The mineral industry is the branch of industry responsible for the exploitation of minerals from soil deposits. This is achieved by mining (through underground excavations or open workings), but also by processing plants. Products of mineral industry include various building materials, such as rocks (ex. granite), but also cement, glass and ceramics.
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“What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more … a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from labor the bread it has earned.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)