Material profile: Sodium carbonate ↗
6,000 thousand metric tons · 2025 · production
Natural soda ash only. Synthetic production is excluded from country figures; these are not rankings for all soda ash.
Estimated. -- Turkey is estimated to produce synthetic soda ash; however, because the majority of soda ash production is from natural trona, Turkey—s production is included in —World total, natural.— Source checked · awaiting human verification.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · SODA ASH ↗Material profile: Sodium chloride ↗
8,300 thousand metric tons · 2025 · commodity context
Salt commodity production; does not establish chemical grade or purity.
Estimated. Source checked · awaiting human verification.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · SALT ↗Lime commodity group
Materials in this commodity group: Calcium oxide ↗ · Calcium hydroxide ↗
4,000 thousand metric tons · 2025 · commodity context
Quicklime, hydrated lime and refractory dead-burned dolomite combined; not separate output for either chemical.
Estimated. -- Only countries that produced 1 million tons or more of lime are listed separately. Source checked · awaiting human verification.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · LIME ↗Material profile: Aluminium oxide ↗
310 thousand metric dry tons · 2025 · commodity context
Refinery alumina commodity in dry tonnes; grade and purity are not specified.
Estimated. -- Calcined equivalent weights. Source checked · awaiting human verification.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · BAUXITE AND ALUMINA ↗Material profile: Barium sulfate ↗
260 thousand metric tons · 2025 · commodity context
Barite ore commodity; not precipitated or purified barium sulfate production.
Estimated. Source checked · awaiting human verification.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · BARITE ↗