Research and Markets: South Korea Mining Report 2011

SunHerald.com reports South Korea has small reserves of antimony, gold, copper, iron ore, lead, molybdenum, silver, tin, tungsten and zinc.

The market news is quoted as saying,

The country’s domestic coal reserves have been exhausted, although it holds reasonable quantities of non-metallic minerals such as kaolin, limestone, feldspar, quartzite and mica. South Korea is one of the world’s leading steel producers and a leading producer of cadmium and slab zinc. Due to the country’s limited mineral reserves, supply has been unable to meet demand from the country’s industrial sector.

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