Editing Amur Oblast (section)

===Industry===
The industrial section contributes 18.3% to the total GRP.<ref name="AllRegions" /> The most important industrial sector in 2007 was manufacturing, constituting 25.7% of the industrial output. The sector is dominated by food products and beverages, which constitute 13% of industrial output. Machine building includes shipbuilding machinery, lifting and transport vehicles, mining equipment, agricultural machinery, metal assemblies and goods, electrical appliances and electrical machines and tools. The largest engineering companies in the oblast include [[OAO Svobodny Railroad Car Repair Plant]], [[OAO Blagoveshchensk October Revolution Ship Building Plant]] and [[OAO Bureya-Kran]].<ref name="AllRegions" />

Mining and quarrying amounted to 19.9% of industrial output in 2007.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baklanov |first1=Petre Y. |title=Environmental change and the social response in the Amur River Basin |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |location=Tokyo |isbn=978-4-431-55245-1 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-4-431-55245-1_1#citeas |access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref> Amur Oblast ranks sixth in Russia for gold mining, and has the largest gold reserves in the country. The largest gold mine in the region is Pioneer, part of Petropavlovsk PLC who also own the Albyn, Malomir and Pokrovskiy mines in the region. There is a large site of [[uranium mining]] and processing facilities in [[Oktyabrsky, Amur Oblast|Oktyabrsky]], near the Russia–China border.<ref name="hps2009">Shandala N, Filonova A, Titov A, Isaev D, Seregin V, Semenova V, and Metlyaev EG (2009), [http://hpschapters.org/2009AM/program/singlesession.php3?sessid=P#114 Radiation situation nearby the uranium mining facility], 54th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, July 12–16, 2009, Minneapolis, MN, USA.</ref> There are plans to develop other mineral deposits as well, such as titanium, iron, copper, nickel, apatite, etc. Total coal production amounts to 3,398 tons. As of 2007, four coal deposits are being operated by the company [[OOO Amur Coal]], and two more have been explored. In total, the oblast is estimated to have over 90 deposits of lignite and black coal, with overall reserves of 70&nbsp;billion tons. In addition, fuel extraction amounted to 2.9% of industrial output.<ref name="AllRegions" />