APES: Finding & Remving Nonrenewable Resources
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| show | concentration of naturally occurring solid, liquid, or gaseous material in or on the Earth's crust that can be extracted and processed into useful material at an affordable cost
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| show | Mineral Resources
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| Metallic mineral resources | show 🗑
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| show | coal, uranium, oil
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| Renewable Resources | show 🗑
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| show | Salt, gypsum, clay, sand, phosphate, water, and soil
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| show | metal yielding material that can be economically extracted at a given time
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| Undiscovered reources | show 🗑
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| show | identified resources thta can be extracted economicaly at currnet prices with current technology
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| show | identified & undiscovered resources not classified as reserves
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| show | plate tectonics, mineral formations, aerial photos, satellite images, etc
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| show | removes deep deposits
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| Surface Mining | show 🗑
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| In surface mining, ___ is stripped away as unwanted and piled into ______ | show 🗑
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| Open-pit Mining | show 🗑
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| show | Draglines scrape up underwater deposits
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| Area-Strip Mining | show 🗑
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| show | Terraces are cut, Earthmover mines a terrace at a time and dumps overburden on already mined terrace creating spoil banks
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| show | Used to extract coal, mountaintop is blown off and spoils go between mountains
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| show | 1)Gold is put into pile/HEAP 2)They let acidified cyanide drip/LEACH thru pile, 3)Solution dissolves gold, 4)Gold is retrieved thru electrolysis
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| show | Surface
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| S vs. SS Mining: More dangerous | show 🗑
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| S vs. SS Mining: alot's left in the ground | show 🗑
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| Longwall Mining | show 🗑
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| show | P: less disruptive, less wate Con: lung diseases from inhalation, dangerous, expensive
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| Room-and-pillar Method | show 🗑
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| Long-Wall Method | show 🗑
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| Mining Environmental Impacts | show 🗑
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| show | waste mineral materials
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| Benefication | show 🗑
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| tailing | show 🗑
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| show | Solid wstes, radioactive material is dug up, air, water, soil pollition, noise, safety, health hazzards
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| show | sulfur dioxide, soot, tiny particles of arsenic, cadmium, lead, etc. all are toxic
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| Mining machinery uses fossil fuels, which emits ____, causing ___ ____ because its a greenhouse gas | show 🗑
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| Use of Mined Minerals (transportation, use, discarding) | show 🗑
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| show | Mining companies can purchase public lands at the 1872 price, mind, and pay NO rent/royalties to extract except natural gas & oil
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| show | Set strict standards to prevent/control pollution, environmental degradation, require companies to pay to fix the lands, require mining companies to pay 12.5% royalty on all minerals removed
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| SMCRA 1977 stands for what? | show 🗑
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| What does SMCRA do? | show 🗑
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