APES: Finding & Remving Nonrenewable Resources
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| Mineral resources | show 🗑
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| show | Mineral Resources
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| show | iron, copper, aluminum
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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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| 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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| 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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| Other Resources | show 🗑
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| How to find minerals to mine for | show 🗑
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| Subsurface mining | show 🗑
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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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| show | Draglines scrape up underwater deposits
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| show | Mining in strips
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| Contour Strip Mining | show 🗑
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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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| Room-and-pillar Method | show 🗑
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| Long-Wall Method | show 🗑
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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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| Smelting produces air pollutants like ______. | show 🗑
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| show | Co2, global warming
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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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| 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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| show | "If you mine and destroy an are, you have to fix it"
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