mineral.watch cross-references verified open data and business intelligence on the minerals powering batteries, magnets, chips and defence — who mines them, who refines them, and who depends on whom.
Interactive world map of mines, anode plants and trade flows, production and reserves charts, price trends and the China chokepoint — built on USGS, BGS, UN Comtrade and IEA data.
Open the Graphite dashboard →Each mineral gets its own data dashboard: production, reserves, trade flows, prices and supply-chain concentration. Graphite is live; the rest are in the pipeline.
The single largest material in a lithium-ion battery. Mining, spherical processing and anode production, mapped and charted.
The core of the battery economy: brine and hard-rock supply, conversion capacity and price cycles.
Concentrated mining in the DRC, refining in China, and the shift to lower-cobalt chemistries.
Indonesia's rise, class-1 vs class-2 supply, and the battery-grade squeeze.
Seventeen elements, one dominant refiner. Magnets, export controls and the race to diversify.
The metal of electrification: grids, EVs and a looming supply gap.
From steel staple to battery cathode ingredient: high-purity supply under scrutiny.
Strategic minerals are tiny markets compared with oil or iron ore, but everything downstream depends on them. Concentration in mining and, above all, refining makes them a lever of industrial and geopolitical power.
The IEA projects demand for key battery minerals to roughly double or more by 2040 in its base scenarios, driven by EVs, storage and grids.
For several critical minerals, a single country refines the large majority of world supply — a tighter chokepoint than mining itself.
The US, EU, Japan and others each maintain official critical-mineral lists; export controls and tariffs increasingly follow them.
Every dashboard cross-references primary open datasets. Figures are cited to their source and dated; estimates are flagged as such.
We produce bespoke, source-cited research on strategic minerals — supply-chain mapping, trade-flow analysis, country and commodity deep-dives — built on the same open, verifiable data behind this site.
Reach out at hello@mineral.watchmineral.watch is an independent, open-data knowledge hub on strategic minerals and rare earths. It cross-references verified data from USGS, BGS, UN Comtrade and the IEA to show who mines, refines and trades the materials behind batteries, magnets, chips and defence systems.
Graphite is live today, with dedicated dashboards for lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earths, copper and manganese in development.
Figures are cross-referenced from the USGS National Minerals Information Center, British Geological Survey World Mineral Statistics, UN Comtrade and IEA Critical Minerals data, cited and dated on each page.
No. mineral.watch is an independent project and holds no commercial position in the minerals it covers.
Email hello@mineral.watch for bespoke, source-cited research on supply-chain mapping, trade-flow analysis and commodity deep-dives.
mineral.watch is an independent open-data project. It exists because reliable information on strategic minerals is scattered across agency reports, customs databases and paywalled market research — and because decisions about supply chains, industrial policy and investment deserve a shared, verifiable evidence base.
Corrections, data tips and collaboration ideas are welcome: hello@mineral.watch