It takes 29 years to bring a copper mine online in the United States

Average time from discovery to production, years (S&P Global, 2024)

Horizontal bar chart showing average mine lead times by country, with Zambia and the United States having the longest at 34 and 29 years respectively

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Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence, 'Mine Development Times: The US in Perspective,' June 2024Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper