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| especially in some countries of Eastern Europe | World | the rapid depletion of nonrenewable mineral resources, the depletion of forest areas and wetlands, the extinction of animal and plant species, and the deterioration in air and water quality (especially in some countries of Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and China) pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address |
| extensive natural gas reserves | Pakistan | land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone |
feldspar
 map | Angola | petroleum, diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, copper, feldspar, gold, bauxite, uranium |
feldspar
map | France | metropolitan France: coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber, fish
French Guiana: gold deposits, petroleum, kaolin, niobium, tantalum, clay |
feldspar
map | Hong Kong | outstanding deepwater harbor, feldspar |
feldspar
map | Italy | coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, arable land |
feldspar
map | Sweden | iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower |
feldspar
map | Turkey | coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower |
| fertile agricultural land | South Sudan | hydropower, fertile agricultural land, gold, diamonds, petroleum, hardwoods, limestone, iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver |
| fertile plains of the pampas | Argentina | fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium |
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