Where the raw materials actually come out of the ground, and how each one is turned from rock into something usable. Pick a commodity to read its extraction story and light up the mines that produce it; click a dot or a card for the site. Every mine here is a flagship — the one that defines its commodity, not a complete register.
No mine on file for that commodity.
From the Mines database and the extraction fields of the Elements database in Notion. Ore grades are typical mined grades, not the richest deposit anywhere, and the concentration factor is that grade over the element's crustal abundance — how far geology has to enrich it before mining pays. Coordinates are to a few kilometres: right for a world map, not for finding the gate. Basemap: Natural Earth 110m, public domain.