Silicon · Country-wise
Silicon by Country: China, Then a Long Drop to Everyone Else
China mines roughly 85 percent of world silicon metal. No other country reaches even 5 percent, a steeper single-country lead than most of this series.
Lower shareHigher share
China
3900 kt
Brazil
240 kt
Norway
180 kt
United States
140 kt
Russia
140 kt
Reserves follow the same pattern
Quartz reserve estimates put China overwhelmingly ahead as well (roughly 1,590 units against Germany’s 55 and the United States’ 40 on the dashboard’s own published scale), reinforcing that this concentration is not a temporary production-capacity artefact the way magnesium’s is, covered on magnesium’s supply chain page, China appears to hold both the capacity and the underlying resource advantage here.
Sources: production and reserve figures reference this project’s own verified production data (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025).