rust — a sacrificial coating that corrodes…	철강 및 합금 금속	13,000thousand metric tons · Mine production	240,000	China — 32% of world production	—	Zn
Zirconium 핵심 광물 A metal that barely absorbs neutrons, which is why nuclear fuel rods are wrapped in it, and…	핵 물질	1,200thousand metric tons · Zirconium mineral concentrates, mine production (thousand metric tons, gross weight)	70,000	—	—	Zr

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Alumina

A fine white powder of aluminium oxide, the halfway product between bauxite rock and aluminium metal.

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Aluminium

A light silvery metal made by passing an enormous electric current through dissolved bauxite — which is why people call…

구리 및 전기 소재Al

Antimony

A brittle, silvery metalloid used mostly to stop things burning, and in the primers and tracer rounds of ammunition.

항공우주 및 방위 소재Sb

Argon

Almost one percent of the air you are breathing, and the cheapest way to keep oxygen away from hot metal.

산업용 광물Ar

Arsenic

Famous as a poison, but in ultra-pure form it is half of gallium arsenide, the compound behind high-frequency radio…

반도체 소재As

Asbestos

A group of naturally fibrous minerals that are strong, fireproof, cheap — and cause fatal lung disease decades after…

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Barite

A very heavy, soft mineral used mostly to weigh down drilling mud so an oil well does not blow out.

산업용 광물

Bauxite

A reddish soil-like rock, formed where tropical rain has rotted rock for millions of years, and the only ore aluminium…

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Beryllium

A very light, very stiff metal that is transparent to X-rays and dangerous to breathe as dust.

핵 물질Be

Bismuth

A heavy metal that is, unusually, not very toxic — which is why it replaces lead in solders, plumbing brass and stomach…

항공우주 및 방위 소재Bi

Boron

An element that makes glass resist thermal shock, fibreglass strong, and — with iron and neodymium — the strongest…

산업용 광물B

Bromine

The only non-metal that is liquid at room temperature, pulled out of very salty water.

산업용 광물Br

Cadmium

A toxic soft metal recovered from zinc refining, now used mainly in thin-film solar panels rather than in the batteries…

철강 및 합금 금속Cd

Caesium

The softest metal, liquid on a warm day, and the element that defines the second.

항공우주 및 방위 소재Cs

Cement

Powdered limestone and clay cooked at 1,450 C, which sets hard when mixed with water — the glue that holds concrete…

산업용 광물

Cerium

The most abundant rare earth — more common in the crust than copper — mostly used as a polishing powder and in…

희토류 원소Ce

Chromium

The element that makes stainless steel stainless — at about eleven percent chromium, steel grows an invisible film that…

철강 및 합금 금속Cr

Clays

Soft, fine-grained rock made of microscopic plates that slide over each other when wet — which is why it can be shaped…

산업용 광물

Cobalt

A hard, bluish metal that keeps a battery's cathode stable so it does not overheat, and that holds its strength when…

배터리 소재Co

Construction Sand & Gravel

The most-mined material on Earth by weight, and the one nobody thinks of as mining.

산업용 광물

Copper

The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting for…

구리 및 전기 소재Cu

Crude Oil

Ancient marine plankton, cooked underground for millions of years into a liquid that carries more energy per litre than…

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Crushed Stone

Rock blasted and broken to size — limestone, granite, trap rock — and, with sand, the largest tonnage humans move.

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Diamond (Industrial)

Diamond used not as a gem but as a cutting edge — most of it grown in a press rather than dug out of the ground.

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Diatomite

Rock made from the glass skeletons of microscopic algae, so porous that a lump of it floats on water.

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Dimension Stone

Rock cut into blocks and slabs rather than crushed — granite, marble, limestone, slate — sold for what it looks like.

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Dysprosium

A heavy rare earth added in small amounts to magnets so they keep working when they get hot.

희토류 원소Dy

Erbium

The rare earth that amplifies light inside a fibre-optic cable without ever turning it back into electricity.

희토류 원소Er

Europium

The rare earth that glows red under ultraviolet light, and which for decades put the red in every colour television.

희토류 원소Eu

Feldspar & Nepheline Syenite

The most abundant mineral group in the crust, used as the flux that lets glass and ceramic melt at a workable…

산업용 광물

Fluorspar

Calcium fluoride, the mineral that every fluorine atom in industry ultimately comes from — including the fluorine in…

산업용 광물

Gadolinium

A rare earth that absorbs neutrons better than almost anything, and that makes MRI scans easier to read.

희토류 원소Gd

Gallium

A silvery metal that melts in your hand, and the basis of the compound semiconductors in fast chargers, radar and LEDs.

반도체 소재Ga

Garnet (Industrial)

A hard, sharp-edged mineral more familiar as a gemstone, used industrially as the grit in waterjet cutting and…

산업용 광물

Gemstones

Minerals people want because of how they look — hardness, clarity and colour, priced on rarity rather than on tonnage.

귀금속

Germanium

The element the very first transistors were made from, now used mainly for infrared lenses and fibre-optic glass.

반도체 소재Ge

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Alumina

Aluminium

Antimony

Argon

Arsenic

Asbestos

Barite

Bauxite

Beryllium

Bismuth

Boron

Bromine

Cadmium

Caesium

Cement

Cerium

Chromium

Clays

Cobalt

Construction Sand & Gravel

Copper

Crude Oil

Crushed Stone

Diamond (Industrial)

Diatomite

Dimension Stone

Dysprosium

Erbium

Europium

Feldspar & Nepheline Syenite

Fluorspar

Gadolinium

Gallium

Garnet (Industrial)

Gemstones

Germanium

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지하

경제

학습

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