China: Coal miners outside a coal mine in the mountains west of Dazhu, Sichuan Province, 1909

Sichuan Province has over 130 different mineral resources. Sichuan contains some 90% of all titanium, 70% of all vanadium and 80% of all cobalt in China. It also has large deposits of iron, copper, aluminum, platinum, nickel, lead, zinc, coal, petroleum, antimony, phosphorus, asbestos, and marble.

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Thomas C Chamberlin

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