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  2. Lists of countries by mineral production - Wikipedia

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    List of countries by aluminium production: Bauxite [7] Australia Guinea: List of countries by bauxite production: Bismuth [8] China Vietnam: List of countries by bismuth production: Copper [9] Chile Peru: List of countries by copper production: Chromium [10] South Africa Turkey: List of countries by chromium production: Gold [11] China Australia

  3. Natural resources of India - Wikipedia

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    India's oil reserves, found in Bombay High off the coast of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and in eastern Assam meet 25% of the country's demand. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] A national level agency National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) was established in 1983 for integrated natural resources management in the country.

  4. List of commodities exchanges - Wikipedia

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    Most commodity markets around the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat, barley, sugar, maize, cotton, cocoa, coffee, milk products, pork bellies, oil, and metals). Trading includes various types of derivatives contracts based on these commodities, such as forwards , futures and options , as well as spot ...

  5. Bamboo cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Historically a dominant raw material in South and South East Asia, the global bamboo industry has significantly grown in recent decades in part because of the high sustainability of bamboo as compared to other biomass cultivation strategies, such as traditional timber forestry. For example, as of 2016, the U.S. Fiber corporation Resource Fiber ...

  6. Mining in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Coal is the primary energy needs demand of three of the four countries in Northeast Asia. Coal accounts for 77% of China, 85% of South Korea and 80% of Mongolia. [9] In Northeast Asia, coal is used for both industrial and residential. Actually, almost half of the coal is used in heating system.

  7. Primary sector of the economy - Wikipedia

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    The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. [1] [2] [3] The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in developing countries than it does in developed countries.

  8. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - Wikipedia

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    Following the success of ASEAN's series of post-ministerial conferences launched in the mid-1980s, [3] APEC started in 1989, [4] in response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific economies and the advent of regional trade blocs in other parts of the world; it aimed to establish new markets for agricultural products and raw materials ...

  9. Bamboo - Wikipedia

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    In South and South East Asia, traditional uses of bamboo the instrument include various types of woodwind instruments, such as flutes, and devices like xylophones and organs, which require resonating sections. In some traditional instruments bamboo is the primary material, while others combine bamboo with other materials such as wood and leather.