mining
... of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/e_ec.html
mining
food and beverages, fish processing, shoes and garments, salt mining, ship repair
www.exxun.com/CapeVerde/e_ec.html
mining
gold and diamond mining, logging, brewing, textiles, footwear, assembly of bicycles and motorcycles
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/e_ec.html
mining
widespread deforestation and mining threaten natural resources; air pollution from industrial and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage
www.exxun.com/Chile/b_mp.html
mining
... inflation with GDP growth coming from high copper prices, solid export earnings (particularly forestry, fishing, and mining), and growing domestic consumption. President BACHELET in 2006 established an Economic and Social Stabilization Fund ...
www.exxun.com/Chile/e_ec.html
mining
mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment ...
www.exxun.com/China/e_ec.html
mining
... of its discovery, the island was annexed and settlement began by the UK in 1888. Phosphate mining began in the 1890s. The UK transferred sovereignty to Australia in 1958. Almost two-thirds ...
www.exxun.com/ChristmasIsland/a_fg.html
mining
loss of rainforest; impact of phosphate mining
www.exxun.com/ChristmasIsland/b_mp.html
mining
Phosphate mining had been the only significant economic activity, but in December 1987 the Australian Government closed the mine. In 1991, the mine was reopened. With the support of the government, a ...
www.exxun.com/ChristmasIsland/e_ec.html
mining
... threatens wildlife populations; water pollution; deforestation; 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
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/b_mp.html
mining
mining (diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, coltan zinc), mineral processing, consumer products (including textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods and beverages), cement, commercial ship repair
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
mining
... boys are trafficked internally for agricultural and service labor and transnationally for forced labor in agriculture, mining, construction, and in the fishing industry; women and girls are trafficked to and from other ...
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/i_ti.html
mining
tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, tobacco
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/e_ec.html
mining
... The government continues to place its hope for additional revenue on the development of several international mining projects. Despite difficulties for international companies in working with the Eritrean government, a Canadian mining ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
mining
... de France or MEDEF, employers' union with 750,000 companies as members (claimed) French Guiana: conservationists; gold mining pressure groups; hunting pressure groups Guadeloupe: Christian Movement for the Liberation of Guadeloupe or KLPG ...
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
mining
... improvement include increased foreign direct investment as well as growth in the construction, banking services, and mining sectors. In addition, the reinvigorated privatization process has met with success. However, a widening trade ...
www.exxun.com/Georgia/e_ec.html
mining
mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building
www.exxun.com/Ghana/e_ec.html
mining
tourism, food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal products; mining, petroleum
www.exxun.com/Greece/e_ec.html
mining
fish processing (mainly shrimp and Greenland halibut); gold, niobium, tantalite, uranium, iron and diamond mining; handicrafts, hides and skins, small shipyards
www.exxun.com/Greenland/e_ec.html
mining
deforestation; inadequate supplies of potable water; desertification; soil contamination and erosion; overfishing, overpopulation in forest region; poor mining practices have led to environmental damage
www.exxun.com/Guinea/b_mp.html
mining
... almost half of the world's bauxite reserves and is the second-largest bauxite producer. The mining sector accounts for over 70% of exports. Long-run improvements in government fiscal arrangements, literacy ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/e_ec.html
mining
... The Guyanese economy exhibited moderate economic growth in 2001-07, based on expansion in the agricultural and mining sectors, a more favorable atmosphere for business initiatives, a more realistic exchange rate, fairly low ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/e_ec.html
mining
... purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; most trafficking appears to take place in remote mining camps in the country's interior; some women and girls are trafficked from northern Brazil ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/i_ti.html
