Kodak executives cited competitive pricing and less consumer demand for its digital cameras as well as increases in commodity prices, particularly silver and petroleum, as among factors for the weak quarter.
Gross margins fell to 23.5percentt, from 26.1percentt, hurt by higher manufacturing and materials costs, including increased costs of silver, paper and petroleum-based goods.
The company primarily produces copper concentrates, containing copper, gold and silver, as well as petroleum and coal.
It is also a major producer of iron ore, coal, petroleum, gold, copper, silver, lead, and a number of ferroalloys.
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The DRC is rich in minerals, including cobalt, copper, petroleum, diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, tin, coal and coltan (used in computers and cell phones).
Petroleum is important, and sulfur, gold, silver, iron, copper, and zinc are mined.
After agriculture and animal husbandry, the leading industries of the Rio Grande area are mining (petroleum, natural gas, coal, uranium ore, silver, lead, gold, potash, and gypsum) and recreation (national and state parks and monuments, dude ranches, rafting, fishing and hunting, and summer and winter resorts).
Romania enjoys a considerable wealth of natural resources: fertile land for agriculture; pastures for livestock; forests that provide hard and soft woods; petroleum reserves; metals, including gold and silver in the Apuseni Mountains; numerous rivers that supply hydroelectricity; and a Black Sea coastline that is the site of both ports and resorts.
India's minister of petroleum and natural gas presented a silver filigree peacock statuary in a Plexiglas box, which Perry displayed in his office.
