Analysts say Chinese firms have been negotiating with North Korea on developing its substantial mineral deposits.
Thousands of other foreign troops remain in DR Congo - motivated primarily by Congo's vast mineral deposits.
It took years to prove his supposition right that the mineral deposits were there just awaiting discovery.
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The bounty is a promising one with more than a trillion dollars of mineral deposits estimated in the country.
It will help investors to pinpoint likely mineral deposits, and officials to map flood plains suitable for rice cultivation.
Knowing where such mineral deposits are can help guide future explorations for signs that life once existed on the red planet.
The tundra of Norway's northernmost province, Finnmark, may conceal huge mineral deposits.
These proxies include coral, ice cores, mineral deposits in caves, lake and ocean sediments, as well as a few historical records like grape harvest dates.
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It reckons that the high quality of its mineral deposits and its reputation for stability leaves the miners with little option but to stay put.
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No longer satisfied with Western-defined progress, these countries have become emboldened players on the world stage, using commodities such as crude oil, natural gas and mineral deposits as weapons against perceived U.S. hegemony.
The exact value of these resources is impossible to calculate reliably, but a leading UN official described the scale of mineral deposits in the world's oceans as "staggering" with "several hundred years' worth of cobalt and nickel".
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Over the past five years, South Africa, with the richest mineral deposits in the world, has fallen 17 places in the Canada-based Fraser Institute's annual survey of mining-investment attractiveness to 54th out of 93 countries and provinces.
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His son took over, managing eventually to contain the conflict in the east of the country, where it continues to fester, fed by hunger for the area's abundant mineral deposits and by the presence of rival outsiders, notably its Rwandan neighbours.
In the dry uplands of Chile, rich mineral nitrate deposits were then found, and gradually took the place of guano in the late 19th century.
As the outlet linking this sea to the ocean became blocked, the sea began to evaporate slowly, leaving behind the mineral and saline deposits of the so-called Salado Formation.
These same sites also host large metal deposits, which could become essential mineral resources for us in the future and some of these same systems may even reveal how life first originated -- on Earth and beyond.
Its portfolio of assets includes the fabled Grasberg mineral district in Indonesia which has the single largest recoverable deposits of copper and gold.
The London-listed African Consolidated Resources insists, however, that it has the mineral rights to the 1, 800-hectare site, deemed to contain the field's richest deposits.
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