The African critical minerals supply chain, mapped from mine to market.
Mintrac tracks trade flows, production, prices, and market events across African critical minerals, turning fragmented, siloed source material into a single proprietary intelligence product.
Africa holds the minerals the energy transition runs on.
Cobalt, platinum, chromium, manganese, lithium. The volumes are large, the flows are complex, and the decisions that turn on them are larger still.
This market is opaque, and the information about it is siloed. Trade statistics, mine-level production reports, price fixes, company disclosures, and permit registers each describe a different slice of it, on different schedules, in different formats, from different authorities that do not talk to each other.
Mintrac's analysts work through those silos and turn them into a single proprietary dataset, built to support the decisions that depend on this market actually being understood.
Proprietary data and analysis, from mine to market
Export volumes and values by mineral, origin, and destination. Monthly, at HS8 granularity, every revision tracked.
Explore the data →Mine-level output, so you can see what share is exported raw and what share is processed first.
Explore the data →LPPM and LBMA prices integrated, so any change in export value separates into a price effect and a volume effect.
Explore the data →The policies, offtake agreements, and permit changes that move the numbers, annotated and dated.
Read the analysis →The decisions that turn on this data are larger than the data itself.
You are conducting due diligence on a project in the Northern Cape. You need independent data on what the export market actually looks like, not what an operator's feasibility study says.
Your manufacturing group sources critical minerals from Southern Africa. You want to see how volumes and destinations have shifted over the past three years before your next supply agreement.
You are writing a paper on critical mineral supply chains. You need figures you can footnote, traced back to the source document rather than a secondary aggregator.
Proprietary intelligence, built from primary sources.
African critical minerals have been under-covered for a long time. The price data exists. The volume data, the flow data, and the corporate structure behind it have not kept pace with the stakes.
Mintrac builds from the original source documents. Other services aggregate what producers and agencies already publish.
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The African critical minerals supply chain, mapped
Select a mineral to see where it goes, who produces it, and what moved the numbers.