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Metals and mining
Mining & Metals are the backbone of the global economy. Standing at the beginning of most value chains, the Mining & Metals industry is a critical supplier of essential inputs and a global generator of trade and employment. It also has important environmental, fiscal and social effects, and acts as a catalyst for the economic progress of numerous mining-dependent countries in the world.
The Mining & Metals industry comprises the extraction of useful minerals from the ground, including oil and gas, coal, metal ores and non-metallic minerals, and related support activities. It also includes activities lower down the supply chain, such as metal processing, manufacturing of metals and a variety of fabricated metal products, such as cutlery, metal structures, boilers, tanks and ammunition.
The metallic and non-metallic minerals mining sector (in Statistics Office data as mining and quarrying excluding coal and lignite) generated 1.4% of Poland’s GDP in 2019 and provided direct employment to 53,900 people. The main ...
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Metal processing is the third most important sector for the Russian economy, after the oil and gas industry and the agricultural sector ...
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Sold production of the coal mining sector amounted to PLN 24.6bn in 2019, corresponding to 1.1% of Poland's GDP. On average, the sector employed 79,200 people that year, which accounted for 0.7% of the total workforce. The level of ...
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There are 70 different types of minerals produced in Turkey. The country ranks 10th globally in terms of mineral diversity-holding 0.4% of the world’s metallic mineral reserves, 2.2.% of the industrial raw material reserves, 1% of ...
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Poland has had a long tradition in the metal processing industry. And, at present, it is one of the most developed industries in the country. In 2019, however, the country’s metal production volume decreased by 7.7% y/y to 35.6mn ...
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The metallic and non-metallic mineral mining sector generated 1.3% of Poland’s GDP in 2018 and provided employment to 14,960 persons. The main non-coal minerals extracted in Poland are copper, silver, zinc and lead, as well as many industrial ...
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The coal mining sector accounted for 1.1% of Poland's GDP and 0.9% of the total employment in the country in 2018. The sector's importance for the Polish economy - tremendous during the communist regime and in the first years after the start of ...
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Turkey’s complex geologic and tectonic structure ranks it among the top countries in the world in terms of mineral diversity. Excluding petroleum and coal, the country is home to 53 exploitable minerals and metals and 4,500 mineral deposits, ...
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The metal processing sector is an important contributor to Russia’s economic growth and a significant source of hard currency for the country. Russia has positioned itself as a major supplier of metals for the global market by leveraging on its ...
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Metal processing is one of Poland’s top ten industrial sectors, accounting for 0.5% of the country’s GDP and 3.9% of sold production of industry according to 2017 data. The sector employs over 60,000 people and generates 9.9% of ...
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