extraction
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Mineral extraction projects looking for copper, lithium and more have proliferated across the Argentine Andes.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026
Jobs in utilities, oil and gas extraction as well as transportation and warehousing also saw strong increases in hours worked.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
“It’s more about greed. It’s more about wealth extraction than anything else.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Elsewhere, gains were seen in social work as well as mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, the BLS said.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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