Consider the following pairs : Country — Resource-rich in I. Botswana — Diamond II. Chile — Lithium III. Indonesia — Nickel In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?
- A.Only one
- B.Only two
- C.All the three
- D.None
Correct answer
Explanation
The correct answer is C, All the three. Botswana is rich in diamonds, Chile in lithium and Indonesia in nickel.
Botswana is one of the world's leading producers of diamonds by value; the Jwaneng and Orapa mines, run with De Beers, turned it from one of the poorest countries at independence in 1966 into a middle-income one. Chile sits in the "lithium triangle" with Argentina and Bolivia, and the brine flats of the Salar de Atacama make it a top lithium producer, important for electric-vehicle batteries. Indonesia holds the world's largest nickel reserves, mainly on Sulawesi and Halmahera, and has banned the export of raw nickel ore to build smelting and battery industries at home.
A is wrong because all three rows are correct, not just one. B is wrong for the same reason. D is wrong because every pair is correctly matched.
Exam tip: lithium triangle = Chile, Argentina, Bolivia; nickel = Indonesia; diamonds = Botswana.
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