Overview
Comprehensive Insight into the Global Metals & Minerals Landscape
IIR Energy provides market participants with verified metals and minerals market intelligence across mines, processing plants, smelters, refining assets, and downstream material facilities. Our coverage helps users monitor capacity shifts, project development, and planned and unplanned outages tied to materials that influence power, renewables, batteries, semiconductors, defense, and industrial markets.
From lithium, copper, and nickel to rare earth elements, graphite, gallium, silicon, and platinum group metals, IIR Energy delivers asset-level visibility into the materials shaping electrification, grid expansion, battery storage, advanced manufacturing, and global energy transition strategies. With continuously updated data and direct research support, traders can better understand supply-side fundamentals, identify emerging constraints, and respond faster to market-moving events.
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Key Features of Our Metals & Minerals Market Intelligence
Comprehensive Metals & Minerals Database
Monitor the mines, processing assets, and downstream facilities tied to critical minerals, battery materials, rare earth elements, high-tech metals, platinum group metals, and industrial defense materials.
Mine, Plant & Processing Asset Intelligence
Access verified profiles for mines, mills, smelters, refineries, and processing facilities, including ownership, location, operating status, capacity, products, and key asset details.
Capital Project & Expansion Monitoring
Follow new projects, expansions, upgrades, and commissioning activity that can signal future supply growth or regional changes in production capacity.
Planned & Unplanned Event Visibility
Track scheduled maintenance, shutdowns, restarts, disruptions, and unplanned events that may affect material availability, supply reliability, and short-term market sentiment.
Historical Event & Capacity Data
Use historical outage, maintenance, and project activity to evaluate patterns, benchmark supply risk, and strengthen market assumptions.
Direct Research Access
Direct access to IIR’s research team with Ask Us and Hotline support.
Our Coverage
Metals & Minerals Coverage Across Critical Energy Market Inputs
Energy & Battery Materials
Track assets tied to aluminum, cobalt, copper, graphite, lithium, manganese, nickel, and zinc. These materials are essential to electrification, grid infrastructure, electric vehicles, batteries, renewable energy systems, and broader industrial demand.
Rare Earth Elements
Monitor mining, refining, and processing activity for rare earth elements used in magnets, electronics, defense systems, wind turbines, motors, and high-performance energy technologies. Coverage includes cerium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, holmium, lanthanum, lutetium, neodymium, praseodymium, promethium, samarium, scandium, terbium, thulium, ytterbium, and yttrium.
High-Tech & Semiconductor Materials
Gain visibility into gallium, germanium, indium, and silicon supply chains that support semiconductors, solar technologies, electronics, communications infrastructure, and advanced energy systems.
Platinum Group Metals
Follow platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, and ruthenium assets tied to catalytic converters, hydrogen technologies, fuel cells, refining, chemical processing, and industrial applications.
Industrial & Defense Materials
Track strategic materials including graphite, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, potash, and phosphate. These materials support defense manufacturing, energy storage, agriculture, industrial production, and infrastructure development.
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