mineral wealth
Earth's buried treasure
Mineral wealth refers to the total value of extractable minerals, ores, and other geological resources in a given area—typically a country or region.
Nations rich in oil, gold, copper, or rare earth elements are said to possess great mineral wealth: The country's mineral wealth attracted foreign investment.
The term often appears in discussions of economic development, resource management, and geopolitics.
- JohannesburgSouth Africa's economic hub
- goldElement seventy-nine
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- mining rightsPermission to extract resources
- open pitSurface-level excavation site
deep shaft · Belgian Congo · blood diamonds · boom and bust · diamonds · copper · resource management · resource extraction · minerals · rare earth · underground mining · smelting · commodity markets · magnate · nationalization · uranium · iron ore · silver
- African mineralsdiamonds, cobalt, coltan, platinum, tanzanite
- African miningdiamond mining, gold mining, copper mining, De Beers, Anglo American
- Congo HistoryBelgian Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo River, atrocities
- Copperbeltcopper mining, copper mines, mining towns, Zambia, copper production
- South AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador
- geopoliticsbalance of power, bipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship
mineral wealthrenewable resources
Supplies that naturally replenish
arable land · fertile soil · water resources · human capital · marine resources
mineral wealthindustrial output
Goods produced by factories
knowledge economy · human capital · service economy · financial capital · intellectual property