List Of Minerals And Their Largest Producing Countries.

In 2020, Russian mines produced approximately 19 million carats of diamonds, making it the world's largest natural industrial diamond producer that year.Home to arguably the richest and largest diamond resources in the world, Russia tops the list with more than 12 open-pit mines.

In 2020, China's mines produced an estimated 380 metric tons of gold. China is the largest gold producer in the world.China, Australia, Russia, and the United States are respectively the largest producers of gold in the world. Global production of gold reached approximately 3,200 metric tons in 2020. 

Mexico's silver mines produced some 6,300 metric tons of silver in 2020, making Mexico the world's largest silver producer. Peru and China ranked second and third, respectively.

The largest reserves are located in Chile, which is also by far the world's top copper producing country ahead of Peru and China. According to the US Geological Survey, around 20 million tonnes of copper were produced globally in 2020, a small decline compared to the previous year. 

World mine production of zinc was approximately 12.8 million tonnes in 2019. China was the largest producer of zinc with 4.3 million tonnes or 33.7% of the global total. Canada and Russia ranked eighth, tied with both countries producing 300,000 tonnes of zinc or 2.4% of the total. 

First on this list of aluminum-producing countries is China. The world's leading producer was once again responsible for more than half of global aluminum output in 2020. It put out 37 million MT, and also consumed a considerable amount of the metal. 

The mainstreaming of thorium reactors worldwide thus offers an enormous advantage to proliferation-resistance as well as the environment. For India, it offers the added benefit that it can enter the export market [India has the largest reserves of thorium]. Scientists predict that the impact of climate change will be worse on India. Advancing the deployment of thorium reactors by four to six decades via a plutonium market might be the most effective step towards curtailing carbon emissions. 

Australia, Guinea and China are some of the most dominant countries in bauxite mine production, generating 110 million, 82 million, and 60 million metric tons of bauxite, respectively, in 2020. In the United States, revenue from aluminum manufacturing has decreased from 43.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2008 to 37 billion U.S. dollars in 2013. However, global demand for aluminum is expected to increase by 5.1 percent in 2015.