From: Visual Capitalist
The world produced roughly 2.8 billion tons of metal in 2021. This chart represents the metals we mined, visualized on the same scale.
This was originally posted on Elements.
“If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it” is a famous saying that encapsulates the importance of minerals and metals in the modern world.
From every building we enter to every device we use, virtually everything around us contains some amount of metal.
The above infographic visualizes all 2.8 billion tonnes of metals mined in 2021 and highlights each metal’s largest end-use using data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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