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Where does about half of the world's cork come from?
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What metal makes up about 95% of all metal produced, by weight?
Answer: Iron
Why: About 98% of all iron ore mined worldwide ends up being made into steel.
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What is the most used resource after water?
Answer: Sand
Why: Each year people use about 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel, enough for a wall 27 metres high and wide around Earth.
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What island nation was mostly strip-mined for phosphate?
Answer: Nauru
Why: With almost no farmland left, Nauru imports most of its food, mainly from Australia.
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What did Earth's coal deposits form from?
Answer: Dead plants
Why: Dense layers of ancient swamp vegetation were compressed under heat and sediment before they could decay.
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How wide a cube would all the gold ever mined make?
Answer: About 23 metres
Why: About two-thirds of all that gold has been dug up since 1950.
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Which country has led uranium mining since 2009?
Answer: Kazakhstan
Why: Almost all of it comes from in-situ leaching: a solution dissolves the uranium underground and is pumped back up.
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