Lens Metals & Mining
Unearth robust data analytics from mine to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital
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Lens Metals & Mining
Unearth robust data analytics from mine to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital
Unlock expert insights and data across key mined commodities
Analytical power of Wood Mackenzie matched by transformative power of a data analytics platform, Wood Mackenzie Lens. With over 2,000 assets encompassing mines, smelters, refineries and new projects across key mined commodities, Lens Metals & Mining allows you to identify, evaluate and screen for growth opportunities.
Lens Metals & Mining
Data meticulously built asset-by-asset and integrated with multi-sector market analysis for a consistent, precise view across mined commodities. Accuracy matters.
1500+
Mines
450+
Smelters
350+
Metal refineries
Industry challenges
Market and geopolitical uncertainty
Market and geopolitical uncertainty
- Fluctuating global commodity market prices can delay decision-making and negatively impact your business. With Lens Metals & Mining, you can monitor price changes, mitigate risks effectively, accurately assess investment opportunities, and confidently make faster decisions.
Changing demand and supply patterns
Changing demand and supply patterns
- Consolidating data and information from multiple sources takes time and leads to missed opportunities. Data analytics capabilities in Lens Metals & Mining enable you to understand market drivers, derive immediate insights, quantify risk, and identify opportunities.
Commodities coverage
Copper
Amid a shifting market landscape, Lens Metals & Mining provides reliable and granular data to delve into copper mining asset's financial health and economics to sharpen your portfolio strategies.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Nickel
Navigating nickel supply disruptions is crucial in securing future resources. Lens Metals & Mining provides access to the expected outlook on the global trade balance of nickel imports and exports to develop strategic resourcing plans.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast.
Lead
With the growth of increasingly lead-intensive technologies, you need a platform to understand key drivers of the end-use markets. Only with Lens Metals & Mining can you assess key market drivers in seconds.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Zinc
Adapt to market developments with immediate insights and accelerate your long-term strategic plan with a transparent view of zinc material and trade flows from mine to market through Lens Metals & Mining.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Aluminium
Amid structural oversupply and pricing pressures in the aluminium market, Lens Metals & Mining deliver integrated cross-commodity insights to capture the most bankable opportunities and inform your growth strategy.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast.
Lithium
Rising production and shifting demand of lithium is creating complex market challenges. Lens Metals & Mining simplifies the complexity with intuitive data visualisations to understand expected outlook, market drivers and price forecasts.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Lens Metals & Mining Solutions
Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery
Visualise, screen and benchmark key metal commodities with Assets Discovery.
Discover bankable opportunities for business expansion, benchmark assets to identify target areas for growth and improve competitive position.
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.
Designed to seamlessly fit your workflows
Whether you are gathering market intelligence, benchmarking against peers, or screening for bankable mining opportunities, we've got you covered.
- Analyse market performance over short or long-term horizons within seconds.
- Assess the global trade balance outlook for imports, exports, ores, processed materials, and by-products.
- Understand market balances and the factors driving global metal prices.
- Explore opportunities using an intuitive mapping interface to search, filter, and map assets such as mines, smelters, and refineries.
- View how each asset relates to key infrastructure within the value chain, with data from power plants, hydrogen, emissions, ports, railways and more.
- Analyse market conditions and forecasts to assess the potential of the opportunity.
- Assess an asset's status, condition, ownership, operating costs, margins, production, and cash flow health.
- Validate the asset's value and growth by determining the project's stage, projected cash flows, production, and costs, highlighting the mine's potential and financial viability.
- Determine the strategic fit for potential targets and compare acquisition candidates within an intuitive interface.
- Access key information on a targeted company’s profile, ownership timeline, and assets.
- Explore opportunities for portfolio diversification before entering a new commodity sector.
- Identify potential synergies by comparing your relative position to peers, using asset profiles, cost rankings, and current operational performance.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Designed for a diverse range of professionals and organisations in the mining industry, seeking for a reliable platform to support their strategic workflows seamlessly.
This includes mine owners and operators, investment analysts, fund managers, commodity traders, commercial strategists, business development managers, supply chain and procurement managers.
At Wood Mackenzie, we collaborate closely with our partners from leading mining companies and financial institutions to develop Lens Metals & Mining, bringing you the decision intelligence that matters.
Our intuitive data analytics platform is designed to deliver integrated cross-commodity insights to capture the most bankable opportunities and inform your growth strategy.
Acquire in-depth understanding of how key mined commodities intersect and play a pivotal role in the energy value chain, integrating insights from emissions and other related sectors.
In a single platform, you can:
- Access detailed data on single or multiple assets to analyse investment opportunities globally and see which countries/regions are most active in the commodity supply and demand.
- Understand global supply, demand, trade flows, price forecasts, producers' cost drivers, and their impact from mine to market.
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.
Contact an expert
Our team of experts have modelled hundreds of scenarios to provide comprehensive analyses of the metals and mined commodities sectors, while integrating coverage of the entire energy value chain. Contact our experts to book a demo.
