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Lens Metals & Mining for industrial companies

Evaluate the reliability and stability of your mined commodities supply chain in a rapidly evolving landscape.

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How secure are your supplies of business-critical metals and minerals?

Supply insecurity has become a critical strategic threat for industrial companies. Heavy reliance on a few nations for refining and processing metals including rare earths, lithium, cobalt, nickel, and aluminium exposes firms to major bottlenecks and supply shocks, while even copper faces tightening supply amid rising demand and permitting delays. 

As a business, ideally you need to secure stable supply at reasonable prices; however, you also need a strong understanding of the impact of evolving supply chain dynamics and emerging risks. 

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Forewarned is forearmed

In a world of volatility, systemic supply chain fragility and rising geopolitical uncertainty, you need clear visibility into potential risks and vulnerabilities before they become major operational issues for your business.  

To keep ahead of the problem, you need informed answers to key questions. How secure is your supply of key input materials? How can you reduce your supplier risk? What are viable alternatives to China for critical minerals? 

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How we can help

Wood Mackenzie’s Lens Metals & Mining solutions aren’t just about providing access to data; they’re designed to support your key workflows. Whether you need to inform your strategic positioning for better long-term supply chain resilience, or understand your current exposure to emerging geopolitical, environmental and sustainability risks, we have the answers.  

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Lens Metals & Mining Assets Valuations

Say goodbye to countless of hours in modelling assets. Lens Metals & Mining Assets Valuations lets you to tailor your valuation model with your own assumptions to assess key financial metrics for mining investment opportunities - at speed and at scale. 

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Screen, identify and value mining assets and companies for market value, resilience and risk.

Run valuation models with your own investment criteria and assumptions.

Conduct sensitivity analysis to see how your asset portfolio performs under various economic conditions.

Lens Metals & Mining Supply Chain

No more reactive supply chain management, just pure supply chain transparency. You can now use reliable intelligence at a market and asset level to plan capital investments, assess ESG risks and make informed decisions on your strategic decisions with Lens Metals & Mining Supply Chain.

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Gain visibility into risks across the entire value chain.

Discover alternative sourcing routes to reduce dependency risks.

Evaluate upstream dependencies, geopolitical risks and supplier financial stability that could impact your operations.

Assess the feasibility of supply chain diversification strategies.

Frequently Asked Questions

With Lens Metals & Mining Supply Chain, you gain access to comprehensive asset-to-asset material flows to understand the connections between mines, smelters, and refineries, including production and quality specifications data with potential penalty thresholds. 

You also get climate risk data at the asset level, covering extreme temperature and rainfall scenarios across three different climate trajectories, built on CMIP6 models - the gold standard in climate science and the foundation for UN climate assessments. 

Plus, you get access data and insights on country-level risk indices, including political stability and absence of violence/terrorism, government effectiveness, control of corruption, rule of law and more.  

 

We currently model over 500+ copper mines and currently include 150+ copper projects. Our data in Assets Valuations includes:  

  • Pre-tax and post-tax cashflows  
  • Net Present Value (NPV)   
  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR)  
  • Payback period  

Currently, Lens Metals & Mining Supply Chain supports Copper, with additional commodities like Lithium, Nickel, Zinc and Lead planned to come onboard throughout 2026. We're actively collaborating with our valued partners to accelerate development and expand our offerings as quickly as possible. Please connect with us to learn more.  

Customer testimonials

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"I feel confident about the data to use in my analysis offered by Wood Mackenzie."

— Operations Director, Global Producer of Industrial Metals 

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"High quality market intelligence and superb response support."

— Vice President of Commercial Sales & Marketing, Major Player in Battery Materials Supply Chain

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"I really like how Wood Mackenzie's information supports my business decisions."

— Senior Business Development Manager, Conglomerate in APAC Automotive and Construction

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"Wood Mackenzie’s insights and research are up to the point."

— Assistant Vice President, Deal Management, Global Leader in Corporate Banking

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