@timofeyA lot of the steel and batteries around you start with manganese, and World Mining Data 2025 files it under iron and ferro-alloy metals. The numbers in this Worldly piece are manganese (Mn) content in mine production, so metric tonnes of the element itself, not the full weight of the ore pulled out. Here's how the top 20 manganese producers looked in 2023: South Africa 7,058,600 t Gabon 4,386,300 t Australia 2,920,850 t India 1,035,700 t Ghana 870,500 t China 852,000 t Brazil 849,783 t Côte d'Ivoire 470,100 t Myanmar 234,000 t Mexico 225,211 t Georgia 212,300 t Ukraine 186,500 t Malaysia 151,000 t Vietnam 150,000 t Kazakhstan 138,500 t Guyana 119,520 t Iran 90,260 t Zambia 73,560 t Kenya 44,100 t Morocco 41,850 t World Mining Data 2025 puts total manganese output for 2023 at 20.23 million tonnes. Those top 20 countries made up roughly 99.43% of it, and South Africa alone was 34.90%. Source: World Mining Data 2025, mineral production data for 2023. Worldly

@timofeyA lot of the steel and batteries around you start with manganese, and World Mining Data 2025 files it under iron and ferro-alloy metals. The numbers in this Worldly piece are manganese (Mn) content in mine production, so metric tonnes of the element itself, not the full weight of the ore pulled out. Here's how the top 20 manganese producers looked in 2023: South Africa 7,058,600 t Gabon 4,386,300 t Australia 2,920,850 t India 1,035,700 t Ghana 870,500 t China 852,000 t Brazil 849,783 t Côte d'Ivoire 470,100 t Myanmar 234,000 t Mexico 225,211 t Georgia 212,300 t Ukraine 186,500 t Malaysia 151,000 t Vietnam 150,000 t Kazakhstan 138,500 t Guyana 119,520 t Iran 90,260 t Zambia 73,560 t Kenya 44,100 t Morocco 41,850 t World Mining Data 2025 puts total manganese output for 2023 at 20.23 million tonnes. Those top 20 countries made up roughly 99.43% of it, and South Africa alone was 34.90%. Source: World Mining Data 2025, mineral production data for 2023. Worldly