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"extractive industry" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to businesses or activities that involve the extraction of valuable resources from the earth such as mining, drilling, timbering, and natural gas production. For example, "The development of renewable energy sources has led to a decrease in reliance on the extractive industry for energy production."
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The prospect of legal challenges to extract damages from the titans of the extractive industry looks attractive, particularly as scientists get ever better at attributing extreme weather events to the heat trapped by carbon dioxide.
Farming has become an extractive industry, like mining.
For gold mining is an extractive industry that eventually exhausts the resource it exploits.
Meanwhile, agriculture, development and extractive industry continues to fragment sagebrush ecosystems.
Strip miners, Packer calls them, barons of an extractive industry with no investment beyond tomorrow.
The extractive industry payments to developing countries dwarf the amount of aid they receive.
It is the attitude of extractive industry -- get in, get rich, get out.
The province has some of the world's largest tin deposits, and the leading extractive industry is tin mining.
Still, as oil-rich states have shown, it's possible for even a relatively small extractive industry to cause severe damage.
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The FTSE 100, a London-based stock market index dominated by extractive-industry shares, had its worst week since August 2011, with a 6.3% fall.
There is a well-established link between global terrorism and the regions of the world the Middle East, Nigeria most susceptible to extractive-industry corruption.
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