Among the mineral deposits of the province, tin occupies first place; copper comes second.
该省矿藏，以锡最多，铜次之。
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About 3.2 million acres already are under contract for mineral exploration in poor and sparsely settled Chubut Province, where Esquel is, near the southern tip of South America.
Companies with new deals to exploit copper and cobalt in the mineral-rich Katanga province were making hundreds of millions of dollars on stock exchanges across the world.