Lens Metals & Mining
Unearth robust data analytics from mine to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital
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Lens Metals & Mining
Unearth robust data analytics from mine to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital
Unlock expert insights and data across key mined commodities
Analytical power of Wood Mackenzie matched by transformative power of a data analytics platform, Wood Mackenzie Lens. With over 3,330 assets encompassing mines, smelters, refineries and new projects across key mined commodities, Lens Metals & Mining allows you to identify, evaluate and screen for growth opportunities.
Features and workflows
Designed to deliver integrated cross-commodity insights to capture the most bankable opportunities and inform your growth strategy.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining:
- Discover planned and existing mines, smelting and refining facilities.
- View how each asset relates to key infrastructure within the value chain, power plants, railways, and ports.
- Analyse resource, reserve, and production costs.
- Assess profitability with crucial cost metrics (cost curves, cash costs, margins, and cash flows).
- Visualise data on key market drivers through charts, graphs, and maps to derive industry trends.
Wood Mackenzie’s Lens Metals & Mining provides data on:
Asset-level data on key mined commodities for your asset screening and analysis in a single platform:
- Copper: 480+ copper mines modelled and 600+ projects
- Gold: 600+ gold mines modelled and 300+ projects
- Lithium: 200+ lithium mines modelled
- Zinc & Lead: 370+ zinc and lead mines modelled and 400+ projects
Comprehensive market coverage with:
- Over 40 years of historical data and forecast extending over 20 years
- Commodities coverage from Copper, Nickel, Lithium, Aluminium, Coal, Lead and Zinc
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 enables a number of key workflows including:
- Strategic Planning: Analyse market fundamentals, performance, trade balances, and price drivers.
- Asset screening and analysis: Explore and assess mining assets' performance and potential, nearby infrastructure, and financial viability.
- Merger & Acquisitions: Evaluate potential targets, company profiles, and portfolio diversification opportunities.
- Competitive Intelligence: Benchmark against industry peers to improve competitive positioning.
- Supply Chain Analysis: Manage risks by analysing material flow from mines to refineries.
Why choose WoodMac's Lens Metals & Mining?
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.
Lens Metals & Mining
Data meticulously built asset-by-asset and integrated with multi-sector market analysis for a consistent, precise view across mined commodities. Accuracy matters.
2500+
Mines
470+
Smelters
360+
Metal refineries
Industry challenges
Market and geopolitical uncertainty
Market and geopolitical uncertainty
- Fluctuating global commodity market prices can delay decision-making and negatively impact your business. With Lens Metals & Mining, you can monitor price changes, mitigate risks effectively, accurately assess investment opportunities, and confidently make faster decisions.
Changing demand and supply patterns
Changing demand and supply patterns
- Consolidating data and information from multiple sources takes time and leads to missed opportunities. Data analytics capabilities in Lens Metals & Mining enable you to understand market drivers, derive immediate insights, quantify risk, and identify opportunities.
Commodities coverage
Copper
Amid a shifting market landscape, Lens Metals & Mining provides reliable and granular data to delve into copper mining asset's financial health and economics to sharpen your portfolio strategies.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Nickel
Navigating nickel supply disruptions is crucial in securing future resources. Lens Metals & Mining provides access to the expected outlook on the global trade balance of nickel imports and exports to develop strategic resourcing plans.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast.
Lead
With the growth of increasingly lead-intensive technologies, you need a platform to understand key drivers of the end-use markets. Only with Lens Metals & Mining can you assess key market drivers in seconds.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Zinc
Adapt to market developments with immediate insights and accelerate your long-term strategic plan with a transparent view of zinc material and trade flows from mine to market through Lens Metals & Mining.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Aluminium
Amid structural oversupply and pricing pressures in the aluminium market, Lens Metals & Mining deliver integrated cross-commodity insights to capture the most bankable opportunities and inform your growth strategy.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast.
Lithium
Rising production and shifting demand of lithium is creating complex market challenges. Lens Metals & Mining simplifies the complexity with intuitive data visualisations to understand expected outlook, market drivers and price forecasts.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery and Markets Forecast.
Gold
With gold prices hitting record highs, miners are enjoying the best margins in decades, enabling them to pursue growth through M&A. Lens Metals & Mining helps you discover target assets, pursue strategic alignment, mitigate risks and ensure sustainable success.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery
Coal
Coal markets face uncertainty as global demand peaks and declines, with coal's share in the power mix forecast to fall. Lens Metals & Mining helps you navigate these shifts, adapt strategies, and capture opportunities in the evolving landscape of energy transition.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast
Iron Ore
Changes in global steel production methods and fluctuations in demand and supply are leading to significant shifts. Staying up to date with these shifts is critical for making accurate decisions. Lens Metals & Mining helps you optimise sourcing strategies and capitalise on market shifts with precision.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast
Steel
Steel remains a key commodity under scrutiny due to fluctuating global demand, production shifts, trade adjustments, and the growing emphasis on sustainability. Only with Lens Metals & Mining can you assess key market drivers in seconds, turning risks into opportunities.
Now available in Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast
Lens Metals & Mining Solutions
Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery
Visualise, screen and benchmark key metal commodities with Assets Discovery.
Discover bankable opportunities for business expansion, benchmark assets to identify target areas for growth and improve competitive position.
Lens Metals & Mining Markets Forecast
Comprehensive analysis of key drivers affecting the metals market. Access detailed long-term outlooks, pricing forecasts and key insights across the metals and mining value chain.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Designed for a diverse range of professionals and organisations in the mining industry, seeking for a reliable platform to support their strategic workflows seamlessly.
This includes mine owners and operators, investment analysts, fund managers, commodity traders, commercial strategists, business development managers, supply chain and procurement managers.
At Wood Mackenzie, we collaborate closely with our partners from leading mining companies and financial institutions to develop Lens Metals & Mining, bringing you the decision intelligence that matters.
Our intuitive data analytics platform is designed to deliver integrated cross-commodity insights to capture the most bankable opportunities and inform your growth strategy.
Acquire in-depth understanding of how key mined commodities intersect and play a pivotal role in the energy value chain, integrating insights from emissions and other related sectors.
In a single platform, you can:
- Access detailed data on single or multiple assets to analyse investment opportunities globally and see which countries/regions are most active in the commodity supply and demand.
- Understand global supply, demand, trade flows, price forecasts, producers' cost drivers, and their impact from mine to market.
Lens Direct is Wood Mackenzie’s data delivery service that provides a feed connecting users to our extensive datasets, using an API. Here, you can download Wood Mackenzie’s data into your own proprietary systems and BI tools, including Excel, Power BI, Spotfire and Tableau.
Contact an expert
Our team of experts have modelled hundreds of scenarios to provide comprehensive analyses of the metals and mined commodities sectors, while integrating coverage of the entire energy value chain. Contact our experts to book a demo.
