Tantalum in numbers
Tantalum (Ta) drawn as one poster: 2.5 kt of world mine production in 2025, DR Congo the largest producer, 7 critical mineral lists. Scroll to draw it, then download it as SVG or PNG.
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The numbers
The figures on the poster, with their sources. Production and reserves are USGS estimates, trade values are CEPII BACI customs data, demand is the IEA's outlook.
- World mine production, 2025
- 2.5 kt (Ta content) USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
- Largest producer
- DR Congo, 1.3 kt (52% of world) USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
- Top three producers' share
- 84% USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
- Critical mineral lists
- 7 current lists in 7 jurisdictions (Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, India, South Korea, United States) government critical mineral lists
- US net import reliance, 2025
- 100% USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
- Price, 2025
- 180 $/kg (Price, tantalite, annual average, dollars per kilogram of tantalum oxide (Ta2O5) content) USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
- World production, 1969
- 388 t (USGS historical series, as reported) USGS Data Series 140 (historical statistics)
- World production, 2022 (historical series)
- 2.0 kt USGS Data Series 140 (historical statistics)
- Largest trade flow, 2024
- Rwanda → China, $108 m (HS 261590, Niobium, tantalum and vanadium ores and concentrates); world trade $450 m CEPII BACI trade database
Sources
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · USGS Data Series 140 (historical statistics) · CEPII BACI trade database · government critical mineral lists. Figures are rounded; country names follow our atlas.