Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery

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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Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery

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​.

Propel opportunities forward with precision

Eliminate uncertainty in portfolio management decisions. With Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery, you can evaluate the viability of a mining opportunity and assess its potential for maximised investment returns. 

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Opportunity screening made easy

  • Conduct asset screening with an intuitive mapping interface to search, filter, and map assets such as mines, smelters, and refineries in seconds. 
  • View the connection of each asset to critical infrastructures like power plants, railways, and ports using Lens interactive map. 
  • Gain access to granular data encompassing the financial and economic health of each asset.

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  • Compare grades and remaining metals at asset, country, and company levels. 
  • Examine mine production profiles, including grades, recoveries, and by-products.
  • Pinpoint assets with the most efficient production by analysing reserves by production method. 

Maintain a competitive position

  • Transform your market assessment with new benchmark capabilities covering labour, productivity, mine and global average cost.
  • Benchmark against industry peers and develop strategies to improve competitive positioning.
  • Access global cost models of a single or group of mines, smelters and refineries covered by Wood Mackenzie.  

Frequently asked questions

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

Lens Metals & Mining covers key mined commodities like Copper, Nickel, Zinc and Lead. With over 2,000 assets encompassing mines, smelters, refineries and new projects, Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery allows you to identify, evaluate and screen for growth opportunities.

Our metals and mining analysts connect data across the mining value chain, highlighting the energy decarbonisation market trends to ensure the insights Lens brings you are holistic. Our data is 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.

Lens Direct is Wood Mackenzie’s data delivery service that provides a feed connecting users to our extensive datasets, using an API. Here, you can download Wood Mackenzie’s data into your own proprietary systems and BI tools, including Excel, Power BI, Spotfire and Tableau.  

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Whether you are gathering market intelligence, benchmarking against peers, or screening for bankable mining opportunities, we've got you covered. Let us show you how.

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