the leading minera mining countries?
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The United States and Russia, of course, just because of their size.  Smaller countries that are major mineral producers are Namibia, Congo (the big one, not the little one), South Africa, Australia, Mexico, and Peru
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China.  They are funding a couple countries in South America
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the top four countries are\n\ncanada\nmexico\nsaudi arabia\nvenezuela\n\nin no particular order
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1. Russia\n2. China\nand the list goes on and on. Check out this site for the complete list.
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G'day Green day luva 91,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nGeoscience Australia has a number of maps of Australia showing mineral resources.The South Australian Department of Primary Industries and Resources has maps available but for a fee.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference.\n\nRegards
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See silver mines in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Silver_mines
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China is one of the world's major mineral-producing countries. Coal is the most abundant mineral (China ranks first in coal production); high-quality, easily mined coal is found throughout the country, but especially in the north and northeast. There are also extensive iron-ore deposits; the largest mines are at Anshan and Benxi, in Liaoning province. Oil fields discovered in the 1960s and after made China a net exporter, and by the early 1990s, China was the world's fifth-ranked oil producer. Growing domestic demand beginning in the mid-1990s, however, has forced the nation to import increasing quantities of petroleum. Offshore exploration has become important to meeting domestic needs; massive deposits off the coasts are believed to exceed all the world's known oil reserves.\n\nChina's leading export minerals are tungsten, antimony, tin, magnesium, molybdenum, mercury, manganese, barite, and salt. China is among the world's four top producers of antimony, magnesium, tin, tungsten, and zinc, and ranks second (after the United States) in the production of salt, sixth in gold, and eighth in lead ore. There are large deposits of uranium in the northwest, especially in Xinjiang; there are also mines in Jiangxi and Guangdong provs. Alumina is found in many parts of the country; China is one of world's largest producers of aluminum. There are also deposits of vanadium, magnetite, copper, fluorite, nickel, asbestos, phosphate rock, pyrite, and sulfur.\n\nExports:$583.1 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)\nExports - commodities:machinery and equipment, plastics, optical and medical equipment, iron and steel\nExports - partners:US 22.8%, Hong Kong 16.2%, Japan 12.4%, South Korea 4.4%, Germany 4% (2004)\nImports:$552.4 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)\nImports - commodities:machinery and equipment, oil and mineral fuels, plastics, optical and medical equipment, organic chemicals, iron and steel\nImports - partners:Japan 16.1%, Taiwan 10.9%, South Korea 10.4%, US 7.7%, Hong Kong 7.4%, Germany 5.4% (2004)\n\nGood luck!
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Heavily Indebted Poor Countries--is now classified as third world. -check the link for the list http://www.imf.org/external/np/hipc/index.asp\n\nDeveloping and Industrial countries are 33 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\n\nGood Luck and Prosper...;*!*;...
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Here is a map of US mining and mineral production:\nhttp://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mapdata/\n\nHere is a USGS Geographic Information System that allows you to see the location of mineral resources around the world. Go to \nhttp://tin.er.usgs.gov/mrds/\nThen click on "Browse World" on the left side. This will open and interactive map. You can turn on the data layers and refresh the map on the right hand side of the map and you can zoom in to see the data better using the icons across the top. \n\nIf you use the icon with the i in the center you can click on the small triangles on the map and you will get a location and type of mineral resource displayed at the bottom of the page. You can also build queries, and after you have made a map that you want to keep, you can print it. \n\nOther than that you can go to the Perry-Castaneda library site, where they have thematic maps of most countries, including maps and links for mineral resources. I only found one world-wide map there for mineral resources. \nhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/thematic.html\n\nIf you are looking for minerals other than economic resources, you can go to mindat.org. At that site you can search for specific minerals of all kinds, and locations are listed. \nhttp://www.mindat.org/index.php\n\nNational Geographic has a GIS that shows either coal fields or surface geology. \nhttp://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
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almost all of the countries
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Right now australia is the number 1 choice. U better hurry before they put restrictions there also.
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Mexico, India, China, Cuba, and El Salvador. Followed closely by Canada.\n\nPS - My sourse is 4 years newer than the one below ;)
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in my opinion, \nit would be China.\n\nalthough economy there is not developed, only on developing.\nthe speed of growing is much higher than the other countries in the world\n\nin today news,\nit is reported that in last season in china, economy grew over 10% than last year.\nit is really a fast speed.\n\namazing...
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There's the mining guild, of course, if you have 60 mining.  Otherwise the mining spot in the lumby swamp has 7 coal rocks.  There's a few coals rocks in the Al Kharid mine, as far as I know.  And there's the hobgoblin mine in the wild.
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Corporación del Cobre (Codelco), the Chilean state owned copper producer, has awarded Metso Minerals (Sala) AB a contract to supply 25 metal slurry pumps for the world’s largest copper mine, El Teniente. \nLocated 80km south-east of Santiago, the mine currently produces 35.5 million tonnes/year of ore.\n\nThe Metso pumps will be installed as part of the concentrator plant expansion program. The order includes XM700, XM500 and XM350 pumps. Weighing a hefty 20 tonnes, the XM700 is the largest pump Metso Minerals have ever produced.
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PLEASE SPECIFY\nTHE REGION FIRST AND COUNTRY.
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Statistics can be misleading...if you have a country with only one factory and they build another then they just grew by 100% compared to a country with 500,000 factories who build 100,000 more which is a growth rate of 20%.\n\nGiven this info...I would say either Romania, Albania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania or Slovenia.  My money would be on Slovenia.