Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast
Wood Mackenzie Lens, our powerful data analytics platform, brings you a holistic view of risk and return from raw materials to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital.
Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast
Wood Mackenzie Lens, our powerful data analytics platform, brings you a holistic view of risk and return from raw materials to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital.
Simplify the complex with a single view across the energy value chain
Minimise the time spent consolidating information from disparate sources. With Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast, you can gather immediate market insights and conduct robust due diligence before entering a new market.

Features and workflows
Access to supply-demand, balances and price forecasts for metal production and consumption, scrap markets, and sector-specific demand, enabling you to identify market trends, compare outlooks, and understand market drivers.
Key featurs of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast:
- Visualise key market drivers of single or multiple commodities easily
- Compare absolute or delta values between two outlooks to understand the market drivers behind the differences
- Understand how different assumptions impact the market fundamentals
- Analyse data through multiple parameters such as status, production method, product type and more
- Extract charts, graphs and data within seconds
- Collaborate and share your views with your colleagues
Wood Mackenzie’s Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast provides data on:
- Demand, supply, trade, market balances and price forecasts across key metals and minerals, including Copper, Nickel, Lithium, Aluminium, Coal, Lead, and Zinc.
- 30-year Strategic Planning Outlook - a comprehensive view of long-term market trends, supply-demand balances, and trade implications.
- 10-year Investment Horizon Outlook- focuses on market reactions to investment cycles for business planning, origination, and development opportunities.
Quick refresh of charts & analysis via API
- Extend your Lens access by seamlessly integrating Wood Mackenzie data into your workflow with Lens Direct, our powerful API service.
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Market Forecast enables a number of key workflows including:
- Strategic Planning: Analyse market fundamentals, performance, trade balances, and price drivers.
- Operational planning: Support operational planning, forecast revenue, identify opportunities and risks.
- Supply Chain Analysis: Manage risks by analysing material flow from mines to refineries.
Why choose WoodMac's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast?
Specifically designed for your workflows: A data analytics platform made for all enterprise users to get immediate insights and foster collaboration.
Global data coverage: Meticulously built bottom-up, asset-by-asset and integrated with multi-sector market analysis for a consistent, precise view across mined commodities for robust capital investment decisions.
Integrated: An interconnected global view incorporating assets and market analysis that empower decisions.
Cross-commodity solution: An integrated cross-commodity view of how markets and assets develop across the value chain as per Wood Mackenzie’s energy transition scenarios.
Market expertise: Gain invaluable insights from a global team of industry experts with in-depth knowledge across an increasingly connected energy, chemicals, metals and mining value chain.
Seamless access to data: API service to seamlessly ingest and integrate Wood Mackenzie’s data into your proprietary systems and BI tools.
Market intelligence at your fingertips
- Unlock new perspectives on supply, demand, trade flows, and pricing for mines, smelters, and refineries, along with country-specific demand.
- Examine market balances and drivers influencing global metal prices.
- Assess the expected outlook for the global trade balance of imports and exports of ores, processed metals, and by-products.

Accelerate decision-making with rapid scenario analysis
- Access Wood Mackenzie's base case long-term forecasts through a fast and intuitive visualisation platform.
- Compare industry-leading market outlooks and authored scenarios across different time horizons.
- Derive global trade and economics insights by analysing demand and supply trends by country and region or end-use demand by sector.

Gain efficiency with precision
- Fast and efficient, with presentation-ready outputs.
- Dynamic and intuitive charting capabilities, versatile data displays, and customisable map layers.
- Interconnected view of the energy value chain for an unmatched cross-commodity perspective.

Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Our global data stands out due to our comprehensive and integrated approach to market analysis. We provide accurate market balances and price forecasts with our proprietary supply data, in-house demand research, and detailed trade information.
What truly sets us apart from the traditional approach is our interconnected data and insights from multiple sectors, including power, renewables, oil, gas, and chemicals. Our cross-sector approach provides a coordinated view of key demand drivers, resulting in a more holistic and interconnected market analysis.
- How are production costs being impacted this year?
- Which energy transition-related sector will be in demand in the next 10 and 30 years?
- How long will it take to utilise the current consumption level of a particular metal?
- Which countries are driving the difference in the market forecast?
Gain direct access to our analysts and research to stay ahead of market developments. Our industry-leading qualitative analysis, combined with an advanced data analytics, delivers unmatched data and scope across key mined commodities through Lens Metals & Mining.
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Make data-driven decisions today with Lens Metals & Mining, designed for all enterprise users to access immediate market insights and understand the market outlook in depth. Let us show you how.
