Sentence examples for mining which accounts from inspiring English sources

However, growth last year was hit by a drop in manufacturing and a slowdown in mining, which accounts for about 15% of GDP.

But gold mining, which accounts for a large share of the value of mine exports, has declined as mines have become tapped out, and protests have stalled a major new gold-mining project, known as Conga, in the Cajamarca region.

For example, in underground mining (which accounts for about 60percentt of world coal production), conventional mining methods leave behind large pillars of coal to support the overlying rocks and recover only about half of the coal present.

With surface mining, which accounts for rough half of all current projects, bitumen is removed from the sand by washing the mixture with hot water heated with natural gas.

Currently the country is dependent on copper mining, which accounts for about 80% of foreign exchange earnings and only 6% of total revenues (African Dev. Bak, 2013).

"That's a lot of mercury that you're just letting go!" Another key issue was the biggest source of mercury pollution, artisanal and small-scale gold mining, which accounts for more than a third of global emissions.

The Cananaea copper mine, which accounts for 3percentt of the world's copper production, was put up for sale last year at nearly $1 billion.

A local trade union leader confirmed that work at the mine, which accounts for up to 10% of the former Soviet republic's economic output, resumed on Sunday after a short strike.

Gains for the miners were driven by rising metal prices, in particular copper which hit a 15 month high following a strike vote at Chile's Chuquicamata mine which accounts for around 4% of the world's production of the metal.

In addition to the financial costs due to lost output and repairs at the mine, which accounts for about 10% of Brazil's iron ore exports, BHP and Vale are expected to face steep fines as well as lawsuits at a time when iron ore prices are at their lowest point in a decade.

Thick and ultra-thick coal seams are main coal seams for high production rate and high efficiency in Chinese coal mines, which accounts for 44%% of the total minable coal reserve.