Modern technology — phones, electric cars, grids, defense equipment — depends on a set of critical minerals whose supply is often geographically concentrated, sometimes in conflict-affected regions. When supply sits in a few places, localized disruption can have outsized global effects. Warconomy does not yet carry a minerals price series, so this hub explains the mechanisms and points to authoritative external data.
- The things we rely on every day are built from minerals dug in a handful of places. Concentration plus conflict is a structural risk to the supply chains behind electronics and electrification.
- Every figure lives on its own source-linked page — this guide adds no new numbers.
- Careful, associative language: not investment advice, not legal advice, not real-time.
Why this matters
The things we rely on every day are built from minerals dug in a handful of places. Concentration plus conflict is a structural risk to the supply chains behind electronics and electrification.
What the data shows
- Plain-English briefings on critical minerals in Africa, eastern DRC cobalt/copper, and the Sahel's uranium and gold.
- Links to USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries and other authoritative external sources for the underlying figures.
- The data-needs backlog and free-data roadmap for where a future minerals series could come from.
Warconomy pages on this topic
What this cannot prove
- It asserts no specific mine output or mineral price, and no claim that a particular event changed supply by a measured amount.
- Supply concentration describes exposure, not a prediction of disruption.
- Warconomy does not track live mine production or real-time mineral prices.
Sources & data
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