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million MTs of copper, 1.4 million MTs of rare- earth minerals, and 2,700kg of gold. Although these amounts are large in absolute terms, in the global context we should recognize that we are not the largest in any category (e.g. Chile holds approximately 210 million MTs out of the world’s close to 1 trillion MTs of copper reserves).
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