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The Construction Materials industry consists of companies engaged in the mining, quarrying and primary processing of raw materials involved in road and building construction. The industry includes the extraction of sand, gravel, rock, clay, gneiss, granite, limestone,marble, slate, gypsum, lime, cement, concrete and bricks, as well as filtering, bleaching, crushing, cutting, sizing and other stone-processing operations. The Construction Materials industry excludes potash mining and lime mining for fertilizers, classified in Chemicals - Agricultural.