Mineral and raw materials and fuel and energy resources

Almost 5 thousand deposits and mineral deposits have been identified and explored in the bowels of Belarus. In general, they contain about 30 types of mineral raw materials (Table 3.11). Fuel and energy resources in Belarus are represented by oil, peat, brown coal and oil shale. The main oil and gas-bearing territory is the Belarusian […]

Water

The Republic of Belarus, according to its natural conditions, belongs to the average geographical zone of the CIS in terms of water availability. There are more than 10 thousand lakes and reservoirs in Belarus, the total volume of water in which is about 6 billion m3, and 20.8 thousand rivers with a total length of […]