{"id":4761,"date":"2023-11-17T11:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:36:44","slug":"all-the-metals-we-mined-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4761","title":{"rendered":"All the metals we mined in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The above infographic visualizes all\u00a02.8 billion\u00a0tonnes of metals mined in 2022 and highlights each metal\u2019s largest end-use using data from the United States Geological Survey USGS.<\/p>\n<p>Iron ore dominates the metals mining landscape, comprising\u00a093%\u00a0of the total mined.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial metals rank second, accounting for 6.6% of the amount. These include copper, aluminum, lead, zinc and others.<\/p>\n<p>Aluminum accounted for nearly 40% of industrial metal production in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>China contributed for 56% of all aluminum produced.<\/p>\n<p>Technology metals, which have been in the spotlight over the past few years, represent less than 1% of all metal mined.<\/p>\n<p>They include lithium and cobalt, used in electric vehicles and battery storage, and rare earths, used in magnets, metal alloys, and electronics.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above infographic visualizes all\u00a02.8 billion\u00a0tonnes of metals mined in 2022 and highlights each metal\u2019s largest end-use using data from the United States Geological Survey USGS. Iron ore dominates the metals mining landscape, comprising\u00a093%\u00a0of the total mined. Industrial metals rank second, accounting for 6.6% of the amount. These include copper, aluminum, lead, zinc and others. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}