Economy
Historically, most of the area was for the most characterized by heavy industry since the age of industrialisation in the late 19th and early 20th century. Except carbon, it also contains a number of other minable resources (methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc). Resources of coal to a depth to 1000 meters - about 70 billion tons, the conditions for the extraction - good.
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