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Mexico mined 3% (USGS) of the world's copper in 2025 (estimated) and refined 1.7% (USGS).

3%

of the world's copper mining in 2025 (estimated), according to USGS

#11 in copper miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    3

    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

    $4.3bn

    2024; most of it copper; 33 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%.

  • Copper· Mine

    • 3%#11 in copper miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 690 kt

      Rank 11 of the 14 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Copper· Refine

    • 1.7%#12 in copper refiningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 480 kt

      Rank 12 of the 17 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Antimony· Mine

    • 0.5%#10 in antimony miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 600 t

      Rank 10 of the 15 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Graphite· Mine

    • 0%#14 in graphite miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 740 t

      Rank 14 of the 18 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
MEX
GDP
$1.83tn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
1.4% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
2.4% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
932 km² (2019; rank 19 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Mexico
  • 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

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

Country in context: Copper, Mine production, 2025
Countrythousand metric tonsShare of worldSource
MexicoThis country6903.0 %
ChileLargest producer in the table5 30023.0 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it23 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: Mexico
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Copper: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 11 of 14690 kt3.0 %
Copper: Refinery production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 12 of 17480 kt1.7 %
Copper: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 6 of 1453 000 kt5.4 %
Graphite: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 14 of 18740 t0.0 %
Graphite: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 11 of 153 100 000 t1.0 %
Antimony: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 10 of 15600 t0.5 %
Antimony: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 13 of 1318 000 t0.8 %

Trade partners

3 recorded flows, 2024

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

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

Recorded trade flows of Mexico: Copper
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Export toChinaCopperMine2024$3.3bn
Import fromUSACopperMine2024$1.5bn
Import fromUSACopperRefine2024$1.3bn

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

$4.3bnin 2024, with 33 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$3.2bnin 2024, with 34 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$)

    $1.83tn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    1.4%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    2.4%

    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.

$25bnlatest reported fiscal year, 2018

Sectors in the report: mining, oil, gas · Period: 2018-01-01 – 2018-12-31

All 3 reported years
Fiscal yearGovernment revenue (US$)Sectors in the reportCountry fileSource
20182018-01-01 – 2018-12-3124 988 684 375mining, oil, gassummary file
20172017-01-01 – 2017-12-3119 865 361 604mining, oil, gas—
20162016-01-01 – 2016-12-3119 688 574 513mining, 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 Mexico 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 Mexico. 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 Mexico'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 Mexico's government. The list is short and hand-read.

Mining companies headquartered here · 4

Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Mexico, 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
Grupo Méxiconamed at 5 sites or listed plants, itself or through a subsidiaryMexico CityOTC Markets Group: GMBXF—
PeñolesMexico CityOTC Markets Group: IPOAF—
Minera AutlanSan Pedro Garza García——
Minera San XavierCerro de San Pedro Municipality——

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 53% 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.

    67%of mine sites on record

    2023Estimated

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

    • 14 of 21 sites with a class (21 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.

    932km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 87% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 19 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 Mexico

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. 6 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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Type the name of a material, a country, a site or a company.