the mineral industry of malaysia 1998 17 1 m alaysia by john c wu s resources include antimony barite bauxite clays coal copper gold titanium iron ore lead limestone natural gas crude petroleum rare earths silica silver thorium tin tungsten and zinc over past three decades most identified kaolin had been exploited but remained largely undeveloped minable reserves at mamut mine in ranau sabah were almost depleted after 23 years mining area high grade states johor perak selangor greatly reduced 35 intensive those however still world second largest more active exploration for oil offshore sarawak terengganu 10 resulted a substantial increase proven ranked 11th 25th respectively & journal
