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All over the world, something like 80% of the total in US, Japan, and Western Europe. There are huge deposits (tens of billions of tons) in the Western US, usually associated with soda ash or shale oil. That is usually recovered by solution mining. It is also made synthetically by carbonating sodium carbonate.
