Is there a possibility these resources will be depleted/exhausted in the near future? This does look like a serious spike…
Pure_Growth4528 on
Lithium could be interesting
Spice_and_Fox on
This should be per 1 billion global world population, shouldn’t it? Silver per 1 billion global population would only be slightly increased. 1960s had 3 billion people compared to our 8.3 billion iirc
woody_woodworker on
Just to clarify this is tonnes of mined metal/commodity, not bulk ore tonnes mined.
Theporo2 on
Kilotonne is abbreviated ‘kt’ not ‘Kt’.
GingerFun011 on
Fun how our resources grow exponentially but those in control prevent anyone but themselves from bennefitting, hmm
AlertGuest5105 on
Lithium really just went vertical.
Areat on
Copper will likely shot up when the Bougainville mine reopen.
It’s the world biggest copper mine, but it’s closed since the independence war of Bougainville within Papua. They voted in a referendum for independence, scheduled next year. It’s a certain they will reopen it to boost their fragile new economy.
![[OC] Global Mine Production, 1960 to 2024](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/g2dfuga6w5sg1-1237x1536.jpeg "[OC] Global Mine Production, 1960 to 2024")
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Data source: [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-mine-production-minerals](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-mine-production-minerals)
Tools used: Matplotlib
Is there a possibility these resources will be depleted/exhausted in the near future? This does look like a serious spike…
Lithium could be interesting
This should be per 1 billion global world population, shouldn’t it? Silver per 1 billion global population would only be slightly increased. 1960s had 3 billion people compared to our 8.3 billion iirc
Just to clarify this is tonnes of mined metal/commodity, not bulk ore tonnes mined.
Kilotonne is abbreviated ‘kt’ not ‘Kt’.
Fun how our resources grow exponentially but those in control prevent anyone but themselves from bennefitting, hmm
Lithium really just went vertical.
Copper will likely shot up when the Bougainville mine reopen.
It’s the world biggest copper mine, but it’s closed since the independence war of Bougainville within Papua. They voted in a referendum for independence, scheduled next year. It’s a certain they will reopen it to boost their fragile new economy.
silver is seeing the major pull back