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New Caledonia mined 3.6% (USGS) of the world's nickel in 2025 (estimated).

3.6%

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

#4 in nickel miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    1

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    3

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

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $629M

    2024; most of it nickel; 7 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    564gCO2e/kWh

    2024

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%.

  • Nickel· Mine

    • 3.6%about 1 in 20#4 in nickel miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 140 000 t

      Rank 4 of the 9 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

    • 3.3%about 1 in 20#5 in nickel miningIEA, 2025 · 138 kt Ni

      Rank 5 of the 7 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

Key facts

Country code
NCL
GDP
$8.5bn (2024)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
17% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
38% (2015)
Mining area, all commodities
252 km² (2019; rank 39 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • New Caledonia
  • 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 · 3

3 of 3 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

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

Country in context: Nickel, Mine production, 2025
Countrymetric tonsShare of worldSource
New CaledoniaThis country140 0003.6 %
IndonesiaLargest producer in the table2 600 00066.7 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it3 900 000–

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: New Caledonia
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Nickel: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 4 of 9140 000 t3.6 %
Nickel: Mining (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 5 of 7138 kt Ni3.3 %
Nickel: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 5 of 97 100 000 t5.5 %

Trade partners

2 recorded flows, 2024

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

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

Recorded trade flows of New Caledonia: Nickel
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Export toChinaNickelProcess2024$267M
Export toRep. of KoreaNickelMine2024$209M

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.

3 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

$629Min 2024, with 7 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$5,377in 2024, with 3 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$)

    $8.5bn

    Year 2024

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    17%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    38%

    Year 2015

Government revenue from extractives

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

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.

    564gCO2e/kWh

    2024Reported

    Higher than 68% 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 3 sites with a class (3 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.

    252km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 73% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 39 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 New Caledonia

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. 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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