Nitrates for fertilizer used to be the major resource mined in the desert. Today copper is mined and the major resource of the area.
Most of Mexico's silver is mined with modern equipment, including dragline excavators, mechanical screeners and roller mills.
Silver, which is still mined, but on smaller quantities.
They bought and traded with Asia using the silver and gold mined in Mexico and peru.
Copper is the main resource mined in the Atacama Desert.
it's a useful resource
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In terms of volume and revenue, oil would be the most valuable resource. It is found along the lowlands and shallow waters of the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Oil and natural gas.
No, gypsum is not a renewable resource. What is in the ground and what we've already mined is all there is.
Most of the uranium was mined by the Navajos of New Mexico and Arizona.