Global critical mineral mine production volume 2022, by leading owner country

Published by Statista Research Department, Mar 20, 2024
A total of nearly 508 million metric tons of critical minerals were produced in overseas mines that had corporate owners based in Canada as of 2022. This made Canada the world's leading headquarters country for critical mineral producing mines that were operating overseas at that time. Chile, on the other hand, had the largest critical mineral production from domestically-owned mines at that time, producing 330.46 million tons of critical minerals that year.

Critical minerals are mineral resources that are essential for the economy and technology worldwide and include copper, cobalt, nickel, lithium, and manganese.

Critical mineral mine production volume worldwide in 2022, by leading corporate owner country (in million metric tons)

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Release date

October 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022

Special properties

domicile country of primary-equity owners of operational mines that incude copper, cobalt, lithium, manganese, and/or nickel as a primary commodity

Supplementary notes

*Data for domestic mines in China was not available, so China is not ranked as highly on the list as it likely should be.

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