The State of Mineral Raw Materials Industry for Building Materials in the USA in 2015

The state of the mining sector of the USA building materials industry in 2015 is presented. Data on the change in production volume, number of enterprises, labor productivity, prices for mineral products, import and export of products are given. The conclusion about the trend aimed at enlarging the business-units in the industry, as well as improving the efficiency of production at small and average quarries due to the use of self-propelled and modular processing complexes is made

G.R. BUTKEVICH, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Research and Design Institute for Extraction, Transportation and Processing of Mineral Raw Materials in Building Materials Industry (1, Volokolamskoe Highway, Moscow, 125080, Russian Federation)

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