Aluminium This is a list of countries by primary
aluminium production. Primary aluminium is produced from
aluminium oxide which is obtained from
bauxite and excludes recycled aluminium.
Copper Gold This is a list of countries by
gold production in 2024. All production figures refer to primary mine production only (i.e., newly mined gold), excluding recycled gold. Until 2006,
South Africa was the world's largest
gold producer. In 2007, increasing production from other countries and declining production from South Africa meant that
China became the largest producer, although no country has approached the scale of South Africa's period of peak production during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970, South Africa produced 995 tonnes or 32 million ounces of gold, two-thirds of the world's production of 47.5 million ounces.
Iron This is a list of countries by mined
iron ore production in 2024 based on
U.S. Geological Survey data. "Usable iron ore" figures refer to the processed ore product suitable for steelmaking, not the raw extracted material. As such, countries with lower-grade ores like China extensively beneficiate magnetite ores (typically
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Zinc == See also ==