Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-16

Critical Materials Atlas Maps the World’s Chokepoints

An interactive public-data atlas traces 32 critical materials from reserves and mining through refining, trade, and geopolitical dependency.

Why it surfaced

The atlas follows materials past the usual mine-and-export map: it reconciles bilateral trade data from 2002–2024, adds a nowcast, and identifies where control concentrates. Its examples are sharp—China refines 87% of gallium while mining almost none—and its stress tests ask who could actually replace a chokepoint.