At the same time, extraction sectors like mining and energy production grew just 1.7% from 7.1% in 2010.

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Congress included a few favored ones you might not think of as manufacturing--mining, oil extraction and engineering.

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He has shared the latest extraction data with no fewer than 16 mining companies.

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Count 'em up: Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, as well as industries like forestry, mining, agriculture and energy extraction.

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The Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hard rock Mining Industry Act takes on depletion allowances for mineral extraction based industries.

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It has put in place a rehabilitation program that aims to reshape the dunes and bring the forest to its pre-mining state by putting the indigenous plants back into the ground after the extraction process.

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Last week, a press release from big names like Larry Page, Ross Perot and James Cameron about combining space exploration with resource extraction made it all but obvious that somebody was going to announce some very ambitious plans surrounding asteroid mining.

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