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Show Rich Country From Africa comes all but a small j percentage of the world's diamonds j and almost half its gold. Large quantities of iron ore and bauxite I have been found, some of it. as in ; Sierra Leone, near the coast. On the Gold Coast is the world's largest manganese mine, and Africa is a leading supplier of this material. I Southern Rhodesia is the world's largest producer of chrome ore and the second largest source of asbestos. as-bestos. Nigeria alone produced an amount of tin in 1942 almost equal to the requirements of Great Britain, and. with deposits in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urandi, the continent con-tinent as a whole could become a major producer of that metal. Africa produces almost all the world's cobalt co-balt and uranium, and about half its vanadium. North Africa, economically economi-cally a part of Europe rather than of Africa, is Europe's chief supplier of phosphate rock. Molybdenum is found in Morocco, platinum in Ethiopia Ethi-opia and South Africa, and titanium ores in West Africa. |