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What is so special about this place that it makes so much of the worlds fertiliser supply? Why can’t a different place do it?

• HWR_14 5y ago
  You can build new factories, but it takes time.
  • deepsun 5y ago
    There are almost no factories, only mines.
    • HWR_14 5y ago
      I thought Belarus imported the Ka for the fertilizer from elsewhere. Is that not the case?
      • deepsun 5y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaruskali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaruskali Corrections to my post: - 20% of world supply actually - K, not Ka
• deepsun 5y ago
  The salt mines. For analogy -- what is so special about Klondike and gold, why can't a different place do it?