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UPSC 2025: Consider the following pairs: Country — Resource-rich in I. Botswana : Diamond II. Chile : Lithium III. Indonesia: Nickel In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?
(a)Only one
(b)Only two
(c)All the three
(d)None
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (c) All the three
Botswana is one of the world’s leading diamond producers ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debswana?utm_source=openai)); Chile lies in the ‘Lithium Triangle’ and is the world’s second-largest lithium producer with vast reserves ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_lithium_production?utm_source=openai)); and Indonesia possesses the largest nickel reserves and is the top global producer ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_mining_in_Indonesia?utm_source=openai)). Hence all three pairs are correctly matched.
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