Wood Mackenzie Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast

Wood Mackenzie Lens, our powerful data analytics platform, brings you a holistic view of risk and return from raw materials to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital​.

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Simplify the complex with a single view across the energy value chain

Minimise the time spent consolidating information from disparate sources. With Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast, you can gather immediate market insights and conduct robust due diligence before entering a new market. 

Features and workflows

Access to supply, demand, balances and price forecasts outlooks out to 2050, enabling you to identify market trends, compare long-term market outlooks, and understand market drivers.

Key featurs of Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast:

  • Visualise key market drivers of single or multiple commodities easily
  • Compare absolute or delta values between two outlooks to understand the market drivers behind the differences
  • Understand how different assumptions impact the market fundamentals
  • Analyse data through multiple parameters such as status, production method, product type and more
  • Extract charts, graphs and data within seconds
  • Collaborate and share your views with your colleagues

Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast provides short-term and long-term market data, insights, and price forecasts to 2050 covering supply, demand, and market balances for metals and mined commodities:

  • Aluminium: Global aluminium supply-demand forecasts with alumina price projections and primary production tracking.
  • Copper: Copper price forecasts, refined copper deficit analysis, and mine-to-refinery supply projections.
  • Zinc: Zinc market surplus/deficit forecasts with refined zinc demand and smelter production tracking.
  • Lead: Lead price forecasts and automotive battery demand projections by end-use sector.
  • Lithium: Lithium carbonate and hydroxide price forecasts with global supply-demand balance analysis.
  • Cobalt: Cobalt supply chain forecasts from mine to battery-grade material with price projections.
  • Graphite: Battery-grade graphite demand forecasts for EV anodes with natural and synthetic supply tracking.
  • Rare Earths: Rare earth supply forecasts by element with price projections and China export impact analysis.
  • Coal: Seaborne metallurgical and thermal coal trade forecasts with 20+ year price outlook.
  • Iron Ore: Iron ore price and seaborne trade forecasts with country-level supply-demand balance.
  • Steel:  Steel production capacity and price forecasts with regional trade flow analysis.
  • EV Battery Supply Chain:  Lithium-ion battery supply-demand forecasts by chemistry with raw material to pack projections.

 

Quick refresh of charts & analysis via API 

  • Extend your Lens access by seamlessly integrating Wood Mackenzie data into your workflow with Lens Direct, our powerful API service. 

Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast enables a number of key workflows including:

  • Strategic Planning: Analyse market fundamentals, performance, trade balances, and price drivers.
  • Operational planning: Support operational planning, forecast revenue, identify opportunities and risks.
  • Supply Chain Analysis: Manage risks by analysing material flow from mines to refineries.

Why choose Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast?

Specifically designed for your workflows: A data analytics platform made for all enterprise users to get immediate insights and foster collaboration.

Global data coverage: Meticulously built bottom-up, asset-by-asset and integrated with multi-sector market analysis for a consistent, precise view across mined commodities for robust capital investment decisions.

Integrated: An interconnected global view incorporating assets and market analysis that empower decisions. 

Cross-commodity solution: An integrated cross-commodity view of how markets and assets develop across the value chain as per Wood Mackenzie’s energy transition scenarios. 

Market expertise: Gain invaluable insights from a global team of industry experts with in-depth knowledge across an increasingly connected energy, chemicals, metals and mining value chain. 

Seamless access to data: API service to seamlessly ingest and integrate Wood Mackenzie’s data into your proprietary systems and BI tools. 

Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast

Comprehensive analysis of key drivers affecting the metals market. Access detailed long-term outlooks, pricing forecasts and key insights across the metals and mining value chain.

Click to discover how our data analytics platform help you spot market trends, assess supply and demand, and access critical market data, such as pricing, trade balances, and market balance.

Frequently asked questions

Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast. If you have any other questions, get in touch.

Our global data stands out due to our comprehensive and integrated approach to market analysis. We provide accurate market balances and price forecasts with our proprietary supply data, in-house demand research, and detailed trade information.

What truly sets us apart from the traditional approach is our interconnected data and insights from multiple sectors, including power, renewables, oil, gas, and chemicals. Our cross-sector approach provides a coordinated view of key demand drivers, resulting in a more holistic and interconnected market analysis.

  • How are production costs being impacted this year?
  • Which energy transition-related sector will be in demand in the next 10 and 30 years?
  • How long will it take to utilise the current consumption level of a particular metal?
  • Which countries are driving the difference in the market forecast?

Gain direct access to our analysts and research to stay ahead of market developments. Our industry-leading qualitative analysis, combined with an advanced data analytics, delivers unmatched data and scope across key mined commodities through Lens Metals & Mining.

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Make data-driven decisions today with Lens Metals & Mining, designed for all enterprise users to access immediate market insights and understand the market outlook in depth. Let us show you how. 

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