National production — all 40 jurisdictions

Every figure is state Sourced under Quality Standard v1.1: it carries a named source document, that document's date, a declared date basis (its own publication date, or — where a source prints no date — our retrieval date, never conflated), a resolvable URL, and the source's licence. No figure is interpolated, and none is Afrimintel-estimated. Where a source flags its own value as an estimate, the row is badged EST and that flag is the source's, not ours.

It does not assert that a figure is the newest that exists in the world, nor that two jurisdictions are comparable. Vintages differ by jurisdiction because source publication differs by jurisdiction; where two sources disagree, the divergence is printed in the row note rather than silently resolved. Where a figure covers part of a year, the period is stated and it must not be read as an annual total.

Where no figure could be read from any named document, the jurisdiction shows an honest empty with its reason — never a zero, never a plausible-looking guess. One of the 40 is in that state today.

Three government sources in the registry carry terms that bar the use this page would make of them, and are recorded Restricted: Kenya's mining cadastre (terms bar automated collection), South Africa's DMPR (reproduction permitted only where material is “not used for any financial or commercial gain”), and SODEMI in Côte d'Ivoire (data sold commercially). Not one figure on this page comes from any of them — South Africa is built entirely from US public-domain USGS material instead. A build gate (check-51) fails the deploy if a figure ever cites one of those hosts, so the restraint is enforced in code rather than remembered.

Every figure carries a source class. The USGS floor is the US public-domain baseline that covers every country. On top of it, a wave-2 primary layer adds government, central-bank and EITI figures and named-operator filings — pulling 12 jurisdictions to 2023–2025 vintages. The table tags each figure so the floor and the primaries are never silently mixed, and the summary below counts how many jurisdictions actually carry a primary versus resting on USGS alone. Depth is what survives a hostile pull; coverage alone does not.

A hard rule was applied to the primary layer: a figure was accepted only from the issuer’s own domain, a regulatory feed (SEC EDGAR, RNS), or a government/EITI source. Figures readable only on a republisher were dropped and recorded on the audit log rather than quietly used. Company and central-bank sources whose terms reserve rights are cited with attribution, not republished.

Afrimintel's Editor-in-Chief holds two positions in the Great Lakes region: Honorary Consul of Rwanda in Mauritius, and Chairman of MUA Insurance Rwanda. Neither role involves mining, mineral assets, or any company appearing in this layer, and neither carries any interest in the outcome of any record in it. They are disclosed here because this layer carries records on jurisdictions to which those positions relate, which makes them material to a reader assessing those records. Coverage and treatment of these jurisdictions are on the same terms as every other jurisdiction; the positions constrain who Afrimintel transacts with, not what it publishes. See /methodology/independence/ §7. Independence Policy §7.