Question: What is an example of economic activites conducted in communities in The Battle Mountains? 
Context: The United States Economic Census is the U.S. federal government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy.  It is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, and response is required by law.  Forms go out to nearly 4 million businesses, including large, medium and small companies representing all U.S. locations and industries.  Respondents are asked to provide a range of operational and performance data for their companies.  Trade associations, chambers of commerce, and businesses use information from the economic census for economic development, business decisions, and strategic planning purposes.  The next Economic Census will be conducted for the year ending December 2012. Battle Mountain is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lander County, Nevada, United States.  The population was 3,635 at the 2010 census.  Though it has no legal status as a municipality, it still functions as the county seat of Lander County.  Its primary economic base is gold mining and to a lesser extent, legalized gaming. Municipal disinvestment is a term in the United States which describes an urban planning process in which that a city or town or other municipal entity decides to abandon or neglect an unproductive zone.  It can happen when a municipality is in a period of economic prosperity, and it seeks to improve its communities and infrastructure, and sees that its poorest and most blighted communities are both the cheapest targets for revitalization as well as the areas with the greatest potential for improvement.  When a city is facing urban decay, and has to compromise in allocating its resources, the poorest communities are the least profitable and investing in them seems unwise from a long term perspective, and so these communities are neglected as a matter of choice.  Disenfranchised neighborhoods are slated for demolition, relocation, and eventual replacement.  According to one view, disinvestment in urban and suburban communities tends to fall strongly along racial and class lines, and intensifies and perpetuates the cycle of poverty exerted upon the space, since more affluent individuals with social mobility can leave the disenfranchised areas.  According to one view, municipal disinvestment is a direct consequence of local, state, and federal urban planning and urban renewal projects. The Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) is a policy initiative announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the Federal Conservative Party in August 2009.  The purpose of the agency is to promote economic development and prosperity while protecting national sovereignty in Northern Canada.  CanNor is situated in Iqualuit, Nunavut.  By centralizing this economic program in the Northern region of Canada, the Federal Government believes that it will contribute to increased participation by local communities and government in federal policy.  From this, CanNor is also responsible for the Northern Projects Management Office (NPMO), which serves as a review board for economic developments in Northern Canada.  As of July 2, 2014, the current President of CanNor is Dr. Janet King.  The Government of Canada is responsible for CanNor, with Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development overseeing the developments within the agency.  In various programs, CanNor promotes the growth of the economy, education, infrastructure development, and culture in Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.  CanNor was created from the policy initiative "Northern Strategy," developed to exercise sovereignty, promote social and economic development, protecting the heritage surrounding Native peoples in the Arctic region, as well as asserting continual governance. A depleted community is a place that lacks economic growth mechanisms, but to which people maintain social valuations and place attachment.  These are typically areas where the strength of capitalistic relationships has diminished within a developed economy.  These locations are products of uneven development, which some consider an inherent feature of capitalism.  While some areas experience economic growth, depleted communities experience economic stagnation or decline and a host of associated social problems.  According to experts in the field of community economic development, depleted communities can be seen as areas that have lost much of their economic rationale as space, while retaining high attachments and social relations of place. The Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) is a member-driven Canadian organization, founded in 1999, that seeks to increase the scale and effectiveness of community economic development (CED) - helping organizations and individuals strengthen their communities and create solutions to local needs.  The CCEDNet vision is to strengthen community economic development in urban, rural, northern and Aboriginal communities across Canada, and contribute to better social, economic and environmental conditions at the local level.  CCEDNet's members are from community-based organizations, co-operatives, social enterprises, practitioners, active citizens, researchers, and other organizations from every region of Canada.  Members are located in all provinces of Canada and two territories and are engaged in a range of activities focussed on addressing the inequities born out of the mainstream economy, generally through working with those who have barriers to social and economic inclusion. The Battle Mountains or Battle Mountain Range is a mountain range in western Lander and southeastern Humboldt counties of Nevada.  The communities of Battle Mountain and Valmy lie just to the east and north respectively along Interstate 80 in the Humboldt River valley.  Nevada State Route 305 runs along the southeast side of the range from Battle Mountain toward Austin to the south. The Watchung Mountains (once called the Blue Hills) are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between 400 and high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States.  The Watchung Mountains are known for their numerous scenic vistas overlooking New York City, Newark and New Jersey skylines, as well as their isolated ecosystems containing rare plants, endangered wildlife, rich minerals, and globally imperiled trap rock glade communities.  The ridges traditionally contained the westward spread of urbanization, forming a significant geologic barrier beyond the piedmont west of the Hudson River; the town of Newark, for example, once included lands from the Hudson to the base of the mountains.  Later treaties moved the boundary to the top of the mountain, to include the springs.  The Watchungs are basalt uplifts, geologically similar to the Palisades along the Hudson river.  In many places, however, the mountains have become sinuous islands of natural landscape within the suburban sprawl covering much of contemporary northeastern New Jersey.  Parks, preserves, and numerous historical sites dot the valleys and slopes of the mountains, providing recreational and cultural activities to one of the most densely populated regions of the nation. The Sustainable Preservation Initiative (SPI) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving the world's cultural heritage by providing transformative and sustainable economic opportunities to local communities.  SPI is focused on countries in the developing world, more particularly those that are not part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as well as Mexico, Greece and Turkey.  SPI seeks to encourage and develop sustainable economic development in the communities surrounding archaeological sites by aiding in the development of locally owned businesses that maximize the spending of dollars in these communities and regions.  Some manufacturing industries are aided as well, including local artisans. SPI's projects provide a two-for-the-price-of-one benefit: they create viable economic opportunities for the local residents while saving archaeological sites for future generations to study and enjoy. The Quebec-New York Economic Summit is a quasi-annual economic summit held between the State of New York in the United States and the Province of Quebec in Canada.  The bi-annual summits were called for in the Quebec-New York Corridor Agreement, signed in 2001 by the Plattsburgh-North Country Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of Quebec.  This partnership was then embraced by the Quebec and New York State governments, creating a private-public partnership that endeavors to broaden and deepen economic connectivity between Quebec and New York, with a special focus on the bi-national corridor region from Quebec City and Montreal through Plattsburgh to Albany and New York City.  The first Quebec-New York Economic Summit was conducted in Plattsburgh, New York in 2002 and was co-hosted by New York Governor George Pataki and Quebec Premier Bernard Landry.  Subsequent summits were conducted in Montreal in 2004 and in Albany in 2004, co-hosted by Governor Pataki and Premier Jean Charest.
Answer: gold mining