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diamonds & coal. Actually, it depends on the definition of "Minerals" you are referring to. In the strictest sense (geologic definition), coal is not a mineral as it is organic material. If one is using an economic defintion, one which would include coal, oil and natural gas, then natural gas and oil would outweigh the value of coal production in the Russian Federation. Additional minerals extracted in Russia of great significance include gold, copper, and silver. As a famous professor said to me on the first day of Economic Geology class many years ago, "the (then) Soviet Union contains every element in the Periodic Table in economically extractable concentrations". This is pretty much true.

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