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This is a list of prices of chemical elements. Listed here are mainly average market prices for bulk trade of commodities. Listed here are mainly average market prices for bulk trade of commodities. Data on elements' abundance in Earth's crust is added for comparison.
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) is a commodities exchange established April 2008 in Ethiopia. In Proclamation 2007-550, which created the ECX, its stated objective was "to ensure the development of an efficient modern trading system" that would "protect the rights and benefits of sellers, buyers, intermediaries, and the general public."
MIDROC Ethiopia was established in 1994. In 2011 it made a profit of 1.3bn birr (US$70m). [4]MIDROC has major gold mining interests in Ethiopia [5] [6] and it is reported that MIDROC Gold Mine (a subsidiary of MIDROC Ethiopia) has paid the Ethiopian Government 100.1 million birr in royalties, the largest contribution of any mining company. [7]
Ethiopia is Africa's second biggest maize producer. [47] In 2000, Ethiopia's livestock contributed to 19% of total GDP. [48] As of 2008, some countries that import most of their food, such as Saudi Arabia, have begun planning the purchase and development of large tracts of arable land in developing countries such as Ethiopia. [49]
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of ...
Manufacturing in Ethiopia was, before 1957, dominated by cottage and handicraft industries which met most of the population's needs for manufactured goods such as clothes, ceramics, machine tools, and leather goods. Various factors – including the lack of basic infrastructure, the dearth of private and public investment, and the lack of any ...
A common unit of weight in Ethiopia was the load - a simple measure of the amount carried by a beast of burden such as a camel [1] A number of different units of measurement have been used in Ethiopia. The values of most of these units are not well defined. [2] In 1963, Ethiopia adopted the metric system. [3]
A typical older radium wristwatch dial has a radioactivity of 3–10 kBq and could expose its wearer to an annual dose of 24 millisieverts if worn continuously. [1] Another health hazard is its decay product, the radioactive gas radon , which constitutes a significant risk even at extremely low concentrations when inhaled.