As of 2025, bauxite had the largest reserves in the world out of the different base metals, amounting to metric tons. By comparison, copper, which had the second largest reserves of the base metals, had a distant ** metric tons of global reserves at the said time.
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US Geological Survey. (February 6, 2026). Reserves of base metals worldwide in 2025, by commodity (in 1,000 metric tons) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 22, 2026, from /statistics/1619720/base-metals-reserves-volume-worldwide/
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