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Pick a company to see where it actually produces — every country in its footprint, shaded by capacity share — overlaid with the countries whose register actions name it (severity ring + action count), plus violet arcs to the chokepoint countries its material inputs depend on. The map is a lens; the dossier and register are the source of record.
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. produces across 2 countries — 70% of mapped capacity sits in 🇯🇵 Japan (HQ 🇯🇵 Japan).
material exposures: nickel · cobalt · copper · silver · platinum-palladium · rhodium-iridium · - tellurium
1 register action name Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., issued from 1 country (top: 🇯🇵 Japan ×1) — 1 of those also sit in its production footprint (regulator ∩ producer).
Latest: 🇯🇵 Japan–United States Critical Minerals Project Cooperation Joint Fact Sheet · 2026-03-20 · 201d ago
Its 6 scored input materials trace to 3 supplier countries — 2 refine >70% in a single country. Top input chokepoint: 🇿🇦 South Africa (rhodium-iridium 83%, platinum-palladium 54%) — nearest ex-🇿🇦 rhodium-iridium producer: 🇷🇺 Russia ~7% — ~6-12mo to ramp (share-of-stage heuristic, not a sourced qualification time). (1 exposure without scored production data: - tellurium)Armed chokepoint: 🇿🇦 South Africa has itself issued 1 register action restricting the inputs it already dominates — iridium (1), rhodium (1), ruthenium (1) — max severity 4/5. This share is a demonstrated lever, not just a concentration.Latest: South Africa Precious Metals Act 37 of 2005 — s.12(2) Ministerial Export-Approval Regime for Platinum Group Metals · 2006-04-21 · 7474d ago
Substitutes & lead-time to switch: nickel → · cobalt → · copper → · silver → · platinum-palladium → · rhodium-iridium →
Overlap node: 🇯🇵 Japan sits in two of the three layers — 70% of mapped capacity · 1 action naming Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (max sev 4/5). It regulates the company inside its own borders — exposure is operational, not just trade-facing. its JP actions →
Named counterparties: this dossier names 2 firms with a source; 2 are in this corpus with a mapped footprint, and 1 of those produces in a country already on this map (🇵🇭 Philippines) — the named end of an exposure the country layers show anonymously.Nickel Asia Corporation (supplier, related party) 🇵🇭 PH ◆ · Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (customer, related party) 🇪🇸 ES ◆ = produces in a country already on this map.6 other dossiers name Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. from the other side (supplier / customer).
Reading the map: green shading = the company's production countries by capacity share, with dots at facility cities (dashed = approximate, country-level). Violet arcs = INPUT DEPENDENCIES — they run from the country that dominates world production/refining of a material the company consumes to the company's base; the % is that country's share of world supply at the named stage, NOT an import/export volume. Severity rings = countries whose register actions name the company.