The matrix covers all 17 of the 17 conventional rare-earth elements (scandium, yttrium and the 15 lanthanides). It was built from a scan of roughly 1,000–1,500 unique pages per search bundle, narrowed to a 34-candidate shortlist of official and open quantitative reports from USGS, the European Commission's JRC, Eurostat and other independent hosts. A category is marked only where the cited source reports that element separately — a combined rare-earth-oxide table never earns a mark.
Hover or tap a cell for the exact scope and source. Grouped trade baskets such as CN 28469050 "compounds of praseodymium, neodymium or samarium" do not qualify as individual-element trade; only stand-alone codes like CN 28461000 (cerium) or CN 28469040 (lanthanum) count.
Annual commodity chapters with stand-alone Scandium and Yttrium entries: estimated mine production (Y), US import and export statistics, and end uses. Reserves explicitly not quantified.
pubs.usgs.govEU material-system flows modeled separately for neodymium, europium, terbium, dysprosium, erbium and yttrium: extraction, trade, processing and end use.
rmis.jrc.ec.europa.euEU trade statistics with stand-alone 8-digit codes for cerium compounds (28461000), lanthanum compounds (28469040) and scandium; other elements sit in grouped codes.
ec.europa.euCritical Mineral Resources of the United States, rare-earth chapter: element-by-element applications for samarium, holmium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium; production and reserves combined REO.
pubs.usgs.govByproduct metals and rare earths in light-emitting diodes: separate end-use material requirements for gadolinium among other elements.
pubs.usgs.govSupply-chain bottlenecks for low-carbon technologies: element-specific modeled supply, import reliance, processing and demand for praseodymium, neodymium and dysprosium.
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu| Element | Mine | Reserves | Trade | Refining | End use | Example source | Year | Link |
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Method: coverage matrix of free public element-specific sources for the 17 conventional rare-earth elements, compiled October 2026 from a 34-report shortlist of official and open quantitative publications (USGS, European Commission JRC, Eurostat and other independent hosts), drawn from web searches returning roughly 1,000–1,500 unique pages per bundle. A mark means the cited source reports that category separately for that element; "A" marks qualitative applications rather than tonnage. Combined rare-earth-oxide tables and grouped trade codes were not counted. One example source is shown per element; other candidate reports were cut for space.