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Portugal mined 0.8% (USGS) of the world's tungsten in 2025 (estimated).

0.8%

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

#11 in tungsten miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    2

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    1

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

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $404M

    2024; most of it copper; 38 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    128gCO2e/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%.

  • Tungsten· Mine

    • 0.8%#11 in tungsten miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 700 t

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

  • Lithium· Mine

    • 0.1%#9 in lithium miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 380 t

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

Key facts

Country code
PRT
GDP
$347bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
0.1% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
2.7% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
40 km² (2019; rank 81 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Portugal
  • 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 · 1

1 of 1 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

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

Country in context: Tungsten, Mine production, 2025
Countrymetric tonsShare of worldSource
PortugalThis country7000.8 %
ChinaLargest producer in the table67 00078.7 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it85 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: Portugal
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Lithium: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 9 of 9380 t0.1 %
Lithium: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 10 of 1060 000 t0.2 %
Tungsten: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 11 of 11700 t0.8 %
Tungsten: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 8 of 83 400 t0.1 %

Trade partners

No data yet. None of the largest trade flows the atlas holds names Portugal.

1 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

$404Min 2024, with 38 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$44Min 2024, with 35 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$)

    $347bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    0.1%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    2.7%

    Year 2025

Government revenue from extractives

No data yet. Portugal 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 Portugal 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.

  • Barroso Lithium ProjectPlannedMine

    Savannah Lithium, Unipessoal, Lda. · Lithium

    “Production targeted for end 2028” · status as printed on 2026-10-01

    Announced capital cost

    USD 418 M2026-10-01

    Capex total including pre-strip & contingency (Phase 1 DFS, July 2026); US$323m net of the State Grant · Savannah Resources Plc

    The publisher's words: “Capex: Total of US$418m including pre-strip & contingency US$323m required net of US$95m contribution from State Grant”
    Public backing

    • no amount statedStrategic project status · “recognised as Strategic Project (Commission Decision C(2025) 1904, annex item 5)” · 2025-03-25

      European Commission

      The publisher's words: “Barroso Lithium Project is an ongoing extraction project in Portugal. The project promoted by Savannah Lithium, Unipessoal, Lda.”

    • EUR 110 MGrant · “Awarded a non-reimbursable grant of up to” · 2026-04-15

      Portuguese State

      The publisher's words: “Awarded a non-reimbursable grant of up to EUR110m by the Portuguese State”

    • USD 270 MLoan guarantee · “eligible for a loan guarantee” · 2026-04-15

      German Government

      The publisher's words: “eligible for a loan guarantee from the German Government for up to USD270m”

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 Portugal's government and of the European Union, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.

  • 2025-12-03announced · European UnionFundannounced

    The Commission adopted the RESourceEU Action Plan: project financing, a European Critical Raw Materials Centre, joint purchasing through the Raw Materials Platform and a stockpiling pilot.

    EUR 3 bn · “up to €3 billion over the next 12 months”

    Covers: “critical raw materials, such as rare earth elements, cobalt or lithium” · Materials: Rare earths, Cobalt, Lithium

    European Union instrument; applies through membership

    The publisher's words: “The EU will mobilise up to €3 billion over the next 12 months to support concrete projects”
    5 further statements from the source

    adoption

    The publisher's words: “The European Commission has adopted today the RESourceEU Action Plan”

    European Critical Raw Materials Centre planned

    The publisher's words: “In early 2026, the Commission will set up a European Critical Raw Materials Centre”

    joint purchasing and offtake via the Raw Materials Platform

    The publisher's words: “the Raw Materials Platform will facilitate the efforts of the companies to aggregate demand, jointly purchase strategic raw materials and secure offtake agreements”

    stockpiling pilot

    The publisher's words: “with a pilot scheme set to become operational in early 2026”

    materials named

    The publisher's words: “secure the EU's supply of critical raw materials, such as rare earth elements, cobalt or lithium”

  • 2024-05-23in force from · European UnionJoint purchasingin force

    The Critical Raw Materials Act obliges the Commission to run a demand-aggregation and joint-purchasing system for strategic raw materials and to set a benchmark for strategic stocks.

    Covers: “strategic raw materials” · Materials: Cobalt, Copper, Gallium, Germanium, Lithium, Graphite, Nickel, Rare earths, Tungsten

    European Union instrument; applies through membership

    The publisher's words: “The Commission shall set up and operate a system to aggregate the demand of interested undertakings consuming strategic raw materials established in the Union”
    2 further statements from the source

    joint negotiation of purchases allowed (Article 25(5))

    The publisher's words: “may, on a transparent basis, jointly negotiate the purchase, including the prices or other terms and conditions of the purchasing agreement”

    coordination of strategic stocks (Article 23)

    The publisher's words: “shall adopt a benchmark indicating a safe level of Union strategic stocks of strategic raw materials”

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.

    128gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 16% 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 1 sites with a class (1 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.

    40km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 44% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 81 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 Portugal

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 (0.1% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A lithium producer (0.1% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no site record names an owner or operator.
  • Listed as a tungsten producer (0.8% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A tungsten producer (0.8% 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, and none names 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.

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What we don't know yet

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