Where in the world has gold mines and why some countries don't mine and process their own mines?
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THere are gold mines throughout the world. The largest mines are in Russia and So. Africa. There are many mines in the US West, and now, with the price over $700 per ounce, there is enough incentive to start digging again. \n\nThe problem is that the "easy" gold has largely been extracted already. The remaining gold is such a small proportion of the mined ore, that it's getting increasingly expensive to process.
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Come on lad, which country are you talking about yahoo answers is global? nd shouldn't you be doing your own homework, like researching this stuff up yourself!!!
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In Summary: Arctic Circle, Antarctica, Ocean Floor, Amazon Rainforest (more than just Brazil), Central Australia, Inside of a Volcano.\n\nMay I also offer: Siberia - remote heavily wooded areas in north central Russia, Sahara desert - man couldn't have set foot everywhere there\n\nAs a Joke:  How about Canada?  I hear that place hasn't been explored unless if you count exploration by polar bears and penguins.
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The gold and diamond bearing Earth of Africa influences trade also its Northern fruitful savanahs are a reason its great population of animals and beasts also attract zoos. A bounty for smugglers and hunters is Africa. It is also rich in oil, herbal medicines snd vegetation. Logging also occurs there
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What exactly is your question? I don't understand.\n\nOf course there are some US companies with subsidiaries in Switzerland and Africa, naturally, but that's surely not what you want to know.
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During the colony, Bolivia had the biggest silver mines in the world. Afterwards, Bolivia had the biggest tin mines in the world. It has been a huge source of rubber, gold, and other minerals. It has the largest iron reservoir of the hemisphere.\nThe problems is that the US and Europe have always managed to exploit them leaving nothing for the bolivians. They´d corrupt their leaders and if they did not comply, the would either kill them or overthrow them.
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There are zinc mines throughout the world, with the largest producers being Australia, Canada, China, Peru and the U.S.A. Mines in Europe include Vieille Montagne in Belgium, Tara, Galmoy and Lisheen in Ireland, and Zinkgruvan in Sweden. Zinc metal is produced using extractive metallurgy. Zinc sulfide (sphalerite) minerals are concentrated using the froth flotation method and then usually roasted using pyrometallurgy to oxidise the zinc sulfide to zinc oxide. The zinc oxide is leached in sulfuric acid and the resulting solution is purified using zinc dust. The metal is then extracted by electrowinning as cathodic deposits. Zinc cathodes can be directly cast or alloyed with aluminium.\n\nAnother process to produce zinc is flash smelting, a pyrometallurgical process. Then zinc oxide is obtained, usually producing zinc of lesser quality than the hydrometallurgical process. Zinc oxide treatment has much fewer applications, but high grade deposits have been successful in producing zinc from zinc oxides and zinc carbonates using hydrometallurgy.
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You can extract it from Phosphate rock.\n\nLarge deposits are located in China, Russia, Morocco, Florida, Idaho, Tennessee, Utah, and elsewhere.
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B. Rhine Basin.  El salvador is in South America.  Swiss Alps is too mountainous to hold industry and Oder plain I've never heard of.
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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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UK, Australia, Germany. There was some work done in South Africa, but I do not know the status now.
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Ores have been deposited over the length of geological history. Most sources of ore must be categorized as non-renewable because the exploitation is way faster than the regeneration rate.\n\nNew ore deposits are formed all the time, e.g. wherever rust carried off by water collects. It takes quite a long time to make these worth exploiting, though.\n\nIn case of riverine deposits (e.g. of gold) it is possible to maintain an equilibrium: the ancients of Kolchis used ram vleeces to collect gold dust in the rivers. As long as the mother lode continued to provide detritus to the river, the gold was collected as a renewable resource.\n\nWhich brings me to theoretical exploitation of volcanic deposits - either from lava deposits, or at the mid-Atlantic ridge. There still is an equilibrium of material subducted in subduction zones like before the Californian coast and material brought up in the Atlantic. One might talk about a renewable resource in this case.
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"The deepest mine in this region (Witwatersrand) is currently Western Deep mine, a network of tunnels which penetrates 3.5 km into the Earth's crust."\n\n\nSeveral types of mines can be found around the world. Mines that might be considered the world's deepest are either open-pit or vertical shaft mines. Vertical shaft mines hold the record for being the deepest mines in the world. Most are located in South Africa due to its abundance of diamond and gold deposits. As of 2003 the deepest mine is the East Rand mine at 3585 meters, but as technology improves and the search for natural resources continues many mines are constantly being deepened. In the next few years, the Western Deep mine will reach 5 km.\n\nMany problems arise when digging so deep into the Earth. The most obvious is the heat. For example, at 5 km the temperature reaches 70 degrees Celsius and therefore massive cooling equipment is needed to allow workers to survive at such depths. Another problem is the weight of the rock. For example, at 3.5 km the pressure of rocks above you is 9,500 tones per meter squared, or about 920 times normal atmospheric pressure. When rock is removed through mining this pressure triples in the surrounding rock. This effect coupled with the cooling of the rock causes a phenomenon known as rock bursts, which accounts for many of the 250 deaths in South African mines every year.\n\nYefim Cavalier -- 2003
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Israel actually has oil reserves. Thats where is natural resources will come from, granted its mainly Olive oil, but there is some black gold too.
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No country produces that much. The largest country that produces emeralds is Colombia at 60% followed by Zambia (15%), Brazil (10%), Russia (5%), Madagascar (3%), Zimbabwe (2%), and Pakistan and Afghanistan (together 5%)
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Different countries have claims on settlements there but no one actually owns/governs it.\nLooks like Australia, Chile, Argentina, UK, France and New Zealand claim to own sections of it.
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India is the largest consumer of Gold in the world.\nIndians generally buy gold and most of them do not sell Gold.\nThere will be fluctuations in price only when there is buying and selling. As buying is more  price is always increasing.It will never stop.