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UPSC Prelims 2025 GS Paper 1, question 79

Topic: World and physical geography

Q79

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?

  1. (a) Only one
  2. (b) Only two
  3. (c) All the threeCorrect answer
  4. (d) None

Solution.

Answer: (c) All the three

  1. Pair I is correctly matched: Botswana (home to the Jwaneng and Orapa mines) is the world's leading producer of diamonds by value and second largest by volume.
  2. Pair II is correctly matched: Chile (Salar de Atacama) holds the world's largest commercially extractable reserves of lithium and is the second-largest producer after Australia.
  3. Pair III is correctly matched: Indonesia holds the world's largest nickel reserves and is the world's largest producer of mined nickel.