Industrial output was relatively positive throughout 2010, with year-on-year average growth of 10. 9 percent in the period January to September 2010, due largely to the mining sector where higher global demand for commodities led to higher prices.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 33, 171 of which 24, 848 or ( 74. 9 %) were in manufacturing, 10 were in mining and 7, 313 ( 22. 0 %) were in construction.

In 2005, the transportation sector made up 4. 2 % of Canada's GDP, compared to 3. 7 % for Canada's mining and oil and gas extraction industries.

Industry contributes less than 20 % of the country's GDP, with artesian diamond mining, breweries, and sawmills making up the bulk of the sector.

The mining sector in Chile is one of the pillars of Chilean economy.

The Chilean government strongly supports foreign investment in the sector and has modified its mining industry laws and regulations to create a favorable investing environment for foreigners.

The Turkish invasion inflicted a serious blow to the Cyprus economy and in particular to agriculture, tourism, mining and quarrying: 70 percent of the island ’ s wealth-producing resources were lost, the tourist industry lost 65 percent of its hotels and tourist accommodation, the industrial sector lost 46 percent, and mining and quarrying lost 56 percent of production.

At the time of its independence in 1960, DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa ; it boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans ( due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones ), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place ( behind mining ) in terms of export earnings.

The industrial sector contributed an estimated 32. 2 percent to the country's GDP in 1999, led by mining ( ferronickel, gold, and silver ) and the manufacture of goods for export to the United States.

The government of Eritrea reportedly is in the process of conducting a geological survey for use by potential investors in the mining sector.

The presence of hundreds of thousands of land mines in Eritrea, particularly along the border with Ethiopia, presents a serious impediment to future development of the mining sector.

The mining sector is small in Ethiopia.

Georgia's economy has traditionally revolved around Black Sea tourism, cultivation of citrus fruits, tea and grapes ; mining of manganese and copper ; and output of a big industrial sector producing wine, metals, machinery, chemicals, and textiles.

U. S. mining giant Newmont entered Ghana's mining sector in 2004 and intends to invest up to $ 1 billion.

In 2004, Guyana's road network was approximately long, 24 percent or 940 kilometers of which comprised primary roads in the coastal and riverine areas serving the agricultural sector, while the road to Linden serves the mining and forestry sectors.

The tertiary sector of the economy ( also known as the service sector or the service industry ) is one of the three economic sectors, the others being the secondary sector ( approximately the same as manufacturing ) and the primary sector ( agriculture, fishing, and extraction such as mining ).

U. S. investors dominated the oil and gas sector and undertook some of Indonesia's largest mining projects.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

It is almost certain that some of these, usually a trifle smaller than the honeybees, are andrenas or mining bees.

Germany is Armenia ’ s largest trading partner among EU member states, accounting for 7. 2 percent of trade ; this is due largely to mining exports.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

Other than agriculture and tourism, the main economic activity in this vast and sparsely settled area is mining.

Because of its size, the value of grazing and mining is considerable.

The Pilbara region's economy is dominated by mining and petroleum industries.

The land is predominantly flat to gently undulating tableland, although there is some hilly country, where mining is carried out.

Another example is using naturally present bacteria by the mining industry in bioleaching.

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

William Davis Miners ' Memorial Day is celebrated in coal mining towns to commemorate the deaths of miners at the hands of the coal companies.

Glace Bay is the second largest urban community in population and was the island's main coal mining centre until its last mine ceased operation in the 1980s.

It is later revealed that Tiberium was introduced to Earth by the Scrin, an extremely advanced race of Tiberium-based aliens bent on mining the planet after the Tiberium deposits have reached maturity.

The main source of the data is cleaned, transformed, cataloged and made available for use by managers and other business professionals for data mining, online analytical processing, market research and decision support ( Marakas & O ' Brien 2009 ).

poaching threatens wildlife populations ( for example, the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus is now considered extinct in the Congo due to human overpopulation and poaching ); water pollution ; deforestation ( chiefly due to land conversion to agriculture by indigenous farmers ); refugees responsible for significant deforestation, soil erosion, and wildlife poaching ; mining of minerals ( coltan — a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold ) causing environmental damage

Dynamite is mainly used in the mining, quarrying, construction, and demolition industries, and it has had some historical usage in warfare.

* 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.

Although many of the mining methods are now redundant, such as hushing and fire-setting, it is Pliny who recorded them for posterity, thereby helping us understand their importance in a modern context.

Owing to its exposure to the vagaries of the mining industry, and because of a swiftly shrinking population, similar to other rural centres, and compounded by its isolation, Broken Hill has encouraged its widespread artistic credentials and is promoting itself as a tourism destination in order to become less reliant upon mining as a source of employment.

This meant that by far the most prevalent industry in the area was deep coal mining, indeed much of the economic activity of the region was either directly related to, or reliant on this industry.

In September 2011, Leica Geosystems Mining announced an exclusive industry partnership with Locata Corporation to provide the mining industry with the world ’ s only high precision radio positioning system that is not reliant on GPS.

The economy of Caltanissetta remained heavily reliant on agriculture until the 19th century, when a heavy sulfur mining industry began.

The economy of the town and its surrounding area remains largely reliant on coal mining ; however, the industry is currently in decline, with the previous coal reserves largely exhausted.

The economy of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is mainly reliant on its harbour, the oldest and previously most important on Sakhalin, and the mining of black coal in the local area.