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Scanning through the latest edition of Mining Annual Review, one is struck, yet again, by Nature's capriciousness in its distribution of mineral deposits within the Earth's crust. Some essential commodities such as iron, copper, lead and zinc are ubiquitous in their geographical distribution; others, such as nickel and tin, are less so, and the principal aluminium ore, bauxite, although plentiful in Africa, Australia and South America, is largely absent from the major aluminium-consuming areas of North America and Europe. For some commodities localisation is extreme. Indeed, in some instances, single deposits accommodate the bulk of the global resource of a particular ...

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