Examine the location distribution and factors responsible for such distribution of Engineering Goods industry around the world.

Engineering Goods industries are highly skill-oriented and they use the product of the metallurgical indus­tries as the raw materials. In fact several of the engineering industries use the products of other engineering industries to produce goods requiring still higher skills ..

Account for the spatial pattern of the Aluminum ore in the World.

Metal aluminum is obtained from bauxite. Bauxite is first converted into alumina and alumina is further processed to obtain the final metal. Due to its lightness and durability, aluminum is becoming increasingly important and is replacing copper in the field ..

Examine the factors responsible for the location of Jute industry around the World.

Jute fibre is one of the cheapest and coarsest, and its main use is as a packaging material for agricultural and industrial products.  Important products of jute are gunny bags, hessians, cordage and carpets.  As a packing material, jute is ..

Discuss the locational aspects of Natural Gas production around the World. 

Natural gas occurs along with oil in the oil fields as well as separately in the gas fields. Natural gas came to be used at large scale only after the development of an extensive pipeline network in US. Thus large ..

Account for the spatial pattern of the Copper ore in the World. 

In importance from an industrial point of view copper is next only to iron. However, it occurs in fewer locations than iron ore and the most important deposits are in North America, South America, Africa and Australia. Chile, US, Canada, ..

Give an account of the major coal mining regions around the world.

Major coal mining reasons are as follows: China China has large reserves of coal and during the last decades it has emerged as the world leader in coal mining. The deposits of Fushun mines in Man­churia have the maximum thickness ..

Explain the concept of Geographical Inertia with respect to location of Industries.

It is usually found that it is cheaper to modernise a manufactur­ing unit or to convert it to another kind of unit rather than to move it to a new site. The capital (physical capital in the form of machinery ..

What do you understand by Blood Diamonds? Critically examine the performance of Kimberley Process in limiting the number of conflict diamonds entering the market.

Some regions in Africa are rich in Diamonds. The Central African and West African countries are politically unstable where armed revolutionary group control diamond mines. They sell the rough diamonds and use the proceeds to finance their operations, purchasing arms ..