civlab·global-materials-graph.psyverse.fun·graph

Global Materials Graph

Every important material in modern technology, the elements that go into it, and the chokepoint countries that supply them.

The modern world runs on perhaps two hundred materials. Each is mined, processed, and refined through a multi-step chain. Each step is concentrated in a small number of countries. Lithium — Australia mines it, China refines it. Gallium — China supplies 98% of pure metal. Cobalt — DRC mines it, China refines it. Global Materials Graph turns this into a single navigable map: pick a material, see its element composition, its mining geography, its refining geography, the products that depend on it, and the timeline of price and supply shocks.

For founders, this is competitive intelligence. For policymakers, this is the inventory. For everyone else, this is how to see the physical layer of the economy you live in.

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Features

What this platform promises.

01

Pick a material → see who controls supply

Country shares for mining and refining, separately.

02

Pick a country → see its leverage

All materials in which this country has > 30% share.

03

Pick a product → see its material-bill of risks

Smartphone, EV battery, solar panel — broken into criticality risks.

Modules

Modules that compose this platform.

01 · material-db

Material database

200+ materials with composition, applications, criticality.

02 · geo-supply

Geographic supply

Country-level mining and refining shares per material.

03 · chains

Process chains

Step-by-step transformation from ore to finished good.

04 · shocks

Supply shock log

Recorded events: 2010 China rare-earth ban, 2022 Indonesia nickel ban.

05 · products

Product dependencies

Which finished products fail without this material?

Data model

Material

field
type
note
id
uuid
Material id
elements
ElementShare[]
Composition by atom %
mining
CountryShare[]
Mining share by country
refining
CountryShare[]
Refining share by country
products
ProductRef[]
Products dependent on this material
criticality
0..1
Composite criticality score