Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios
Rapid scenario modelling for winning strategies. Layers of insights to attract and allocate capital.
Step into a realm of interconnected insights
In markets where data is fragmented, even the most experienced teams struggle to make confident decisions, because they’re operating in the dark. Piecing insights together from incomplete data, outdated spreadsheets, or word-of-mouth intelligence isn’t efficient. It’s risky, and it’s costing you real capital. Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios brings all your market intelligence in one place - fast, clear, and easy to use.

Features and workflows
Analyse multiple metals markets and compare your view with Wood Mackenzie’s outlooks using interactive visuals and tools that let you filter, customise, and export in seconds.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios:
- Analyse market fundamentals drivers (supply, demand, prices and trade flows) at the region, country and company level under Wood Mackenzie’s base case scenario and alternative energy transition outlooks
- Compare absolute or delta values between two outlooks to understand the market drivers behind the differences
- Assess business resilience under alternative market scenario outlooks
- Understand future pricing under alternative market scenario outlooks
- Extract charts, graphs and data within seconds
- Collaborate and share your views with your colleagues
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios data on:
- Wood Mackenzie's base case, net-zero and pledges scenarios published annually
- Copper demand, supply, and market balance forecasts under different scenarios for the next 30 years, with data and analysis extending to 2050
- Long-term copper price forecasts under different scenarios, featuring 40+ years of historical price data with forecasts extending to 2050
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.
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios enables a number of key workflows including:
- Analyse market fundamentals and performance to understand how markets will grow and change over short- to long-term planning horizons
- Understand decarbonisation targets, track industry progress, and determine the specific requirements for each energy transition scenario
- Evaluate different market scenarios (base case, pledges, net-zero scenarios) to assess potential outcomes and risks
Why choose Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios?
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.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios. If you have any other questions, contact us.
Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios enables comprehensive analysis of market fundamental drivers including supply, demand, prices, and trade flows at regional and country across different scenarios. This is particularly valuable when analysing energy transition scenarios on demand to assess impacts on your long-term sustainability goals.
Our scenarios include:
- Base case: Our assessment of the most likely outcome, corresponding to 2.5°C warming, incorporating current policies and technology advancement.
- Country pledges: How countries' existing emissions targets are achieved, roughly aligned with a 2-degree warming trajectory.
- Net zero by 2050: A credible pathway achieving the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree warming target by 2100.
Our scenarios are based on cross-sector, multi-commodity modelling, integrating analyses across power and renewables, oil and gas, metals and mining, downstream and chemicals, and emerging technologies. You can compare absolute or delta values between scenarios to understand the specific market drivers behind any differences.
Lens Metals & Mining Markets Scenarios enables comprehensive risk assessment and resilience planning against evolving market conditions.
You can:
- Identify business risks by analysing potential supply disruptions, demand shifts, and price volatility across different energy transition scenarios.
- Assess business resilience by evaluating your performance under alternative market outlooks, including net-zero and pledges scenarios that directly impact copper demand patterns.
- Understand pricing implications across different energy transition pathways to anticipate both risks and opportunities, while aligning with sustainability objectives.
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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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.
