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Cobalt

Cobalt is on NATO's December 11, 2024 list of 12 defence-critical raw materials and is important for superalloys, batteries, and defense applications.

COMMON_NAME: Cobalt

Latest source snapshot

Mar 27, 2026, 07:15 AM

Latest observed year

2025

Stored snapshots

Trace this material Back to materials

Market price

Cobalt benchmark

n/a

Feed pending

Daily changeNo daily change

Percent changen/a

SourceLME or specialist benchmark feed

As ofn/a

Cobalt can be tracked with exchange and benchmark sources, but production-grade price feeds are usually licensed.

Visible flow rows

Highest-value normalized public trade rows currently linked to this material.

Stored snapshots

Source snapshots available for provenance and freshness inspection.

Commodity mappings

Code mappings currently attached to this material across tracing layers.

Strategic risk assessment

Civil relevance, defense exposure, and disruption sensitivity

high risk

Supply concentration riskelevated

Trade disruption sensitivity1 active event in the current watchlist

A disruption could constrain qualified supply, slow downstream manufacturing, and increase reliance on a smaller number of producers or processors.

System identifiers

Primary codeWITS_PRODUCT OresMtls

Material slugcobalt

Aliases1

Layer coverage3

Civil uses

Primary industrial demand

Superalloys
batteries
aerospace engines
defense systems

Defense applications

Defense and strategic systems

Cobalt is central to high-temperature defense alloys and selected military battery chemistries.

jet engine and turbine superalloys
missile and aerospace hot-section components
naval and air platform batteries
hard metals and wear-resistant coatings

Active disruptions

Current event context

1 active

Indonesian nickel output tightness during maintenance window

PRODUCTION CUT | HIGH | active

Maintenance outages and ore tightness reduced near-term Indonesian nickel availability.

Red Sea logistics delays for battery material corridors

LOGISTICS DISRUPTION | HIGH | historical

Shipping reroutes increased transit times and freight friction for battery-material cargoes moving toward Europe.

Observed public trade flows

Latest normalized trade rows

Reporter	Partner	Year	Source	Value
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	736.3K EUR_MILLION
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	528.5K EUR_MILLION
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	366.5K EUR_MILLION
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	344K EUR_MILLION
Netherlands	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	287.1K EUR_MILLION
Netherlands	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	262K EUR_MILLION
France	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	242.6K EUR_MILLION

Trace code coverage

Commodity mappings for verified trace construction

These code mappings define which trade rows can participate in raw, refined, and downstream verified flow tracing for this material.

Commodity-code membership is managed in the hidden admin workspace. Public users can inspect this material page, while admin users can update the trace mapping set.

Material intelligencecritical mineral

Cobalt

Cobalt is on NATO's December 11, 2024 list of 12 defence-critical raw materials and is important for superalloys, batteries, and defense applications.

COMMON_NAME: Cobalt

Latest source snapshot

Mar 27, 2026, 07:15 AM

Latest observed year

2025

Stored snapshots

Trace this material Back to materials

Market price

Cobalt benchmark

n/a

Feed pending

Daily changeNo daily change

Percent changen/a

SourceLME or specialist benchmark feed

As ofn/a

Cobalt can be tracked with exchange and benchmark sources, but production-grade price feeds are usually licensed.

Visible flow rows

Highest-value normalized public trade rows currently linked to this material.

Stored snapshots

Source snapshots available for provenance and freshness inspection.

Commodity mappings

Code mappings currently attached to this material across tracing layers.

Strategic risk assessment

Civil relevance, defense exposure, and disruption sensitivity

high risk

Supply concentration riskelevated

Trade disruption sensitivity1 active event in the current watchlist

A disruption could constrain qualified supply, slow downstream manufacturing, and increase reliance on a smaller number of producers or processors.

System identifiers

Primary codeWITS_PRODUCT OresMtls

Material slugcobalt

Aliases1

Layer coverage3

Civil uses

Primary industrial demand

Superalloys
batteries
aerospace engines
defense systems

Defense applications

Defense and strategic systems

Cobalt is central to high-temperature defense alloys and selected military battery chemistries.

jet engine and turbine superalloys
missile and aerospace hot-section components
naval and air platform batteries
hard metals and wear-resistant coatings

Active disruptions

Current event context

1 active

Indonesian nickel output tightness during maintenance window

PRODUCTION CUT | HIGH | active

Maintenance outages and ore tightness reduced near-term Indonesian nickel availability.

Red Sea logistics delays for battery material corridors

LOGISTICS DISRUPTION | HIGH | historical

Shipping reroutes increased transit times and freight friction for battery-material cargoes moving toward Europe.

Observed public trade flows

Latest normalized trade rows

Reporter	Partner	Year	Source	Value
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	736.3K EUR_MILLION
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	528.5K EUR_MILLION
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	366.5K EUR_MILLION
Germany	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	344K EUR_MILLION
Netherlands	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	287.1K EUR_MILLION
Netherlands	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	262K EUR_MILLION
France	World	2025	Eurostat Statistics API	242.6K EUR_MILLION

Trace code coverage

Commodity mappings for verified trace construction

These code mappings define which trade rows can participate in raw, refined, and downstream verified flow tracing for this material.

Commodity-code membership is managed in the hidden admin workspace. Public users can inspect this material page, while admin users can update the trace mapping set.

Cobalt

Civil relevance, defense exposure, and disruption sensitivity

Primary industrial demand

Defense and strategic systems

Current event context

Latest normalized trade rows

Commodity mappings for verified trace construction

Cobalt

Civil relevance, defense exposure, and disruption sensitivity

Primary industrial demand

Defense and strategic systems

Current event context

Latest normalized trade rows

Commodity mappings for verified trace construction

Linked source snapshots

Linked source snapshots