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Argentina mined 7.9% (USGS) of the world's lithium in 2025 (estimated) and refined 5% (IEA).

7.9%

of the world's lithium mining in 2025 (estimated), according to USGS · about 1 in 10

#5 in lithium miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    1

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    10

    Mines and plants in the open sources. Coverage is partial.

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $727M

    2024; most of it lithium; 30 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    346gCO2e/kWh

    2025

OverviewSupply chainMoneySustainabilityRisks & policySourcesHistory & talk

Overview

What it produces

Share of world output, per material and stage. Each bar is one source's figure; where two sources report the same stage, both are shown and never blended. A full-width bar would be 100%.

  • Lithium· Mine

    • 7.9%about 1 in 10#5 in lithium miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 23 000 t

      Rank 5 of the 9 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

    • 6.3%about 1 in 20#5 in lithium miningIEA, 2025 · 19 kt Li

      Rank 5 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

  • Lithium· Refine

    • 5%about 1 in 20#3 in lithium refiningIEA, 2025 · 16 kt Li

      Rank 3 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

Key facts

Country code
ARG
GDP
$683bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
0.6% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
0.1% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
2 301 km² (2019; rank 12 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Argentina
  • Mine or brine operation
  • Processing site

Sites are those in the open sources. A site missing here is missing from the sources, not from the world.

Sites on record · 10

10 of 10 shown

One entry per site. Where two sources describe the same site, the atlas lists the record of the source it ranks higher.

Country in context

Lithium: Mine production, 2025 (estimated). All rows come from the same table.

Country in context: Lithium, Mine production, 2025
Countrymetric tonsShare of worldSource
ArgentinaThis country23 0007.9 %
AustraliaLargest producer in the table92 00031.7 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it290 000–

Supply chain

Every figure the sources give for this country, its trade partners per material, and where its sites are.

Production, refining and reserves

The latest year of each series. Share is of the series total: the larger of the source world total and the sum of its rows. Rank counts only the countries that have a number in that series.

Production, refining and reserves: Argentina
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Lithium: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 5 of 923 000 t7.9 %
Lithium: Raw materials (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 5 of 619 kt Li6.3 %
Lithium: Chemicals (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 3 of 616 kt Li5.0 %
Lithium: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 4 of 104 400 000 t11.9 %

Trade partners

4 recorded flows, 2024

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
  • Argentina

Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.

Recorded trade flows of Argentina: Lithium
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Export toChinaLithiumRefine2024$464M
Export toRep. of KoreaLithiumRefine2024$96M
Export toUSALithiumRefine2024$79M
Export toJapanLithiumRefine2024$66M

Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.

10 sites, deposits and projects on record are listed with the map in the Overview →

Money

What the trade data and the World Bank record in money terms. Every value is a reported figure with its own year.

All recorded trade flows of 2024 under the customs codes that isolate one of the ten materials, by value (CEPII BACI, reconciled estimates, current US dollars). Codes that mix several materials are left out, so trade in those materials is understated; gallium and germanium have no usable code at all. Each material lists its five largest partners. Why trade data blurs some materials

Exports of the ten materials

$727Min 2024, with 30 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$27Min 2024, with 40 partner countries

The economy around mining

World Bank indicators. Each has its own latest year, shown next to the value; mineral rents are often several years old.

  • GDP (current US$)

    $683bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    0.6%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    0.1%

    Year 2025

Government revenue from extractives

EITI, reported

What government agencies reported receiving from extractive companies, per fiscal year, as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) publishes it in US dollars. A total covers every sector the country's report covers and is not split by mineral.

$3.6bnlatest reported fiscal year, 2021

Sectors in the report: mining, oil, gas · Period: 2021-01-01 – 2021-12-31

All 3 reported years
Fiscal yearGovernment revenue (US$)Sectors in the reportCountry fileSource
20212021-01-01 – 2021-12-313 608 232 804mining, oil, gassummary file
20202020-01-01 – 2020-12-312 248 655 659mining, oil, gassummary file
20182018-01-01 – 2018-12-313 246 757 678mining, oil, gassummary file

EITI reports lag by two to four years. The figure is the report's own total and is not adjusted for inflation. Republished under EITI's Content Use Policy with credit to the EITI International Secretariat, eiti.org. These figures are kept in a file of their own and are not part of the atlas's ODbL data. EITI open data

Investment pipeline

announced figures

Planned and under-construction projects in Argentina with a publicly announced capital cost, public financial backing, or both. Each line is one statement by the named publisher on the given date; the atlas adds nothing to it.

No data yet. The atlas has read no announcement of this kind for a project in Argentina. The list is short and hand-read; a missing project is missing from the list, not from the world.

A short, hand-read list, not a census: 19 projects in all. Announced amounts are not spending, a letter of interest or a conditional commitment is not a loan, and amounts stay in the currency of the announcement.

Public support instruments

Stockpiles, price floors, offtake and purchasing programmes and public funds of Argentina's government, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.

No data yet. The atlas has read no public support instrument of Argentina's government. The list is short and hand-read.

Mining companies headquartered here · 2

Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Argentina, for every commodity, not only the ten materials. Wikidata is edited by volunteers: entries may be missing or out of date, and each name links to its item. A listing names an exchange and a ticker; it is not a price.

CompanyHeadquartersStock listingLEISource
Livent CorporationCatamarca ProvinceNew York Stock Exchange: LTHM—
Grupo IndaloBuenos Aires——

These figures are informational, not financial advice.

Sustainability

Four indicators, the same on every profile. Each is a figure with its unit, year and source, or a plain statement that there is none.

  • Carbon

    Emissions intensity of the country's electricity grid.

    346gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 39% of the other 208 countries with a grid figure.

    • It describes the national grid, not mining or refining. Sites may run on their own power.

  • Water

    Share of the country's mine sites on record that lie in high or extremely high baseline water stress.

    10%of mine sites on record

    2023Estimated

    No world percentile: the number of sites on record differs too much between countries to compare them.

    • 1 of 10 sites with a class (10 mine and brine sites on record).
    • Counted by site, not by tonnage: it is not a share of production.
    • "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.

  • Land

    Land visibly used by mining in the country, every commodity together.

    2 301km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 92% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 12 of 144 countries by area.
    • Mapped from satellite images for all mining in a country. It cannot be attributed to one material or one site.

  • Circularity

    Recycling's share of demand.

    Not available per country: recycling rates in the atlas are published per material, for the EU as a whole.

There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures

Risks & policy

Export controls in force

Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.

USGS Table 4 lists no export control by this country for the materials in the atlas.

Chokepoints at sea

The atlas has no record of which minerals pass through which sea passage, so no chokepoint figure is attached to this profile. Current ship counts for the main passages are on the Live page. Open the Live page

Gaps

What the atlas is missing for Argentina

Computed from the data. Each line names a record that exists and one that does not. It marks missing data, not missing industry.

  • Listed as a lithium refiner (5% of world output; Chemicals (IEA), 2025), but no processing plant is on record.
  • Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows. 4 of them name this country.

Add dataAll gaps, across materials

Sources

Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.

The mining-area figure comes from a share-alike source (CC-BY-SA-4.0). It is kept in its own file under that licence, apart from the rest of the atlas's data.

History & talk

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What we don't know yet

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