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Table 1 Value of natural resource reserves

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  2007 2008 Growth rate
milions of dollars percentage
Timber 246,626 237,063 -3.9
Energy 673,768 1,162,138 72.5
Crude oil 165,265 256,859 55.4
Natural gas 165,289 231,765 40.2
Crude bitumen 306,289 604,820 97.5
Coal 36,925 68,694 86.0
Minerals 265,292 324,096 22.2
Metallic1 217,500 136,618 -37.2
Non-metallic 47,792 187,478 292.3
Total 1,185,686 1,723,297 45.3
1. Also includes diamond mines
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 378-0005, accessed September 24, 2009.