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The Netherlands: Mineral Policy

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The countries the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten constitute the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands located in Western Europe is composed of 12 provinces. These provinces form the administrative layer between the national government and the local municipalities and have responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance such as extraction of near surface raw materials. The highest point of the Netherlands is the 887 m high Mount Scenery (stratovolcano, the summit lava dome of Saba, GVP 2017). The Netherlands in Europe have a surface area of 4.2·104 m2 on land and 5.7·104 m2 at sea (the neighboring exclusive economic zone of the North Sea) and a population of 17.3·106 inhabitants. The Netherlands are classed as a very densely populated country with a population density of 412 people per km2(507 if water is excluded; January 2017). The Netherlands are ranked the fourth most competitive economy in...

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  1. Civil Engineering and Technical Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Robrecht Schmitz

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  1. Agency for International Mineral Policy, Bad Fischau-Brunn, Steiermark, Austria

    Günter Tiess

  2. Kolkata, India

    Tapan Majumder

  3. The university of Dundee Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral, Dundee, UK

    Peter Cameron

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  1. Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary, Department of Earth Resources, Budapest, Hungary

    Zoltán Horváth

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Schmitz, R. (2020). The Netherlands: Mineral Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_181-1

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