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Bolivia mined 4.5% (USGS) of the world's antimony in 2025 (estimated).

4.5%

of the world's antimony mining in 2025 (estimated), according to USGS · about 1 in 20

#4 in antimony miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    2

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    30

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

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $197M

    2024; most of it antimony; 26 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    481gCO2e/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%.

  • Antimony· Mine

    • 4.5%about 1 in 20#4 in antimony miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 5 000 t

      Rank 4 of the 15 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Tungsten· Mine

    • 2%#6 in tungsten miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 1 700 t

      Rank 6 of the 11 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
BOL
GDP
$65bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
5.9% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
47% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
287 km² (2019; rank 36 of 144)
Named in the sources as
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Bolivia
  • 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 · 30

30 of 30 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

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

Country in context: Antimony, Mine production, 2025
Countrymetric tonsShare of worldSource
BoliviaThis country5 0004.5 %
ChinaLargest producer in the table40 00036.1 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it110 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: Bolivia
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Tungsten: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 6 of 111 700 t2.0 %
Tungsten: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026Not available–
Antimony: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 4 of 155 000 t4.5 %
Antimony: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 3 of 13310 000 t12.9 %

Mines and plants listed without coordinates · 12

The USGS Minerals Yearbook names these operations in Bolivia with company, place and annual capacity, but gives no coordinates, so they are not on the map. Capacity is not production. Each row is from the chapter year shown.

Material and productKindCompany, as listedPlace, as listedAnnual capacityYearSource
AntimonyAntimony, metal (regulus)PlantEmpresa Metalúrgica Vinto S.A. (Government, 100%)Vinto antimony plant, Carretera Vinto, Oruro Department6,000 (as printed)2019
AntimonyAntimony, metalPlantFundestaño de Oruro S.A. (Empresa Minera Unificada S.A., 100%)Smelter, City of Oruro, Oruro Department1,100 (as printed)2019
AntimonyAntimony, metalPlantOperaciones Metalúrgicas S.A. (private, 100%)Huajara Industrial Park, east Oruro, Oruro Department3,000 (as printed)2019
AntimonyAntimonyNot specifiedAmalgamated Gold and Silver Inc., 70%, and Raptor Ventures LLC (Planet Resource Recovery Inc., 100%), 30%San Antonio de Turiri Mine, Potosi Department30 000 metric tons per year2019
AntimonyAntimonyNot specifiedEmpresa Minera Unificada S.A. (EMUSA) (private, 100%)Caracota, Chilcobija, and Espiritu Santo Mines, Potosi Department1,100 (as printed)2019
AntimonyAntimonyNot specifiedSmall-scale mining operations and cooperatives (private, 100%)San Jose Mine, Oruro Department; mines in Caracota District, Nor Chichas, Quijarro, and Sud Chichas Provinces, Potosi Department4,500 (as printed)2019
CopperCopperNot specifiedCompañía Minera PAS (Bolivia) S.A. [Pan American Silver Corp., 95%, and Corporación Minera de Bolivia (COMIBOL) (Government, 100%), 5%]San Vicente Mine, Potosi Department1 300 metric tons per year2019
CopperCopperNot specifiedEmpresa Minera Paititi S.A. {Orvana Minerals Corp. [Fabulosa Mines Ltd. (Minera S.A., 100%), 52.5%, and other private, 47.5%], 100%}Don Mario Mine, Chiquitos Province, Santa Cruz Department7 000 metric tons per year2019
CopperCopperNot specifiedMinera Corocobre S.A. [Korea Resources Corp. 53%, and Corporación Minera de Bolivia (COMIBOL) (Government, 100%), through Empresa Minera Corocoro, 47%]Coro Coro Mine, La Paz Department3 600 metric tons per year2019
CopperCopperNot specifiedSmall-scale mining operations and cooperatives (private, 100%)Mining operations in Chuquisaca, La Paz, Oruro, and Potosi Departments650 metric tons per year2019
TungstenTungsten, W contentNot specifiedEmpresa Minera Himalaya [Corporación Minera de Bolivia (COMIBOL) (Government, 100%), 100%]Himalaya Mine, Murillo Province, La Paz Departmentnot given2019
TungstenTungsten, W contentNot specifiedSmall-scale mining operations and cooperatives (private, 100%)Bolsa Negra, Enramada, Reconquistada Mines, near the former International Mining Co.'s Chojilla Mine, Sud Yungas Province; Chambilaya and Chicote Grande Mines, Inquisivi Province; Mercedes, San Antonio, Ucumarini Mines, Larecaja Province, La Paz Department1,200 (as printed)2019

Trade partners

2 recorded flows, 2024

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

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

Recorded trade flows of Bolivia: Antimony
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Export toChinaAntimonyMine2024$33M
Export toUSAAntimonyRefine2024$27M

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.

30 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

$197Min 2024, with 26 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$878,801in 2024, with 17 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$)

    $65bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    5.9%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    47%

    Year 2025

Government revenue from extractives

No data yet. Bolivia has no EITI summary record with a government total. Countries report only if they implement the EITI Standard; a missing record does not mean there is no such revenue.

EITI open data

Investment pipeline

announced figures

Planned and under-construction projects in Bolivia 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 Bolivia. 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 Bolivia'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 Bolivia'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 Bolivia, 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
Corporación Minera de Bolivianamed at 6 sites or listed plants, itself or through a subsidiary———
San Cristóbal mineNor Lípez Province——

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.

    481gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 52% 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.

    0%of mine sites on record

    2023Estimated

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

    • 0 of 26 sites with a class (26 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.

    287km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 76% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 36 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 Bolivia

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

None of the checks finds a missing record. That does not mean the record is complete.

  • Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows. 5 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

Revision history and discussion are coming soon.

Every change to a figure will be listed here with its source, its credit and its review, and each profile will have a place to discuss it. Until then the data changes only when a source is updated, and every figure links to that source.

What can be contributed today

What we don't know yet

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