Minerals sector now 'UK's biggest producer', says MPA

Minerals sector now 'UK's biggest producer', says MPA

18 January 2021, by Maxine Perella

The minerals sector claims to be the UK’s biggest producer by volume, producing 400 million tonnes of aggregates, industrial minerals and other mineral products in 2018.

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