Metals and mining

The natural resources and the mining sector are essential for China’s sustainable economic growth. Due to surging power consumption and industrial progress, the country already became the world’s largest consumer of materials such as coal ...

According to the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), in the first quarter of 2019, China produced 231.1mn tonnes of crude steel and 269.1mn tonnes of steel products, up by 8.9% y/y and 9% y/y, respectively. Data from the National Bureau of ...

With an output of 34.7mn tonnes in 2018, Brazil remained the world’s ninth largest crude steel manufacturer and the sixth biggest net steel exporter. The country is also an important player in the global non-ferrous metals processing segment, ...

Though the country has abundant metal resources, Indonesia’s metal processing sector is underdeveloped. It has low penetration rate as it accounted for less than 1% of the country’s nominal GDP in 2018. However, the government sees it as ...

Colombia is Latin America’s fourth-largest economy, after Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, but, unlike its peers in the region, the country has experienced steady growth over the past five years, thanks to stable and conservative economic policies ...

Peru is one of the leading global players in the production of metallic minerals. In 2018, the country ranked second in the world in terms of mine output of silver, copper and zinc, with global shares of 15.2%, 11.6% and 11.3%, respectively. Moreover ...

The metallic and non-metallic mineral mining sector was responsible for 1.1% of Poland’s GDP in 2017 and employed 14,680 persons. The main non-coal minerals extracted in Poland are copper, silver, zinc and lead, as well as many industrial ...

The steel sector contributed about 2% of the Indian economy’s total GVA in FY2018, employing 500,000 people directly and 2.5mn people indirectly. Indian crude steel production is the second-largest in the world and the domestic steel market is ...

China is the world’s largest producer of steel, accounting for 51% of the global steel production in 2018, according to the World Steel Association. The data from China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) shows that in 2018, China produced more ...

Being the world’s second-largest economy, China relies heavily on natural resources, which are essential for the country’s sustainable development. The rising energy consumption has already made China the world’s largest producer ...