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- Mining_in_Japan abstract "Mining in Japan is minimal because Japan possesses very few mining resources. Japanese mining was a rapidly declining industry in the 1980s. Domestic coal production shrank from a peak of 55 million tons in 1960 to slightly more than 16 million tons in 1985, while coal imports grew to nearly 91 million tons in 1987. Domestic coal mining companies faced cheap coal imports and high production costs, which caused them chronic deficits in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, Japan's approximately 1 million tons of coal reserves were mostly hard coal used for coking. Most of the coal Japan consumed is used to produce electric power.Oil wells have been drilled off the west coast of Honshū and Japan has oil concessions in North Sakhalin. Iron is scarce outside of Hokkaidō and northwest Honshū, and iron pyrite has been discovered in Honshū, Shikoku and Karafuto. A modest quantity of copper and gold is mined around Honshū, Hokkaidō and Karafuto.Japanese coal is found at the extreme ends of the country, in Hokkaidō and Kyūshū, which have, respectively, 45 and 40 percent of the country's coal deposits. Kyūshū's coal is generally of poor quality and hard to extract, but the proximity of the Kyūshū mines to ports facilitates transportation. In Hokkaido, the coal seams are wider and can be worked mechanically, and the quality of the coal is good. Unfortunately, these mines are located well inland, making transportation difficult. In most Japanese coal mines, inclined galleries, which extended in some places to 9.71 kilometers underground, were used instead of pits. This arrangement is costly, despite the installation of moving platforms. The result is that a miner's daily output is far less than in Western Europe and the United States and domestic coal costs far more than imported coal.As the coal mining industry declined, so did the general importance of domestic mining to the whole economy. Only 0.2% of the labor force was engaged in mining operations in 1988, and the value added from mining was about 0.3% of the total for all mining and manufacturing. Domestic mining production supplies an important quantity of some nonmetals: silica sand, pyrophyllite clay, dolomite, and limestone. Domestic mines are contributing declining shares of the country's requirements for some metals: zinc, copper, and gold. Almost all of the ores used in the nation's sophisticated processing industries are imported.".
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- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Akita,_Akita.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Ashio_Copper_Mine.
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- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Coal.
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- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Coke_(fuel).
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Coking.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Copper.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Daye,_Hubei.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Dolomite.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Electric_power.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Gold.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Hokkaido.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Hokkaidō.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Honshu.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Honshū.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Import.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Inclined_gallery.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Iron_pyrite.
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- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Japan_Oil,_Gas_and_Metals_National_Corporation.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Karafuto.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Karafuto_Prefecture.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Kenjiho.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Konomai_gold_mine.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Kyushu.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Kyūshū.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Limestone.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Manchukuo.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Metal.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Metals.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Mining.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Natural_resource.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Niigata_Prefecture.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Nonmetal.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Nonmetals.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink North_Sakhalin.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Nutsu.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Open-pit_mining.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Port.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Pyrite.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Pyrophyllite_clay.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Sand_casting.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Shikoku.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Silica_sand.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Songnim.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Tayeh.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Transport.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Transportation.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Western_Europe.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLink Zinc.
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mining in Japan".
- Mining_in_Japan wikiPageWikiLinkText "coal mine".
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- Mining_in_Japan subject Category:Economy_of_Japan.
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- Mining_in_Japan comment "Mining in Japan is minimal because Japan possesses very few mining resources. Japanese mining was a rapidly declining industry in the 1980s. Domestic coal production shrank from a peak of 55 million tons in 1960 to slightly more than 16 million tons in 1985, while coal imports grew to nearly 91 million tons in 1987. Domestic coal mining companies faced cheap coal imports and high production costs, which caused them chronic deficits in the 1980s.".
- Mining_in_Japan label "Mining in Japan".
- Mining_in_Japan sameAs Pertambangan_di_Jepang.
- Mining_in_Japan sameAs 日本の鉱業.
- Mining_in_Japan sameAs Гірнича_промисловість_Японії.
- Mining_in_Japan sameAs Q4383673.
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