Аннотация:The mineral resource sectors of BRICS countries complement each other perfectly; one of thepossible areas for their cooperation in this field is the expansion of mutual trade in mineral commodities andmetals in order to provide continuous supplies and price stability. In 2006–2018, the principal beneficiariesof such cooperation were Republic of South Africa and Brazil, which managed to sharply increase theirexports of mineral commodities. At the same time, close cooperation with these countries allowed China tobecome the largest purchaser of mineral commodities and metals in the global market, to ensure continuoussupplies and price stability, and to obtain access to mineral resources of the other countries from the organization. However, the expectations of future cooperation among BRICS countries relating to regulation of theglobal market of mineral resources were to be too high for a number of reasons.