short note on minerals found in europe
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"The EU is an important producer of chromium, copper, lead, silver, and zinc. However, most metallic ores that supply the European metallic industry are imported. Only a few EU countries have active mines. They include Austria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Sweden."
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Europe possesses a wide variety of useful minerals. Some, exploited since the Bronze Age, are depleted; others have been produced and consumed only since the Industrial Revolution. Useful minerals include those that provide energy, ferrous and nonferrous metals and ferroalloys, and those that furnish materials to the chemical and building industries. Europe has a long and commendable prospecting tradition, and mining provides employment in all countries—although for smaller numbers as mechanization is applied. As in the case of North Sea gas and oil, new discoveries are still possible. But in relation to the ever-mounting requirements of its economy, Europe—Russia and Ukraine apart—is heavily dependent on mineral imports.