拉丁美洲矿业部门报告(2023-2024年)
The Latin American region hosts some of the world’s largest reserves of metallic and non-metallic
minerals, according to the Mineral Commodities Summary issued by the United States Geological
Service (USGS) in February 2023. As per USGS data, the region is home to the world’s largest reserves
of copper, lithium, silver, and niobium, and it also has significant reserves of tin, lead, zinc, iron ore,
gold, molybdenum, and manganese. Besides, Latin America is home to both the largest and the
second-largest producers of copper (Chile and Peru), the largest producer of niobium and the secondlargest
producer of iron ore (Brazil), the second- and fourth-largest producers of lithium (Chile and
Argentina), and the biggest and third-biggest producers of silver (Mexico and Peru, respectively).