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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Oceans minerals

Many countries are landlocked and may not have the oceans right on their beaches. This can cause many problems for land locked countries.  Many times countries fight for minerals for resources to become more developed. The land locked get into fights with the neighboring countries that have oceans.Because oceans contain minerals so those countries that are land locked want a piece of that, which cant always turn out in a very positive way.

Occasionally countries that are rich in one resource, compromise in with a other country that has a resource that they want and don't have the resource that they are rich in. This process is called trading! Sometimes countries that are rich from their resources give money to neighboring un-developed countries.

One example of a ocean that has many country surrounding it is the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is located between Africa, Europe, the southern Ocean, and the Western Area. The total length of the Atlantic Ocean is 76.762 million sq km.  Many Minerals are found in the atlantic such as titanium, Zircon, Monazite, Tin, Iron Ore, salt. Occasionally manganese, copper, nickel, iron, and cobalt deep in the ocean. A few of these are used to make crude oil.

Another example is the Pacific ocean located between the Southern Ocean, Asia, Australia and the Western Hemisphere. Minerals that are found in the Pacific are Sodium Chloride, Bromine, and Mangnesium. Sodium Chloride (salt) is used for salt. Bromine is used for  food, dye, pharmaceutical, and photo industries. Magnesium is used for  industrial metal alloys, especially with aluminum; China has become the main site for its production. Magnesium is extracted by electrolytic process,


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