Fugu and Yulin smelters
Most of the world's magnesium is made here.
- Material
- Magnesium
- Stage
- Processing plant
- Place
- Yulin, Shaanxi, China
- Coordinates
- 39.03° N, 111.07° E (approximate)
Seen from orbit
- Heat
- 0 of the last 7 days and 0 of the last 30 had furnace-hot pixels within 6 km (NASA FIRMS).
Signals show activity, not output. They are measured automatically and can be affected by weather, terrain and fires.
Facts
- Centre of China's magnesium smelting (the Pidgeon process)
- China made about 950 of the world's 1,100 kt of primary magnesium in 2025 (USGS)