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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show | can be replenished within a human life span ie. sun's energy, water, and oxygen
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Nonmetallic mineral resource examples? | show 🗑
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Ore | show 🗑
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show | potential supplies of a mineral resources that are assumed to exist on the basis of geologic knowledge and theory
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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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How to find minerals to mine for | show 🗑
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show | removes deep deposits
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show | removes shallow deposits
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show | overburden, spoils
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show | Machines dig open-pits, create windy path, and mine; used for copper, iron, sand, gravel, and building stone
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Dredging | show 🗑
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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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Heap Leach Extraction Steps | show 🗑
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S vs. SS Mining: More destructive | show 🗑
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show | Subsurface
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show | Subsurface
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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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show | pillars prevent mining from collapsing, they're knocked down in the end
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show | Narrow tunnel is dug and then supported by movable pillars, pillars are removed when mining's done, earth collapses
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show | Disturbed land/habitat, accidents, health hazards, mine waste dumping, oil spills, blowouts, noise, ugliness, heat, pollutes watersheds
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Gangue | show 🗑
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Benefication | show 🗑
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tailing | show 🗑
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Impacts of Processing | show 🗑
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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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show | heat, safety & health hazards, solid & radioactive waste, thermal water pollution, noise, ugliness
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US 1872 Mining Law is what? | show 🗑
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How should we change the 1972 Mining Law? | show 🗑
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SMCRA 1977 stands for what? | show 🗑
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What does SMCRA do? | show 🗑
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