Rare Earth Minerals (tons, base price $21,000) is extractable strategic minerals: small volumes but critical for electronics, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
Market behaviour
Supply for Rare Earth Minerals comes from real plant capacity: owned sectors produce up to what their capacity can make, sell into the clearing market, and only sold units count toward the D/S ratio and the price below. A sector that has not finished building, or that is mothballed, contributes nothing here even if its nameplate revenue implies it should. See Running a Corporation under the Plants System for how capacity is built and sold.
Prices blend 50% global + 25% national (country-aggregate) + 25% regional (state), drifting toward equilibrium at 6% per turn (95% closed in one game year). Raw D/S remains visible for diagnosis; price and margin math use the same raw ratio up to 3x, then a softened effective pressure tail beyond that.
The price shown here does two jobs. It sets sector profit margins, computed separately at three tiers (global, national, local/state), then blended at 50/25/25 by default, with tariff pressure shifting weight from the global leg to the national leg (local stays fixed at 25%). It also scales sector revenue directly through price realization: a producer's realized revenue moves with the lagged price of what it sells (shortage rewards sellers with more top-line revenue, not just margin points; a glut bleeds revenue even at a tolerable margin). See Commodities for the full pricing mechanics, price realization, and margin formula.
Because Rare Earth Minerals is an extractable resource, per-state output is capped by state resource capacity. The live distribution below shows each country's current capacity alongside supply and demand.
Who supplies it
Sectors that produce Rare Earth Minerals as output, with per-revenue supply rates:
- & Mining: 27% of sector revenue
Who demands it
Sectors that consume Rare Earth Minerals as an input, with per-revenue demand rates:
- Technology: 14% of sector revenue
- Telecommunications: 9% of sector revenue
- Manufacturing: 8% of sector revenue
- Automobiles: 8% of sector revenue
- Defense: 5% of sector revenue
- Energy: 4% of sector revenue
- Construction: 4% of sector revenue
Live distribution
Per-country totals below are pulled live from the current turn's market snapshot. Countries with positive net are exporters on balance; negative nets are importers.