The image is a comprehensive infographic illustrating all the metals mined globally in 2022, detailing both the total amounts and their primary end-uses.
Title: All the Metals We Mined in 2022
The world produced almost 2.8 billion tonnes of metal in 2022.
Metals vs Ores:
• Ores: Naturally occurring rocks containing metals or metal compounds.
• Metals: Valuable parts of ores that can be extracted and sold.
Largest End-Use:
A color-coded legend indicates the primary end-uses for the metals:
• Steelmaking
• Construction
• Chemicals
• Energy/Batteries
• Alloying Agents
• Magnets
• Electronics
• Others
Iron Ore:
• Amount: 2.6 billion tonnes
• Visual Representation: A large cube, where each smaller cube represents 1,000,000 tonnes.
• Largest End-Use: Steelmaking
Industrial Metals:
• Total: 185,111,835 tonnes
• Aluminum: 69.0 million tonnes
• ….
• ….
• ….
• Lithium : 130 thousand tonnes
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But what about all that #Lithium mining for all those batteries?
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