Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 150 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 1396 Major Worldwide Mineral Resources and Producers Global Resources Resource Description and Leading Producers Magnesium compounds More than half of magnesium compounds are used in refractories with the remaining used in agricultural chemical construction environmental and industrial applications. Leading mine producers include China Turkey North Korea Russia Austria Slovakia Spain Greece Australia India and Brazil. Magnesium metal Magnesium metal is a constituent of aluminum-based alloys used in packaging transportation castings wrought products and desulfurization of iron and steel. Leading primar y producers are China Russia Israel Kazakhstan Brazil Ukraine and Serbia. Manganese Most manganese ore is used in iron manufacture and making ferroalloys for construction machiner y and transportation industries. Manganese is also used in dry-cell batteries plant fertilizers animal feed and colorants for brick. World mine producers are South Africa China Australia Gabon Brazil India Ukraine and Mexico. Mercur y Mercury use has declined as its toxicity has limited its former uses in products as varied as paints batteries and dental amalgam. It still finds uses in button-type batteries cleansers fireworks folk medicines grandfather clocks pesticides skin-lightening creams and soaps. China and Kyrgyzstan are the leading producers and Russia Slovenia Spain and Ukraine hold major reser ves. Mica Scrap and flake mica is use in joint compounds additives for oil-well drilling paints roofing and rubber products. Most sheet mica is used in parts for electronic and electrical equipment. Primary mine producers of scrap and flake mica are Russia the United States Finland South Korea France Canada Brazil India and Nor way major producers of sheet mica are India and Russia. Molybdenum The majority of molybdenum is used in iron and steel superalloys. The leading world mine producers are the United States China Chile Peru Canada Armenia Mexico Russia Iran Mongolia Uzbekistan .
