Data

Which plant, run by whom, and can it do the step

The production map answers which country. This answers which building. 27 facilities across the rare earth elements chain, each placed from a named public document, dated to that document rather than to the day it was loaded, and re-read on a schedule to confirm the document still names it.

Mine and concentratorSeparation and refiningMetal, magnet and recyclingFainter marker, older documentInclude 9 archival points

The chain, step by step

Counted over the 18 points with current or ageing evidence. The 9 archival points are excluded, because a plant last documented in 2007 is not evidence of capacity today.

Step	Producing	Capacity
Mine	9	Professional
Concentrator	0	No documented plant
Separation plant	7	Professional
Refinery	0	No documented plant
Metal and alloy	0	No documented plant
Magnet plant	2	Professional
Recycling	0	No documented plant
Processing plant, step unstated	0	No documented plant

How current this is

A facility point ages from the date on its own source document, never from the date it was loaded. Within 18 months it is current, which is one annual reporting cycle plus the lag before the next one lands. From there to 48 months it is drawn faint and labelled with its vintage. Past that it is archival and held back from the map unless you ask for it, because it is evidence that a plant was running once, not that it is running now.

Current: 5
Ageing: 13
Archival: 9
Citations checked: 27

Every facility

Facility	Step	Where	Status	As reported	Source
Mountain Pass Mine	Mine	Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, California	Operating	Feb 2026	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Mountain Pass separation plant	Separation plant	Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, California	Operating	Feb 2026	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
White Mesa Mill rare earth separation circuit	Separation plant	San Juan County, Utah, six miles south of Blanding	Operating	Feb 2026	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Independence Facility	Magnet plant	Fort Worth, Texas	Commissioning	Feb 2026	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Stillwater Facility	Magnet plant	Stillwater, Oklahoma	Commissioning	Mar 2026	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Bayan Obo Mine	Mine	Bayan Obo, Baotou, Nei Mongol	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Chavara mine	Mine	Chavara, Kollam District, Kerala	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Ganzhou Rare Earth Mining Co. Ltd.	Mine	Ganzhou, Jiangxi	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Kollam mine	Mine	Kollam, Kerala	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Manavalakurichi mine	Mine	Manavalakurichi, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Mount Weld Mine	Mine	Mount Weld, Western Australia	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Shandong Weishanhu Rare Earth Co. Ltd.	Mine	Weishan, Shandong	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Sichuan JCC Rare Earth Co. Ltd.	Mine	Mianning, Liangshan, Sichuan	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey
Baotou rare-earth smelting and separation complex	Separation plant	Baotou, Nei Mongol	Operating	Dec 2022ageing	U.S. Geological Survey

Fujian Changting Jinlong Rare Earth Co. Ltd.Changting, Longyan, FujianOperating

Ganzhou Rare Earth (Longnan) Nonferrous Metals Co. Ltd.Longnan, Ganzhou, JiangxiOperating

Guangdong Fuyuan Rare Earth New Material Co. Ltd.Pingyuan, Meizhou, GuangdongOperating

NFC Guangzhou rare-earth separation plantGuangzhou, GuangdongOperating

Kutessai II and Aktyuz-Boordu depositsKGZOperating

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What Professional adds here

Operator and ownership on every point, the capacity figure and exactly what it counts, and one line per plant on what it can and cannot do — the constraint that a tonnage figure hides. The points, their locations, their step in the chain, their status and their citations stay free at every level, because a map nobody can check is worth nothing.

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Where every point comes from

The Mineral Industry of China, 2022 — Minerals Yearbook, table 2, structure of the mineral industry — U.S. Geological Survey, 2025-03 · public domain · 9 points
Mineral operations outside the United States — U.S. Geological Survey · public domain · 5 points
MP Materials Corp., Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), 2026-02 · cited, not reproduced · 3 points
The Mineral Industry of India, 2022 — Minerals Yearbook, table 2, structure of the mineral industry — U.S. Geological Survey, 2025-03 · public domain · 3 points
USA Rare Earth, Inc., Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), 2026-03 · cited, not reproduced · 1 point
Energy Fuels Inc., Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), 2026-02 · cited, not reproduced · 1 point
Rare Earths, 2020 — Minerals Yearbook — U.S. Geological Survey, 2025-06 · public domain · 1 point
The Mineral Industry of Australia, 2022 — Minerals Yearbook, table 2, structure of the mineral industry — U.S. Geological Survey, 2025-03 · public domain · 1 point
Mineral operations outside the United States, record 2720: Plant complex at Sillamae, Estonia — U.S. Geological Survey, 2011-04 · public domain · 1 point
Mineral operations outside the United States, record 2111: Lovozerskoye deposit, Russia — U.S. Geological Survey, 2011-04 · public domain · 1 point
Mineral operations outside the United States, record 1806: Kyrgyz chemical and metallurgical plant — U.S. Geological Survey, 2011-04 · public domain · 1 point

The gap this layer is closing, stated plainly: the only global facility dataset any government publishes openly was last compiled in 2011, from survey work done in 2007. That is why most commodities here have breadth without currency, and why the points drawn by default are so much fewer than the points held. Everything current is either a company’s own filing or a national survey read by hand. Named plants still missing — Lynas’s Kalgoorlie plant, Iluka’s Eneabba refinery, Solvay’s La Rochelle lines, the projects designated under the European Critical Raw Materials Act — are missing because no document this platform can both read and redistribute states their current operating status. An official designation is not a status, and a publisher that blocks server-side readers is not worked around.