Data · Coverage

How much of the sector the Hub holds, and how well.

This is the Hub’s single view of coverage. It distinguishes what public sources name, where independent corroboration exists and what the Hub has not yet been able to establish.

The figures on this page are calculated from the same public evidence as the Sector Map. Read them as a picture of breadth, corroboration and known gaps, not as a claim of complete sector coverage.

What the Hub can show

Each entry below is one named thing in the public evidence, grouped into the kinds a reader actually asks about. The counts move as new public sources are read.

367
Mine sites
1,107
Producers, traders and refiners
189
Jurisdictions
85
Initiatives
211
Source institutions

5520 entries overall, of every kind the Hub holds

Where the evidence is independently supported

An entry is counted as corroborated here only when its own sources resolve to two or more independent publishers, a floor deliberately set hard to clear. Publishing where that bar is not yet met is the strongest argument for the rest: public evidence that shows its own thin spots is more credible than evidence that hides them.

243 / 367Mine sites

resting on exactly one source. 124 standing on two or more independent sources.

798 / 1107Producers, traders and refiners

resting on exactly one source. 309 standing on two or more independent sources.

154 / 189Jurisdictions

resting on exactly one source. 35 standing on two or more independent sources.

75 / 85Initiatives

resting on exactly one source. 10 standing on two or more independent sources.

154 / 211Source institutions

resting on exactly one source. 57 standing on two or more independent sources.

What public sources do not yet establish

Named gaps, not implied ones. Each figure below is a count of what the Hub does not yet hold, stated the same way as everything it does.

146Chain-of-custody relationships

Edges naming who supplies ore to whom, who ships to whom and who sources from whom. Public sources describe custody mostly at geography grain, not counterparty grain, and this is the measured size of that gap.

157 / 367Mine sites with no recorded position

No latitude and longitude held at all, so these sites cannot appear on a coordinate map even when everything else about them is known.

214Entities placed in no country at all

Public sources name them but do not yet link them to a jurisdiction, so they sit outside every country-level view on the Hub.

14Claims where sources disagree

Published both ways, with no winner picked and nothing blended. Where sources conflict, that is what this hub shows.

Every figure on this page is computed at build time from what the Hub holds. None is written into the copy, so none of them can go stale against it.

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What the Hub cannot locate

Missing country attribution and missing map positions are different gaps. These lists follow the Countries atlas.

No country established by public sources

  • Source document: 72
  • Producer organisation: 23
  • Media & research organisation: 21
  • Mine site / workings: 19
  • Certification scheme / standard: 11
  • Regulator / public authority: 10
  • Trader / exporter / intermediary: 9
  • Civil-society organisation: 7
  • Industry association / private standard-setter: 7
  • Initiative / programme: 7
  • Regulatory action / enforcement: 7
  • Refinery / smelter: 5
  • Downstream manufacturer / brand: 4
  • Financial institution: 4
  • Armed or non-state actor: 2
  • Funder / development partner: 2
  • Incident: 2
  • Mining title / concession: 1
  • Person: 1

Places without a point on the atlas

These places have entries, but the atlas has no position for them. A body spanning several countries may have no single meaningful point.

  • Saudi Arabia: 11
  • Tajikistan: 11
  • French Guiana: 9
  • Argentina: 8
  • South Sudan: 6
  • Azerbaijan: 4
  • Chad: 3
  • Finland: 3
  • Georgia: 3
  • Lebanon: 3
  • Liberia: 3
  • Midlands Province: 3
  • Sikasso region: 3
  • Cameroon: 2
  • Egypt: 2
  • Greenland: 2
  • Ireland: 2
  • Jordan: 2
  • Laos: 2
  • Liechtenstein: 2
  • Malaysia: 2
  • Morocco: 2
  • Romania: 2
  • Adansi North District: 1
  • Akim-Oda District Centre: 1
  • Amudat District: 1
  • Armenia: 1
  • Asankragwa District Centre: 1
  • Bibiani District Centre: 1
  • Buhweju District: 1
  • Bulgaria: 1
  • Burundi: 1
  • Busia District: 1
  • Chisamba District: 1
  • Chongwe District: 1
  • Daloa: 1
  • Denmark: 1
  • Dunkwa District Centre: 1
  • Georgetown: 1
  • Kaduna State: 1
  • Kassanda District: 1
  • Kayes region: 1
  • Kebbi State: 1
  • Kisoro District: 1
  • Koulikoro region: 1
  • Latvia: 1
  • Libya: 1
  • Luxembourg: 1
  • Malawi: 1
  • Mara: 1
  • Mbeya: 1
  • Moroto District: 1
  • Mpika District: 1
  • Mumbwa District: 1
  • Namayingo District: 1
  • Niger: 1
  • Norway: 1
  • Papua New Guinea: 1
  • Rufunsa District: 1
  • Shinyanga: 1
  • Somalia: 1
  • Tarkwa District Centre: 1
  • Togo: 1
  • Ukraine: 1
  • Uruguay: 1
  • Venezuela: 1
  • Vubwi District: 1
  • Zamfara State: 1

Countries, regions and mine sites

Country and regional pins locate areas. The atlas does not show the position of each mine within them. A site with sufficiently precise coordinates has a map on its own entry; a combined map of all mine sites is still missing.

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