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SECTOR PROFILE · 2024
Mineral Extraction
≈ 43.9 million cars/yr202 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr0.3% of global tracked
The worst emitters in mineral extraction: countries and companies, side-by-side.
- What is it?
- Mining and quarrying: pulling metals, ores, rock and sand out of the ground.
- Why does it emit?
- Diesel for heavy machinery plus methane released as overlying rock is removed.
- What’s it equivalent to?
- That’s about 43.9 million cars driven for a year.
About this sector
The league tables below rank both the countries where this sector is largest and the companies whose biggest attributed sector is mineral extraction. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.
202 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total46Countries ranked13Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1China= 7.3M cars/yr33.7 Mt CO₂eNEW2Russia= 4.3M cars/yr20 Mt CO₂eNEW3India= 2.9M cars/yr13.5 Mt CO₂eNEW4Kazakhstan= 2.8M cars/yr12.9 Mt CO₂eNEW5USA= 2.3M cars/yr10.7 Mt CO₂eNEW6Australia= 2.3M cars/yr10.5 Mt CO₂eNEW7Iran= 1.6M cars/yr7.4 Mt CO₂eNEW8Brazil= 1.4M cars/yr6.4 Mt CO₂eNEW9South Africa= 1.1M cars/yr5.2 Mt CO₂eNEW10Canada= 1.1M cars/yr5 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all countries (46)
11Indonesia= 815k cars/yr3.7 Mt CO₂eNEW12Algeria= 531k cars/yr2.4 Mt CO₂eNEW13Mexico= 487k cars/yr2.2 Mt CO₂eNEW14Mongolia= 308k cars/yr1.4 Mt CO₂eNEW15Philippines= 299k cars/yr1.4 Mt CO₂eNEW16Turkey= 265k cars/yr1.2 Mt CO₂eNEW17Uzbekistan= 216k cars/yr994 kt CO₂eNEW18Colombia= 197k cars/yr906.4 kt CO₂eNEW19Ukraine= 175k cars/yr807.3 kt CO₂eNEW20France= 165k cars/yr759.5 kt CO₂eNEW21Viet Nam= 153k cars/yr705.9 kt CO₂eNEW22Japan= 119k cars/yr549.2 kt CO₂eNEW23Spain= 108k cars/yr499.1 kt CO₂eNEW24Tanzania= 102k cars/yr469.9 kt CO₂eNEW25Poland= 101k cars/yr463.4 kt CO₂eNEW26Germany= 87.3k cars/yr401.8 kt CO₂eNEW27Argentina= 69.6k cars/yr320.4 kt CO₂eNEW28Italy= 48.1k cars/yr221.3 kt CO₂eNEW29Netherlands= 26.7k cars/yr122.8 kt CO₂eNEW30Pakistan= 20.5k cars/yr94.1 kt CO₂eNEW31Kuwait= 14.7k cars/yr67.7 kt CO₂eNEW32Oman= 14k cars/yr64.5 kt CO₂eNEW33Ethiopia= 10.9k cars/yr50.3 kt CO₂eNEW34Saudi Arabia= 10.2k cars/yr46.9 kt CO₂eNEW35South Korea= 9.4k cars/yr43.3 kt CO₂eNEW36Thailand= 9.4k cars/yr43.3 kt CO₂eNEW37Malaysia= 8.1k cars/yr37.4 kt CO₂eNEW38UK= 6.1k cars/yr28 kt CO₂eNEW39Taiwan= 4.3k cars/yr20 kt CO₂eNEW40Venezuela= 1.4k cars/yr6.6 kt CO₂eNEW41Nigeria= 318 cars/yr1.5 kt CO₂eNEW42Bangladesh= 315 cars/yr1.5 kt CO₂eNEW43Egypt= 201 cars/yr925 t CO₂eNEW44Sudan= 55 cars/yr251 t CO₂eNEW45Iraq= 12 cars/yr53 t CO₂eNEW46Qatar= 1 cars/yr5 t CO₂eNEW
Top companies in this sector
601Kazakhmys Corporation LLC= 726k cars/yr3.3 Mt CO₂eNEW997Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation Organization= 474k cars/yr2.2 Mt CO₂eNEW1212Southern Copper Corp= 211k cars/yr970.1 kt CO₂eNEW1506Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC= 88.7k cars/yr407.9 kt CO₂eNEW1513Government of Kazakhstan= 86.6k cars/yr398.4 kt CO₂eNEW1524Nova Resources BV= 134k cars/yr615 kt CO₂eNEW1602Rio Tinto PLC= 42.4k cars/yr195.1 kt CO₂eNEW1605Russian Copper Company JSC= 43.3k cars/yr199.2 kt CO₂eNEW1617Erdenet Mining Corp= 26.7k cars/yr122.8 kt CO₂eNEW1622Bold Tumur Eruu Gol LLC= 52.3k cars/yr240.7 kt CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0