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179 examples of Mineral in a sentence

Now, he's mentioning the mineral needs of phytoplankton.
They came from here, a mineral country.
Kirk and the crew are visiting a federation mining colony on a remote planet rich in mineral resources.
The better part of them are essentially the same, when you break them down to basic elements: Build up a base, collect credits through some kind of natural(or unnatural) mineral, build an army and defeat the opponent who has more or less the same type(s) of army/units/buildings as you.
I'll leave you with a bit of the wit from this movie; while the scientists are taking miko's pulse with the x-ray machine, they still don't know whether he's an animal, mineral, or vegetable.
And the rapid economic growth that China’s leaders must sustain in order to lift enormous numbers of people out of poverty – and thus prevent a crisis of legitimacy – places a floor under global food, energy, and mineral prices.
By implication, if nothing else, global energy, food, and mineral prices will continue to be buoyed by seemingly insatiable emerging-market demand, which commands much higher reserve prices.
Turning to Latin America, Bolivia is one of the rare mineral exporters that has managed to avoid others’ fate in the current commodity-price downturn.
Asia’s Resource ScrambleNEW DELHI – Competition for strategic natural resources – including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels – has always played a significant role in shaping the terms of the international economic and political order.
Faced with severe supply constraints, Asian economies are increasingly tapping other continents’ fossil fuels, mineral ores, and timber.
For a while, the US tried to question Brazil’s ownership by trying to force a discussion of the “internationalization” of the oceans and their mineral resources.
South Sudan’s mineral wealth could also be substantial, though no one knows because exploration has been impossible for so long.
So the time is ripe for Chile to do with lithium what it has never done before with its other mineral riches: develop a comprehensive policy aimed at building a local value-added industry.
But 13 of the latter are either dependent on oil exports (Angola, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Sudan), or mineral exports (Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Tanzania).
Natural resources are a major potential source of wealth for developing countries; in 2010, the total value of mineral and fuel exports from Asia, Africa, and South and Central America was roughly 15 times higher than the aid that they received.
Developed in close collaboration with the industry, it offers “detailed recommendations to help companies respect human rights and avoid contributing to conflict through their mineral purchasing decisions and practices.”
China will never be interested in Russia’s economic and political modernization, for it prefers Russia to remain a source of mineral and energy resources and a vast “strategic rear” in its looming challenge with the United States.
Similar stories of mineral abundance have emerged in other African countries in recent years, including in Chad, Guinea, Liberia, Mauritania, and Sudan.
On a continent where mineral wealth too often has become a curse, Botswana, under the leadership of President Festus Gontebanye Mogae, has demonstrated how natural resources can promote sustainable development and good governance.
Mogae managed to hold down inflation and attract foreign investment in order to diversify Botswana’s economy and make it less dependent on the extraction of diamonds, while simultaneously ensuring that more of the country’s mineral wealth was processed at home.
At the same time, it is important to prevent mineral wealth from causing unwarranted currency appreciation – the dreaded “Dutch disease.”
Some African countries are comparatively stable and prosperous, and the Continent possesses a youthful population that will soon top one billion people, abundant mineral reserves, and an inherent dynamism.
The Last Resource FrontierOXFORD –In the coming decade, extraction of oil, gas, and mineral ores will constitute by far the most important economic opportunity in Africa’s history.
The mineral riches of the ocean were not well understood.
Massive expansion in gas extraction and in coal and mineral mining, together with rapid population growth (for a rich country), means that energy use and emissions are set to grow in the coming decades.
The world can never run out of any mineral resources.
Although Morales campaigned on a promise to nationalize mineral resources, this has not happened yet, and, indeed, he now seems to be leaning towards partnerships with big state-owned energy companies, in the manner of Venezuela’s Pedevesa or Brazil’s Petrobras.
Ample evidence demonstrates that no country has ever been able to develop a strong and fair economy based on mineral or oil exports.
Blaming the Spanish conquerors or the economic empires of the twentieth century cannot hide the fact that huge amounts of money financed corrupt governments, inefficient bureaucracies, big and useless “development” projects such as industrial plants or mineral mills, or a wide variety of subsidies to buy off powerful interest groups.
While North Korea does not have the agricultural base that initially spurred reforms in China and Vietnam, geographical advantages like natural seaports and rich mineral resources enable it to pursue export-led growth.
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