Terms of use
OpenOre is free to use. By using it you accept these terms. They are short on purpose.
What the atlas is
OpenOre gathers public data about raw materials and shows where each figure comes from. It is a reference, built by volunteers from sources that differ in date, method and quality. A missing site or figure means that the sources used do not hold it, not that it does not exist.
Not financial advice
Nothing in the atlas is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing in it is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything. Prices, company listings, scenario tools and every other figure are information only. The scenario tools are arithmetic on one source table and are not forecasts. Decide nothing on the atlas alone; check the original source.
No warranty
The atlas is provided as it is. Figures may be wrong, out of date or incomplete, and live figures may be delayed or missing. To the extent the law allows, the operator is not liable for damage that results from using the atlas or relying on it. Liability for intent and gross negligence is not excluded.
Licences: what you may reuse
- The software is open source under the Apache License 2.0 ↗.
- Data contributed by the community is published under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 ↗: you may use and share it if you credit OpenOre and its contributors and keep derived databases under the same licence.
- Data from each source keeps that source's licence. The atlas does not relicense it. Every figure carries its source, and the list below names the licence and the credit each source asks for. If you reuse a figure, follow the licence of its source.
- Some figures are shown but not offered for reuse. Ship-transit figures from IMF PortWatch are displayed on the Live page under the IMF's terms and are not part of the downloads.
Sources, licences and credits
| Source | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Earth 1:50m Admin 0 Countries (v5.1.2) ↗Natural Earth | Public domain ↗ | Natural Earth |
| Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 Data Release ↗U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center | CC0-1.0 ↗ | U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center |
| Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026 (annex supply tables) ↗International Energy Agency | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | IEA (2026), Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026, IEA, Paris, Licence CC BY 4.0. This is a work derived by OpenOre from IEA material and OpenOre is solely liable and responsible for this derived work. The derived work is not endorsed by the IEA in any manner. |
| Minerals Yearbook, Volume III (area reports), "Structure of the mineral industry" tables, 21 country chapters, 2019 to 2023 ↗U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center | Public domain (U.S. Government work) ↗ | U.S. Geological Survey, Minerals Yearbook, Volume III, country chapter and year as given per row |
| Wikidata (companies in the mining industry, with headquarters, stock listing and LEI) ↗Wikimedia Foundation; edited by Wikidata's volunteers | CC0 1.0 (structured data) ↗ | Wikidata (CC0); each record links to its item |
| GLEIF LEI data (legal entity records and who-owns-whom relationships) ↗Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | CC0 1.0 ↗ | GLEIF (CC0); each record links to its LEI record |
| Australian Mineral and Mining Processing Plants dataset (April 2026) ↗Geoscience Australia | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2026 |
| Principal Mineral Areas, Producing Mines, and Oil and Gas Fields (Map 900A), 75th edition, 2025 ↗Natural Resources Canada | OGL-Canada-2.0 ↗ | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. |
| Australian Operating Mines Map 2025 (data and map service) ↗Geoscience Australia | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2026 |
| Australian Critical Minerals Map 2025, operating mines and deposits (map service) ↗Geoscience Australia | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2026 |
| Critical minerals advanced projects, mines and processing facilities in Canada ↗Natural Resources Canada | OGL-Canada-2.0 ↗ | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. |
| Mineral resources (mineralresurser), open data ↗Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) | CC0-1.0 ↗ | Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) |
| Global-scale mining polygons (Version 2), mining area per country ↗Maus et al. (WU Vienna), via PANGAEA | CC-BY-SA-4.0 ↗ | Maus, V., da Silva, D. M., Gutschlhofer, J., da Rosa, R., Giljum, S., Gass, S. L. B., Luckeneder, S., Lieber, M., McCallum, I. (2022). Global-scale mining polygons (Version 2). PANGAEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942325 |
| World Development Indicators (mineral rents, ores and metals exports, GDP) ↗World Bank | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | World Bank, World Development Indicators |
| EITI summary data (government revenue from the extractive sector, per country and fiscal year) ↗EITI International Secretariat | EITI Content Use Policy (republication with credit; no named open licence) ↗ | EITI International Secretariat, eiti.org (with a direct link to the record) |
| Public announcements of project financing and public support instruments (agency and company press releases, programme pages, official journals) ↗The government body, public bank or company named on each record | No single licence. A fact with a quotation of at most 30 words, the publisher and a link; each record shows its publisher's own reuse statement where one was read ↗ | The publisher named on each record, with a link to the page |
| Aqueduct 4.0 Global Maps Data (baseline water stress) ↗World Resources Institute | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | Kuzma, S., et al. (2023). Aqueduct 4.0. World Resources Institute. CC BY 4.0 |
| Ember Yearly Electricity Data ↗Ember | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | Ember, Yearly Electricity Data |
| Contribution of recycled materials to raw materials demand, end-of-life recycling input rates (cei_srm010) ↗Eurostat | Eurostat reuse policy (reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source) ↗ | Eurostat (cei_srm010) |
| OpenStreetMap, via the Overpass API ↗OpenStreetMap contributors | ODbL-1.0 ↗ | © OpenStreetMap contributors |
| World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), monthly ↗World Bank, Prospects Group | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0 |
| IMF PortWatch (daily chokepoint transits) ↗International Monetary Fund and University of Oxford | IMF Copyright and Usage terms ↗ | International Monetary Fund and University of Oxford |
| USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, real-time GeoJSON feed (magnitude 4.5+, past 7 days) ↗U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain (U.S. Government work) ↗ | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Compilation of Geospatial Data for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Latin America and the Caribbean (Open-File Report 2017-1079) ↗U.S. Geological Survey (Baker, Buteyn, Freeman, Trippi, Trimmer) | Public domain (U.S. Government work) ↗ | Baker, M.S., Buteyn, S.D., Freeman, P.A., Trippi, M.H., Trimmer, L.M. III, 2017, USGS Open-File Report 2017-1079 |
| Open database on global coal and metal mine production (v1.0.3) ↗Jasansky, Lieber, Giljum, Maus (WU Vienna), via Zenodo | CC-BY-4.0 ↗ | Jasansky, S., Lieber, M., Giljum, S., Maus, V. Open database on global coal and metal mine production. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7369478 |
| BACI bilateral trade flows at HS6 (version 202601) ↗CEPII | Etalab Open Licence 2.0 ↗ | Gaulier, G. and Zignago, S. (2010) BACI: International Trade Database at the Product-Level. The 1994-2007 Version. CEPII Working Paper, N°2010-23. Name the source and its last update date. |
Only sources in use are listed. The base map is Natural Earth (public domain). Sites mapped by volunteers are © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the ODbL.
Fair use of the site
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Last changed: 13 November 2026.