United Kingdom
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United Kingdom has no mining or refining share on record for the ten materials. In 2024 it imported $868M and exported $730M of them, by value (CEPII BACI).
$868M
imports of the ten materials in 2024, by value; most of it nickel
ANNUAL 2024
Exports of the ten materials
$730M
2024; most of it nickel; 100 partner countries
Grid emissions intensity
218gCO2e/kWh
2025
Imports of the ten materials
$868M
2024; most of it nickel; 65 partner countries
Mining companies headquartered here
190
tagged in Wikidata, all commodities; coverage is uneven
Overview
Trade partners
1 recorded flow, 2024
- Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
- United Kingdom
Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.
| Partner | Material | Year | Value, US$ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Import fromIndonesia | NickelProcess | 2024 | $351M |
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.
Key facts
- Country code
- GBR
- GDP
- $4tn (2025)
- Mineral rents, share of GDP
- 0% (2021)
- Ores and metals, share of goods exports
- 5.7% (2025)
- Mining area, all commodities
- 169 km² (2019; rank 49 of 144)
Map
- United Kingdom
Sites are those in the open sources. A site missing here is missing from the sources, not from the world.
Supply chain
Every figure the sources give for this country, its trade partners per material, and where its sites are.
Production, refining and reserves
No data yet. No production, refining or reserves figure names this country.
Trade partners
1 recorded flow, 2024
- Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
- United Kingdom
Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.
| Partner | Material | Year | Value, US$ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Import fromIndonesia | NickelProcess | 2024 | $351M |
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.
0 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
$730Min 2024, with 100 partner countries
Nickel$520M
Belgium $112M · China $83M · Sweden $59M · Netherlands $57M · Japan $42M · 49 more
Cobalt$90M
United States $29M · Netherlands $13M · Germany $12M · France $12M · Japan $5.7M · 55 more
Tungsten$41M
Germany $13M · India $7.4M · Kenya $5.3M · Australia $3.9M · France $2M · 49 more
Lithium$30M
China $14M · Netherlands $3.6M · Germany $2.9M · United Arab Emirates $1.4M · United States $1.2M · 61 more
Graphite$18M
China $2.6M · Turkey $1.5M · Poland $1.5M · United States $1.5M · Germany $1.5M · 66 more
Copper$14M
China $5M · Malaysia $4.3M · Germany $1.2M · Peru $953,098 · Saudi Arabia $466,581 · 65 more
Rare earths$9.7M
North Macedonia $5.9M · United States $725,578 · Germany $584,791 · Spain $496,368 · China $435,966 · 53 more
Antimony$8M
United States $6.5M · Brazil $259,184 · Canada $229,205 · Belgium $144,740 · Germany $137,101 · 22 more
Imports of the ten materials
$868Min 2024, with 65 partner countries
Nickel$521M
Indonesia $357M · Norway $48M · Japan $46M · Canada $22M · Finland $17M · 29 more
Cobalt$110M
China $24M · Turkey $13M · Canada $11M · United States $9.7M · Japan $9.6M · 30 more
Copper$100M
Belgium $93M · Brazil $3.1M · South Africa $1.1M · Germany $499,037 · France $298,589 · 33 more
Lithium$50M
Chile $34M · Netherlands $5.2M · United States $3.1M · China $1.9M · Argentina $1.9M · 12 more
Tungsten$36M
China $10M · Austria $7.3M · Germany $7M · United States $2.7M · Bolivia $2M · 28 more
Graphite$24M
China $5M · United States $4.6M · Germany $2.2M · Japan $1.9M · France $1.4M · 36 more
Antimony$18M
France $9.7M · Belgium $3.6M · China $1.2M · India $710,801 · United States $673,621 · 13 more
Rare earths$9.3M
China $3.5M · Italy $1.8M · United States $910,432 · Thailand $747,962 · Austria $683,105 · 24 more
The economy around mining
World Bank indicators. Each has its own latest year, shown next to the value; mineral rents are often several years old.
GDP (current US$)
$4tn
Year 2025
Mineral rents (% of GDP)
0%
Year 2021
Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)
5.7%
Year 2025
Government revenue from extractives
EITI, reportedWhat 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.
$9.5bnlatest reported fiscal year, 2023
Sectors in the report: mining, oil, gas · Period: 2023-01-01 – 2023-12-31
All 10 reported years
| Fiscal year | Government revenue (US$) | Sectors in the report | Country file | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20232023-01-01 – 2023-12-31 | 9 504 596 801 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20222022-01-01 – 2022-12-31 | 8 473 599 782 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20212021-01-01 – 2021-12-31 | 1 380 327 317 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20202020-01-01 – 2020-12-31 | 341 558 044 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20192019-01-01 – 2019-12-31 | 1 931 963 184 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20182018-01-01 – 2018-12-31 | 1 669 848 373 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20172017-01-01 – 2017-12-31 | 1 287 223 778 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20162016-01-01 – 2016-12-31 | -530 790 959far from this country's other years; shown as the source gives it | mining, oil, gas | — | |
| 20152015-01-01 – 2015-12-31 | 1 359 668 558 | mining, oil, gas | summary file | |
| 20142014-01-01 – 2014-12-31 | 5 030 707far from this country's other years; shown as the source gives it | mining, oil, gas | summary file |
A marked year is far from the country's other years (rule: A year is marked when the country has at least 3 other years with a positive total and the year's total is zero or negative, more than 20 times the median of those other years, or less than one 20th of it. A marked value is shown exactly as EITI's API gives it; it may be in another unit, or it may be right (the United Kingdom's negative 2016 total is repayments exceeding receipts).). The atlas does not correct it; check the country's own report.
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 figuresPlanned and under-construction projects in United Kingdom 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.
Tungsten West (Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine)Under constructionMine
Tungsten West PLC · Devon · Tungsten
“Construction is underway” · status as printed on 2026-11-13
- Announced capital cost
No announced capital cost was read.
- Public backing
no amount statedStrategic project status · “recognised as Strategic Project in a third country (Commission Decision C(2025) 3491, annex item 12)” · 2025-06-04
European Commission
The publisher's words: “Tungsten West is an ongoing extraction project in the United Kingdom. The project promoted by Tungsten West PLC”
GBP 36 MEquity · “has announced an investment” · 2026-08-25
National Wealth Fund (United Kingdom)
The publisher's words: “The financing consists of a £36 million equity investment alongside up to £35 million of lending”
GBP 35 MLoan · “has announced an investment (up to £35 million of lending)” · 2026-08-25
National Wealth Fund (United Kingdom)
The publisher's words: “The financing consists of a £36 million equity investment alongside up to £35 million of lending”
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 United Kingdom's government, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.
2025-11-22published · United KingdomFundannounced
The UK critical minerals strategy Vision 2035 announces public funding for critical mineral projects and says stockpiling through procurement will be considered for the defence sector.
GBP 50 M · “up to £50 million”
Covers: “critical mineral projects in the UK”
The publisher's words: “funding of up to £50 million will be made available by DBT to support critical mineral projects”
2 further statements from the source
stockpiling under consideration
The publisher's words: “Measures could include stockpiling, including through procurement mechanisms”
later programme page (published 22 June 2026): grant share
The publisher's words: “with £45 million of this available as grant funding”
Mining companies headquartered here · 190
Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in United Kingdom, 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.
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.
218gCO2e/kWh
Higher than 25% 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.
No mine or brine site with a water-stress class is on record in this country.
- 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.
169km²
Higher than 66% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.
- Rank 49 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 United Kingdom
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.
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.
- CEPII BACI 202601 ↗7 records used
- Licence
- Etalab Open Licence 2.0
- As of
- 2024
- Confidence
- Estimated
- World Bank WDI ↗3 records used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2021–2025
- Confidence
- Reported
- Ember Yearly Electricity Data ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2025
- Confidence
- Reported
- Maus et al. 2022 (mining areas v2) ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
- As of
- 2019
- Confidence
- Estimated
- Wikidata ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- As of
- 2026
- Confidence
- Inferred, needs review
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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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 we don't know yet
No open source we may use gives these figures. Nothing is estimated to fill them. If you know a public source, add it.
- Materials with a production share: No production table names this country.Add data: Materials with a production share: No production table names this country.
- Sites on record: No mine or plant on record here.Add data: Sites on record: No mine or plant on record here.
- Import dependence: no open per-country series is loaded yet.Add data: Import dependence: no open per-country series is loaded yet.
- Recycling rates: Eurostat publishes them for the EU as a whole, not for one country.Add data: Recycling rates: Eurostat publishes them for the EU as a whole, not for one country.