According to figures of Eti Maden (mining) Enterprises, Turkey earned 442 million USD from its boron exports as of October 31.

This figure was only 325 million USD in the same period of 2007.

Around 72 percent of world boron reserves is in Turkey.

"Our exports were up 36 percent in the first ten months of this year, over the same period of last year," Orhan Yilmaz, the director general of the enterprises, told AA correspondent.

Yilmaz set the year-end export target of their enterprise as 550 million USD. He also said that Turkey exported boron worth 405 million USD in 2007.

The director general also said that Turkey aimed to earn 1 billion USD from boron exports in 2012.

Yilmaz said that 63 countries were buying boron from Turkey, and enumerated some of those countries as the United States, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameron, Canada, China, Egypt, Britain, Finland, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mali, Moldova, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Yemen, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Vietnam.


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