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They are preparing to extract copper from one of the richest untapped deposits on earth.
By contrast, Myanmar has vast natural wealth, including untapped deposits of oil, natural gas and rare minerals.
Inmet Mining, which is based in Toronto, owns the Cobre Panama copper project, one of the world's largest remaining untapped deposits of the metal.
The Senkakus have been a source of rising tension between the regions's two biggest economies since 2012 when Japan effectively nationalised the uninhabited islands, which are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and large untapped deposits of natural gas.
While some of America's NATO allies want to do as little as possible in the effort to stabilize Afghanistan, China has its eyes on some of world's last untapped deposits of copper, iron, gold, uranium and precious gems, and is willing to take big risks in one of the most violent countries to secure them.
So far, little of the crude is derived from the Monterey Shale, whose untapped deposits are estimated at 15.4 billion barrels, or more than four times the reserves of the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, according to the United States Energy Information Administration.
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Russia's natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, revealed new details for a pipeline that would carry natural gas from Northern Russia, including a large untapped deposit in the Barents Sea, to Western Europe.
It is the world's largest known untapped deposit of the stuff, with enough ore to sustain annual production of 200m tonnes 7% of global iron-ore output for more than a quarter of a century.
Many are still upset at a 2009 deal awarding Ivanhoe Mines of Canada a 66 percent share of Oyu Tolgoi, the world's largest untapped deposit of copper and gold.
The country has vast but largely untapped mineral deposits.
Some foreign oil firms are keen to exploit untapped mineral deposits.
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