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  2. Lists of countries by mineral production - Wikipedia

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    Metal Largest producer Second largest producer Complete list Aluminium [6] China India List of countries by aluminium production: Bauxite [7] Australia Guinea List of countries by bauxite production

  3. Mining in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, mineral production activities are gradually concentrated in developing countries. In the past few centuries, the prices of some mineral commodities have fluctuated with the continuous improvement of mining technology and the different demand for mineral resources in the market. Minerals are widely used in all fields of society, and ...

  4. Mining in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Tin mining in Perak around 1910.. Tin mining is one of the earliest type of mining operated in Malaysia, starting in the 1820s in Perak and in 1824 in Selangor. [1] The development of mining industries in Malaysia attracted many Chinese immigrants who came to the state in 18th and 19th centuries to work and develop the mines. [2]

  5. List of countries by copper production - Wikipedia

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    Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012. This is a list of countries by mined copper production.. Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production.

  6. Geology of China - Wikipedia

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    China has many different types of mineral resources and has global significant reserves of many of them. [2] They are frequently in the global top 10 countries for mineral reserves or production. [46] [2] They produce more than 90% of the global rare earth element ore. [47]

  7. Uranium mining by country - Wikipedia

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    Uranium is produced from the Somair mine at Arlit, 63.4% owned by Orano Cycle and 36.66% by Niger state mining assets company Société du patrimoine des mines du Niger, known as SOPAMIN, and has produced nearly 68,000 tonnes (149,900,000 pounds) of uranium since operations began in 1971; and the Akouta mine at Akokan, owned by Orano Cycle (34% ...

  8. Mining - Wikipedia

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    It can be argued that what is referred to as the 'mining industry' is actually two sectors, one specializing in exploration for new resources and the other in mining those resources. The exploration sector is typically made up of individuals and small mineral resource companies, called "juniors", which are dependent on venture capital. The ...

  9. Natural resources of India - Wikipedia

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    India's major mineral resources include coal (4th largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese ore (7th largest reserve in the world as in 2013), lithium ore (6th largest reserve in the world as in 2023), [6] mica, bauxite (5th largest reserve in the world as in 2013), [7] chromite, natural gas, diamonds, limestone and thorium.