# Cobalt — who supplies the world

World cobalt mine production: 310 kt in the 2025 USGS estimate. DR Congo leads with 74%; the top three hold 91%. Every producer's sourced share.

Canonical: https://terralore.co/commodities/cobalt
Updated: 2026-08-14 (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries edition)

What is measured: the MCS statistics row "Mine production" — mine production in tonnes, what left mines in each calendar year. Not reserves in the ground, and not refined or smelted output. 2025 is the USGS estimate; 2024 is the reported figure.

World total: 310 kt (2025 est.) · 302 kt (2024).
Shares are computed against the published world total itself, never against the sum of listed producers.

## Producers (12 listed)

| Rank | Nation | 2024 | 2025 est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DR Congo | 226 kt · 75% | 230 kt · 74% |
| 2 | Indonesia | 35.0 kt · 12% | 44.0 kt · 14% |
| 3 | Russia | 8,000 t · 2.6% | 7,700 t · 2.5% |
| 4 | Madagascar | 3,100 t · 1.0% | 3,900 t · 1.3% |
| 5 | Australia | 4,780 t · 1.6% | 3,700 t · 1.2% |
| 6 | Philippines | 3,100 t · 1.0% | 3,700 t · 1.2% |
| 7 | Canada | 3,350 t · 1.1% | 3,500 t · 1.1% |
| 8 | Papua New Guinea | 2,630 t · 0.87% | 2,800 t · 0.90% |
| 9 | China | 2,000 t · 0.66% | 2,000 t · 0.65% |
| 10 | Cuba | 3,450 t · 1.1% | 2,000 t · 0.65% |
| 11 | Türkiye | 2,200 t · 0.73% | 1,900 t · 0.61% |
| 12 | United States | 200 t · 0.07% | 300 t · 0.10% |
| — | Rest of world | 8,190 t · 2.7% | 4,500 t · 1.5% |

Rest of world is the published world total minus the producers listed: the MCS "Other countries" aggregate, withheld figures, and production this atlas does not file under a separate entity. It is real, published tonnage not attributable to a single nation here.

Machine-readable claims — every share and tonnage above as an addressable claim ID with its derivation and a ready citation string: https://terralore.co/commodities/cobalt.claims.json

## Sources

- Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 — U.S. Geological Survey · Public domain (U.S. Government work) · accessed 2026-08-14 · https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center

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