India Metal Reserves
USGS reports 10 commodities with a reserve or production figure for India, led by Bauxite and Alumina at 7.22% of the reported global reserve. See India'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 India. 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
India's Reported Commodities
| Commodity | Category | Reserve | Global Reserve Share | 2025 Production | Global Production Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite and Alumina | Base | 650,000 thousand metric dry tons, bauxite | 7.22% | 25,000 thousand metric dry tons, bauxite | 5.68% |
| Chromium | Strategic | 27,000 thousand metric tons, Cr2O3 content | Not calculated | 3,000 thousand metric tons, gross weight | 5.88% |
| Copper | Base | 2,200 thousand metric tons, copper content | 0.22% | 620 thousand metric tons, copper content | 2.14% |
| Iron Ore | Base | 3,400 million metric tons, iron content | 3.91% | 310,000 thousand metric tons, usable ore | 11.92% |
| Lead | Base | 1,900 thousand metric tons (lead content) | 2.00% | 220 thousand metric tons (lead content) | 4.89% |
| Manganese | Battery | 34,000 thousand metric tons (gross weight) | 1.89% | 790 thousand metric tons (gross weight) | 3.95% |
| Rare Earths | Rare-earth | 14 metric tons (rare-earth-oxide (REO) equi | Not calculated | 2,900 metric tons (rare-earth-oxide (REO) equi | 0.74% |
| Silver | Precious | 8,000 metric tons (silver content) | 1.31% | 800 metric tons (silver content) | 3.08% |
| Titanium Mineral Concentrates | Strategic | 15,000 thousand metric tons, TiO2 content | Not calculated | 240 thousand metric tons, TiO2 content | 2.55% |
| Zinc | Base | 10,000 thousand metric tons (zinc content) | 4.17% | 870 thousand metric tons (zinc content) | 6.69% |
