From the perspective of national distribution, the world’s copper resources are mainly concentrated in Chile, the United States, Zambia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Peru. Among them, Chile is the country with the richest copper resources in the world, with proven copper metal reserves of 150 million tons, accounting for 1/4 of the world’s reserves. The United States has proven copper metal reserves of 91 million tons, ranking second in the world, and Zambia and China’s copper reserves rank third and fourth in the world respectively.
From the perspective of regional distribution, there are five regions with the richest copper reserves in the world: (1) the western foothills of the Andes Mountains in Chile and South America; (2) the Rocky and Grand Canyon regions in the western United States; (3) Congo and Zambia in Africa; (4) the Republic of Kazakhstan; (5) eastern and central Canada.
The world’s copper ore production is mainly concentrated in North America, the west coast of South America, central Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
In addition to the above-mentioned countries, some developed countries in the West also produce refined copper.
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[Title] Where are the main distribution areas of copper resources?
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