word | | Natural resources |
oil
 map | Ukraine | iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land |
| oil deposits | Georgia | forests, hydropower, manganese deposits, iron ore, copper, minor coal and oil deposits; coastal climate and soils allow for important tea and citrus growth |
oil shale
map | Estonia | oil shale, peat, phosphorite, clay, limestone, sand, dolomite, arable land, sea mud |
| other deposits of nepheline | Kyrgyzstan | abundant hydropower; significant deposits of gold and rare earth metals; locally exploitable coal, oil, and natural gas; other deposits of nepheline, mercury, bismuth, lead, and zinc |
| other minerals | Antarctica | iron ore, chromium, copper, gold, nickel, platinum and other minerals, and coal and hydrocarbons have been found in small uncommercial quantities; none presently exploited; krill, finfish, and crab have been taken by commercial fisheries |
| other minerals | Venezuela | petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, bauxite, other minerals, hydropower, diamonds |
| outstanding deepwater harbor | Hong Kong | outstanding deepwater harbor, feldspar |
| palm oil | Cote d'Ivoire | petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, gold, nickel, tantalum, silica sand, clay, cocoa beans, coffee, palm oil, hydropower |
pearls
map | Bahrain | oil, associated and nonassociated natural gas, fish, pearls |
peat
map | Burundi | nickel, uranium, rare earth oxides, peat, cobalt, copper, platinum, vanadium, arable land, hydropower, niobium, tantalum, gold, tin, tungsten, kaolin, limestone |
peat
map | Estonia | oil shale, peat, phosphorite, clay, limestone, sand, dolomite, arable land, sea mud |
peat
map | Ireland | natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, dolomite |
peat
map | Latvia | peat, limestone, dolomite, amber, hydropower, wood, arable land |
peat
map | Lithuania | peat, arable land, amber |
peat
map | Netherlands | natural gas, petroleum, peat, limestone, salt, sand and gravel, arable land |
| peat deposits | Belarus | forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay |
| peoples are only beginning to address | 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 Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and China) pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address |
| perlite | 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 |
petroleum
map | Afghanistan | natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones |
petroleum
map | Albania | petroleum, natural gas, coal, bauxite, chromite, copper, iron ore, nickel, salt, timber, hydropower |
petroleum
map | Algeria | petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, uranium, lead, zinc |
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