Rare Earth Minerals (tons, base price $50,000) is extractable strategic minerals — small volumes but critical for electronics, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
Market behaviour
Prices blend 75% global supply/demand with 25% regional pressure and drift toward equilibrium at 6% per turn. Shortages compress downstream margins logarithmically; surpluses hand sellers a premium on the same curve.
Because Rare Earth Minerals is an extractable resource, per-state output is capped by state resource capacity. The live distribution below shows each country's current capacity alongside supply and demand.
Who supplies it
Sectors that produce Rare Earth Minerals as output, with per-revenue supply rates:
- Extraction & Mining — 10% of sector revenue
Who demands it
Sectors that consume Rare Earth Minerals as an input, with per-revenue demand rates:
- Technology — 8% of sector revenue
- Defense — 5% of sector revenue
Live distribution
Per-country totals below are pulled live from the current turn's market snapshot. Countries with positive net are exporters on balance; negative nets are importers.