Brazil Metal Reserves
USGS reports 14 commodities with a reserve or production figure for Brazil, led by Bauxite and Alumina at 18.89% of the reported global reserve. See Brazil's price profile for live metal prices.
USGS assesses roughly 90 mineral commodities worldwide each year, but only compiles a country-level reserve or production breakdown for a given commodity where the underlying data supports one — the table below is every commodity that condition is met for in Brazil. Each row pairs the reserve quantity with its share of the reported global total and last year's production, so it's possible to see at a glance which commodities this country is significant in and which it merely reports a smaller figure for.
Global Reserve Share by Commodity
Brazil's Reported Commodities
| Commodity | Category | Reserve | Global Reserve Share | 2025 Production | Global Production Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite and Alumina | Base | 1,700,000 thousand metric dry tons, bauxite | 18.89% | 33,000 thousand metric dry tons, bauxite | 7.50% |
| Beryllium | Strategic | 80 metric tons (beryllium content) | 18.60% | 80 metric tons (beryllium content) | 18.48% |
| Chromium | Strategic | 1,000 thousand metric tons, Cr2O3 content | Not calculated | 2,000 thousand metric tons, gross weight | 3.92% |
| Gold | Precious | 2,500 metric tons (gold content) | 3.79% | 80 metric tons (gold content) | 2.42% |
| Iron Ore | Base | 15,000 million metric tons, iron content | 17.24% | 420,000 thousand metric tons, usable ore | 16.15% |
| Lithium | Battery | 540,000 metric tons (lithium content) | 7.71% | 12,000 metric tons (lithium content) | 4.14% |
| Magnesium Metal | Strategic | 22 thousand metric tons | 1.22% | 20 thousand metric tons | 1.82% |
| Manganese | Battery | 300,000 thousand metric tons (gross weight) | 16.67% | 800 thousand metric tons (gross weight) | 4.00% |
| Nickel | Base | 6,000,000 metric tons (nickel content) | Not calculated | 70,000 metric tons (nickel content) | 1.79% |
| Niobium | Strategic | 4,000,000 metric tons (niobium content) | Not calculated | 104,000 metric tons (niobium content) | 92.86% |
| Rare Earths | Rare-earth | 1,000,000 metric tons (rare-earth-oxide (REO) equi | Not calculated | 2,000 metric tons (rare-earth-oxide (REO) equi | 0.51% |
| Tantalum | Strategic | 40,000 metric tons (tantalum content) | Not calculated | 190 metric tons (tantalum content) | 7.60% |
| Tin | Base | 700,000 metric tons (tin content) | Not calculated | 28,000 metric tons (tin content) | 9.66% |
| Vanadium | Battery | 94 metric tons (vanadium content) | 0.45% | 5,300 metric tons (vanadium content) | 4.82% |
