Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Somalia
Spain
Sri Lanka
UK
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Swaziland
South Africa
South Korea
Syria
Sao Thomé &
Principé
Tadjikistan
Tanzania
Chad
Thailand
The mineral resources are poorly researched, but it is known that there are at least plaster and
small amounts of gold, silver, tungsten, manganese, limestone, iron, chromium, nickel and
uranium. No extraction is, however, yet done.
Good assets in minerals, especially mercury, iron ore, potash and pyrite. There is also one of
the largest gold deposits. Spain is a leading producer of granite and marble.
The country's most important natural resource is precious stones and it is a leading global
supplier of rubies, sapphires and topazes. Of the other minerals recovered, only graphite and
the titanium mineral ilmenite are exported.
Britain has large reserves of oil, natural gas and coal. Natural gas and oil in the North Sea
began to be extracted in the 1960s and the 1970s. While the coal industry lost its mportance.
The number of coal mines has decreased from 170 1984 to 9 2004.
Sudan was the last three or four years before the country's division in 2011 Africa's sixth
largest oil producer.
Surinames only economically important natural resources is bauxite, which is the raw material
for aluminum.
Major natural resources, particularly in the form of forests, hydropower and iron ore. The
assets of copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver and uranium are among the largest in the EU.
Assets of coal, diamonds, gold, tin, kaolin (china clay), talc, iron ore and silica, but yet only
coal and stone are exploited.
40 percent of the world's gold, three quarters of all manganese and more than two-thirds of all
chrome. The country has the world's largest reserves of platinum, vanadium and andalusite as
well as large deposits of diamonds, coal, uranium and more. Significant gas discoveries have
been made.
South Korea has no known mineral resources except coal that is used locally.
The most important natural resources are oil, natural gas and phosphate. Extraction of marble,
gypsum and salt are also done. In addition, smaller quantities of iron ore, asphalt, copper,
uranium, bauxite, magnesium, gold and silver.
Small oil reserves and even gas, but exploitation had, at the beginning of 2012, not yet been
started. The country's other natural resources, are fertile soil, forests and fish-filled waters.
The most important natural resource is the huge water resources with rivers flowing from the
many glaciers. Only about five percent of the estimated hydropower potential is exploited.
There are also quite a lot of minerals, but mountain terrain makes, in many cases, mining
unprofitable.
Rich in minerals, such as gold mining is growing rapidly.
Rich mineral resources. In the country there except oil: gold, bauxite, tin, iron ore, uranium,
tungsten, ash, rock salt and sodium hydroxide.
Relative abundance of tin, zinc, iron and plaster. The are also deposits gold and copper. The
country is a major exporter of precious stones such as sapphires, rubies and jade.
Czech Republic There are coal, but the reserves are running out.
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad &
Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Germany
Its main natural resource is phosphate, but its importance for export earnings has declined
gradually in recent years.
Its main natural resources are fertile soil and abundance of fish in the sea.
Substantial reserves of oil and natural gas. Already in the 1940s, oil was the dominant
industry.
Phosphate, oil and natural gas, are the country's main natural resources. But it is not selfsufficient
in energy so they have to import oil and natural gas. Tunisia is one of the world's
largest phosphate producers.
Natural resources in the form of chromium, boron and many other minerals.
Large reserves of oil and natural gas. There are also plenty of mineral salts. There are probably
also occurrences of gold and platinum.
In addition to the large fish in the sea, Tuvalu have no natural resources.
Only limited amounts of natural resources, with one exception: the country's reserves of coal,
the largest in the EU. In addition there are commercial extraction of salt and potash (potassium
carbonate). Production of oil and natural gas is very small compared to what is imported.
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