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Turkey is the largest producer of boron ore in the world. Important boron minerals of turkey's are tincal, colemanite and ulexite. Boron minerals contain different amount of b2o3 in their structures. The important factor for industrial application of boron minerals are b2o3 content, so they can replace each other in use. This means that one boron mineral can be trade competiter the other one.
Boron reserves
In the world, Turkey, USA and Russia have the important boron mines. In terms of total reserve basis, Turkey has a share of %64, the other important country USA is %9.
Total world boron reserves on the basis of b2o3 content are 363 million tons proven.522 million tones probable and possible, as a total of 885 million tons. With a share of %64, Turkey has a total boron reserves of 563 million tons on the basis of b2o3 content.
World boron reserves(thousandtons - b2o3)
Countryproven
Reserve probable
Possible
Reservetotal
Reservepercent in total
Span.
Turkey224.000339.000563.00064389
U. S. A. 40.00040.00080.000955
Russia40.00060.000100.0001169
China27.0009.00036.000425