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Sea

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Celtic Sea

A T L A N T I C

O C E A N

Gulf of

Bothnia

Bay of Biscay

English Channel

Ligurian Sea

Tyrrhenian Sea

Adriatic Sea

Ionian Sea

Strait of Gibraltar

Black Sea

Aegean

Sea

M E D I T E R R A N E A N S E A

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54°N

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52°N

Inset C—Germany, Poland, and CzechRepublic mineral facilities (detail)

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Greenland

(DENMARK)

Jan Mayen

(NORWAY)

Sicily

(ITALY)

Sardinia

(ITALY)

Corsica(FRANCE)

Ceuta

(SPAIN)

Elba

(ITALY)

Melilla

(SPAIN)

Sea of

Marmara

White Sea

Lake Onega

LakeLadoga

 LakeVanern

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VATICAN CITY

Rhodes

(GREECE)

Sea of

Azov

Gulf of Finland Aland

Islands

(SWEDEN)

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(SWEDEN) Öland

(SWEDEN)

Bornholm

(DENMARK)

Skagerrak

Kattegat

Balearic

Sea

Balearic

Islands

(SPAIN)

Guernsey (U.K.)

Jersey (U.K.)

Irish Sea

Isle of Man (U.K.)

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(U.K.)

Faroe Islands

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30°N

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Madeira(PORTUGAL)(Inset G)

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(NORWAY)

(Inset H)

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Inset G-1—Atlantic Ocean Islandsmineral facilities (detail)(Canaries and Madeira)

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S W I T Z E 

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ANDORRA

SAN MARINO

Scale 1 : 5 000 000

KILOMETERS

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MILES

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DISC

 This map displays over 1,700 records of western Eurasia. Each record represents one colocation. Facility types include mines, oil and gmills. Common commodities of interest inclusteel, lead, nickel, petroleum, salt, silver, and z The data shown on this map and in the sources, including (1) the most recently availMineral Yearbook (Europe and Central Eurafrom the USGS Web site (http://minerals.usdata collected by the USGS minerals inforstatistical publications of individual countriecompanies, and trade journals. Data reflect the most recent published taof this publication. Additional information anfrom the country specialist (table 2). See table 1 for general information abcommodity, location and facility name, facioperating company, main investor(s), other inv

 The facilities were plotted using the coordand decimal degrees are noted in the table for rto the second. In some cases, coordinates are other administrative unit. In table 1, facility identification numbercountry, followed by commodity, and annual ca

 Facilities within the five enclosed regionthe five corresponding inset maps. The production of these maps was peProfessionals and University of Puerto Ricstudents under supervision of USGS NationMinerals Analysis Section (GMA) country spec