| B.C. Mineral Economy Sector Snapshot Summaries - 2006 |
| |
Metal
Mining |
Coal
Mining |
Industrial
Minerals |
Construction
Aggregates |
Sub Totals
Mining Sectors |
Mineral Refining
& Smelting |
Downstream
Mineral
Processing |
Exploration |
TOTALS |
Sales Values
(C$ million) |
$3,248* |
$2,105* |
$363* |
$274* |
$5,990 |
$1,200e |
$1,980f |
$344.2** |
$9,170h |
Exports
(C$ million) |
$4,990a |
$2,848a |
$700a |
$7a |
$8,545 |
$960a |
$238a |
n/a |
$9,743 |
Direct
Employment |
3,270b |
3,201b |
2,500c |
2,020c |
10,991 |
2,600e |
13,000f |
2,157g |
28,748 |
Number of
Operations |
9 |
10 |
40d |
500d |
559 |
4 |
550f |
n/a |
1,113 | |
| Please Note: Care has been taken to avoid double accounting. |
NRCan sector definitions (see under stages) |
|
References and Qualifiers |
| C$ |
= |
current Canadian dollars |
| * |
= |
NRCan surveyed data; (value of shipment definitions) |
| ** |
= |
NRCan & MEMPR survey of exploration (This figure is exploration spending.) |
| a |
= |
MEMPR estimates based on federal (NRCan, StatsCan) & provincial (BC Stats) survey data & direct company contact |
| b |
= |
NRCan & PWC Survey data |
| c |
= |
MEMPR estimates based on federal surveys (NRCan, StatsCan), in-house data, company contacts & empirical observation |
| d |
= |
Estimated from MEMPR site visits & databases and NRCan databases & knowledge |
| e |
= |
MEMPR phone survey |
| f |
= |
Values, number of operations and full time equivalent employees estimated from BC Mfg directory, federal (NRCan, StatsCan) & provincial (BC Stats) surveys & MEMPR data |
| g |
= |
MEMPR estimate based on exploration projects |
| h |
= |
Exploration value is not part of total |
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Last updated July 14, 2008 |
