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Turkey's most important minerals are chromite, bauxite, and copper. The country also exploits deposits of other minerals such as iron, manganese, lead, zinc, antimony, asbestos, pyrites, sulfur, Mercury, and manganese. Mining contributed slightly under 2 percent of GDP in 1992, but the subsector provides the raw material for such key manufacturing industries as iron and steel, aluminum, cement, and fertilizers. Turkey exports a variety of minerals, the most important of which are blister copper, chrome, and boron products. Minerals accounted for an average of about 2 percent of export earnings in the mid-1990s. The public sector dominates mining, accounting for about 75 percent of sales. Etibank, set up in 1935 to develop Turkey's Natural Resources, manages most of the state's mineral interests, particularly bauxite, boron minerals, chromite, and copper.

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all throughout the country there are a lot of natural resources. perhaps the most interesting one is boron which is found in west Anatolia.

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There are 8 major natural resources in Turkey. The natural resources are antimony, coal, chromium, mercury, cooper, borate, sulphur and iron ore.

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coal iron and so on

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Turkey's main economic resource is Oil.

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