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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.
Poland is a major producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead, as well as many industrial minerals, such as rock salt, sulphur, limestone, cement, lime, gypsum and mineral aggregates. The sector generally weathers economic cycles quite well, ...
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Romania is rich in mineral resources, including fossil fuels, gold, silver, non-ferrous metals and salt. The country has the largest oil and natural gas reserves in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), however, production levels are not high enough for ...
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Since 2010, Turkey has introduced several key reforms to liberalise the mining sector in an attempt to attract foreign players and support government efforts to develop the country’s significant mineral resources. Developing the mining industry ...
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The coal mining sector accounts for just over 1% of Poland’s GDP, but it remains important for the labour market as it employs over 80,000 people. Admittedly, this number is far below that of nearly 160,000 when Poland joined the European Union ...
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Turkey is a major crude steel producer, ranking third in Europe and eighth in the world in terms of 2016 output. The country was the world’s biggest scrap importer in 2016, as most of its plants have developed capacities that work on this type ...
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Mining is one of Russia’s key industries: in 2016 the “mining and quarrying” sector – a category which in Russian statistics includes oil and gas extraction, as well as mining more narrowly defined – generated 8.5% of ...
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Metal processing is the second most important sector for the Russian economy, after the oil and gas industry. It is a key supplier for the automotive, oil and gas, construction and machine-building sectors. It also generates more than 6% of the ...
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The metal processing sector is a key supplier for the automotive sector and the construction sector, which have been among the fastest-growing sectors in Hungary in the last five years. The total output of the metal processing sector stood at HUF 1 ...
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The mining and quarrying sector’s gross output, which includes the extraction of oil and natural gas, accounted for 0.6% of the total gross output of the Czech economy in 2015, significantly down from its share of 1% in 2011. At the same time, ...
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In Poland, “metallic and non-metallic minerals mining” – also known as “non-coal mining” or “other mining,” ...
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