mining

Engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and applicatIon of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment

Exploitation of raw materials from asteroids

Removal of human labor from the mining industry

Environmental problems from uncontrolled mining

Point in time of largest mineral production

Part of the primary sector of the economy

Organization of countries

Natural resources extracted in a conflict zone and sold to perpetuate the fighting

The apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector and a decline in other sectors