Metal Applications™
What uses this metal? Explore the industries, applications and real metal-intensity figures behind global demand — every number sourced. Metal Applications breaks demand down by end-use sector — construction, electronics, transport, energy — and pairs each one with an intensity figure: how much of the metal a typical unit of that product actually contains, drawn from named industry sources rather than an internal estimate. The chart and table below show, for every metal tracked here, which single application claims the largest share of its demand. How this works →
Top Application's Share of Demand, by Metal
Each metal's single largest mapped use-sector, as a share of its total demand — the taller the bar, the more concentrated that metal's demand is in one application.
Top Use Sector, by Metal
Each metal's single largest mapped demand sector, from the same data behind the chart above.
| Metal | Top Use Sector | Demand Share % |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Jewellery | 38.0% |
| Silver | Industrial (electronics, solar) | 59.0% |
| Platinum | Automotive (Autocatalysts) | 42.0% |
| Palladium | Catalytic Converters (Automotive) | 80.0% |
| Rhodium | Automotive (Autocatalysts) | 85.0% |
| Copper | Building Construction | 42.0% |
| Aluminium | Transportation | 36.0% |
| Cobalt | Batteries | 73.0% |
| Gallium | Integrated Circuits (ICs) | 74.0% |
| Iron Ore | Construction & Infrastructure | 51.0% |
| Lead | Lead-Acid Batteries | 86.0% |
| Molybdenum | Engineering, Tool & High-Speed Steels + Superalloys | 60.0% |
| Nickel | Stainless Steel | 64.0% |
| Tin | Solder | 51.0% |
| Tellurium | Solar Power Cells (CdTe Thin-Film) | 40.0% |
| Uranium | Nuclear Power Generation | 99.0% |
| Zinc | Construction | 50.0% |
