# Niobium: Production

How Brazil came to supply nine-tenths of the world

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/production/

What this tab covers Who produces it and how much: world output over recent years, the top producing countries with their shares, USGS world figures for 2024 and 2025, and the largest producing companies globally and in India.

Niobium is one of the most concentrated mineral markets. Brazil produced 92% of 2024 output on an Nb2O5 basis and Canada 6%, giving an HHI of 8,580. USGS similarly puts Brazil at about 93% of world production. On that basis, output rose 32% between 2020 and 2024, most of it a jump in 2021. In niobium content, USGS gives 112,000 tonnes in both 2024 and 2025. Tilton & Guzmán list niobium among the markets where concentration gives firms the ability, at least for a time, to raise prices.

#### Niobium (Nb2O5) · WMD
 2020 94k 2021 122k 2022 118k 2023 118k 2024 123k World production, tonnes (World Mining Data 2026).

#### Top producers 2024
 Brazil 92.5% Canada 5.6% DR Congo 1.0% Russia 0.4% Rwanda 0.3% Nigeria 0.1% Ethiopia 0.1% China 0.0% Concentration: HHI 8,580, highly concentrated.

#### USGS estimate
 World, 2024 112,000 metric tons, Nb content (mine) World, 2025e 112,000 metric tons, Nb content (mine)

#### Largest producers by company, global

- **CBMM (Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineracao)**: 100,000 t niobium products (estimate) (2025)
- **CMOC Group (Niobras)**: 10,348 t niobium (2025)

#### Largest producers by company, India

India has no niobium production and imported 5.8% of world ferroniobium by value in 2024 for its steel industry (UN Comtrade); niobium is on India's 2023 critical minerals list.

## Other sections

- [Summary](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/index.md)
- [Overview](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/overview/index.md)
- [Correlation](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/correlation/index.md)
- [Extraction](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/extraction/index.md)
- [Stocks](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/stocks/index.md)
- [Cycles](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/cycles/index.md)
- [Trading](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/trading/index.md)
- [Movement](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/movement/index.md)
- [Criticality](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/criticality/index.md)
- [Characteristics](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/characteristics/index.md)
- [Emissions](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/emissions/index.md)
- [Relationships](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/niobium/links/index.md)