Minerals in The National Economy
Higher mineral commodity prices contributed to the upturn in the country’s economic growth. The mining and mineral processing industries represented almost 1% of the GDP in 2006. The minerals sector employed about 5% (83,000) of the industrial sector total of 1.7 million miners; this did not include nearly 5,000 active informal miners.
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