Last year Votorantim's caution proved a liability when it was outbid by an energetic rival in the privatisation of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, a state-owned mining and transport giant.
It gives state-owned companies a dominant role in oil, mining, electricity, transport and telecommunications, reflecting the government's mistrust of the private sector.
Men utterly dominate such beefy industries as transport and mining.
Public transport, the mining industry and banks were operating more or less normally.
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The higher the tax, the greater the burden placed on mining, manufacturing, agriculture, transport and data services.
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Those considered to be strategic sectors are the energy sector in all its forms, non-renewable natural resources, transport, hydrocarbons, mining, bio-diversity, water and other sectors that the law may determine.
One of Motsepe's sisters, Bridgette Radebe, who's married to transport minister Jeffrey Radebe, heads a mining company and is said to be among the wealthiest black women in the country.
Much of the 61% of loans for transport, communications and power may also help mining efforts.
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Mines allowed to restart would have to take measures to prevent any run-offs of mining wastes into water bodies and comply strictly storage and transport rules, he added.
Life cycle analysts add up all the global warming pollution that goes into making a certain product from the mining needed for components to the exhaust from diesel trucks used to transport waste and materials.
He believes that focusing on mining self-sustaining minerals would be more beneficial than trying to harvest and then transport helium-3.
Freight business includes transport of bulk mineral commodities, including iron ore, agricultural products, mining and industrial inputs and general freight throughout Queensland and Western Australia.
This confluence of dynamics has worked out pretty well for Zouchen-based Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Ltd. (nyse:YZC), the dominant producer back east that operates its own rail transport network connecting mines and big buyers.
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