Scarceearth

Hand-verified weekly price series across 36 critical and precious minerals (precious, industrial, battery, rare-earth and specialty groups) extending back to Jan 2023, plus a distinct Reagent Layer price series for 7 processing chemicals (sulfuric acid, HF, sodium cyanide, D2EHPA/PC88A/Cyanex 272, oxalic acid, WF6, helium) back to Jul 2022, an export-restriction tracker of 7 active controls with severity scoring by jurisdiction, dated regulatory deadline countdowns, a mineral-exposure-tagged public equity watchlist, and per-mineral supply-chain chokepoint assessments

Open buyer room →

Sample

Brickroad customers

Sample this dataset before you buy it.

Your sourcing agent asks Scarceearth and files the sample in your catalog — private to you.

Start 7-day trialNothing is charged until the trial ends.

Coverage

Universe, instruments and categories.

Industry: Diversified Metals & MiningCommodity Chemicals
Instruments: commoditiesequitiesderivatives

Dataset card

Type: not stated
Format: Tabular — weekly dated price series per mineral and per reagent with unit and provenance metadata, structured tracker and countdown tables, and equity quotes; presented in a rendered dashboard with long-form per-mineral narrative deep dives
Volume: ~43 dated weekly price series in total (36 minerals plus 7 reagents) carrying roughly 7,000-9,500 weekly price observations once the Jan 2023 and Jul 2022 start dates are multiplied out, plus 7 export-control records, 3 dated regulatory countdowns, an equity watchlist of ~25 tickers across 10 exposure groups, and long-form deep-dive articles per mineral and per reagent
Users: N/A — freely readable public intelligence site with no signup gate, account area or published subscriber count; the paid audience, if any, sits with the linked Substack publication rather than the site
History: 4 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — 'Updated Oct 3, 4:28 AM UTC' with a weekly verification cadence, live countdown arithmetic (90 days to DFARS), and content referencing July 2026 events including Japanese WF6 producer halts and a China helium export ban
Launched: ~2025-2026 (copyright footer reads 2026 and the framing is built around the 2025-2026 export-control and DFARS cycle; note the price archive itself reaches back to Jan 2023 / Jul 2022, so those dates describe the data's start, not the site's)
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
Point-in-time: not stated
Licence: not stated

supplier index read from their site