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Brazil mined 4.1% (USGS) of the world's lithium in 2025 (estimated).

4.1%

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

#6 in lithium miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    4

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    24

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

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $4.5bn

    2024; most of it copper; 68 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    109gCO2e/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

    • 4.1%about 1 in 20#6 in lithium miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 12 000 t

      Rank 6 of the 9 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Graphite· Mine

    • 3.6%about 1 in 20#4 in graphite miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 65 000 t

      Rank 4 of the 18 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

    • 3.6%about 1 in 20#4 in graphite miningIEA, 2025 · 64 kt

      Rank 4 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

  • Nickel· Mine

    • 2%#7 in nickel miningIEA, 2025 · 85 kt Ni

      Rank 7 of the 7 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

    • 1.8%#7 in nickel miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 70 000 t

      Rank 7 of the 9 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Nickel· Refine

    • 1.7%#7 in nickel refiningIEA, 2025 · 64 kt Ni

      Rank 7 of the 7 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

  • Rare earths· Mine

    • 0.5%#9 in rare earths miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 2 000 t

      Rank 9 of the 12 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
BRA
GDP
$2.28tn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
4.5% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
12% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
5 916 km² (2019; rank 6 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Brazil
  • 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 · 24

24 of 24 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
BrazilThis country12 0004.1 %
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: Brazil
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Lithium: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 6 of 912 000 t4.1 %
Lithium: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 7 of 10540 000 t1.5 %
Nickel: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 7 of 970 000 t1.8 %
Nickel: Mining (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 7 of 785 kt Ni2.0 %
Nickel: Refining (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 7 of 764 kt Ni1.7 %
Nickel: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 3 of 916 000 000 t12.3 %
Graphite: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 4 of 1865 000 t3.6 %
Graphite: Mining (natural graphite) (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 4 of 664 kt3.6 %
Graphite: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 2 of 1574 000 000 t23.9 %
Rare earths: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 9 of 122 000 t0.5 %
Rare earths: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 2 of 1121 000 000 t24.6 %

Trade partners

1 recorded flow, 2024

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

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

Recorded trade flows of Brazil: Copper
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Import fromChileCopperRefine2024$2.1bn

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.

24 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

$4.5bnin 2024, with 68 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$2.8bnin 2024, with 48 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$)

    $2.28tn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    4.5%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    12%

    Year 2025

Government revenue from extractives

No data yet. Brazil 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 Brazil 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 Brazil. 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 Brazil'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 Brazil's government. The list is short and hand-read.

Mining companies headquartered here · 9

Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Brazil, 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
BradesparSão PauloSão Paulo Stock Exchange: BRAP3São Paulo Stock Exchange: BRAP49598001UD1DHEH3PZ471
MMX MineraçãoRio de JaneiroSão Paulo Stock Exchange: MMXM3—
ParanapanemaSanto AndréSão Paulo Stock Exchange: PMAM3549300HJ236VGDN8U912
ValeRio de JaneiroMadrid Stock Exchange: XVALONew York Stock Exchange: VALESão Paulo Stock Exchange: VALE3969500FCQ8OA16R17V29
BAMINSalvador——
CaemiNova Lima——
EBX GroupFlamengo District——
Ferrous ResourcesBelo Horizonte——
SamarcoBelo Horizonte—529900U8HKV15GJC4O60

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.

    109gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 13% 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 16 sites with a class (16 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.

    5 916km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 97% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 6 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 Brazil

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 producer (4.1% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A lithium producer (4.1% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no site record names an owner or operator.
  • Listed as a rare earths producer (0.5% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A rare earths producer (0.5% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no site record names an owner or operator.
  • Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows. 2 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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