INDONESIA’S COAL PRODUCTION BOOMS WHILE MINING LAGS
May 1st, 2013
INDONESIA'S mining industry is richly endowed with natural resources. United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports stress how the country ranks among the world's leading producers of tin, copper and nickel, with sizeable reserves of other key ores such as bauxite, gold and silver. And with exports of more than 350 million tonnes of coal a year, Indonesia recently leapfrogged Australia to become the world's largest exporter of coal.According to the latest available output data from Indonesia's ministry of energy and mineral resources' directorate general of ...
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