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Impacts of the Mining Industry

The document discusses the effects of mining. It notes that while mining provides jobs and materials to build infrastructure, it can also negatively impact the environment, workers, and local communities. Specifically, mining releases toxic chemicals into water sources, kills animals that rely on contaminated water, and results in 15,000 miner deaths annually. Illegal mining is also common and exploitative, using over 1 million child laborers in Africa. While technology has reduced mining's environmental impact, it still contributes to issues like deforestation, water pollution, and increased global warming. Overall, the document examines both the benefits and harms of mining activities around the world.

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Topics covered

  • mining statistics,
  • deforestation,
  • sustainable practices,
  • job opportunities,
  • mining and land use,
  • environmental regulations,
  • electricity generation,
  • infrastructure development,
  • mining and local communities,
  • toxic chemicals
61 views3 pages

Impacts of the Mining Industry

The document discusses the effects of mining. It notes that while mining provides jobs and materials to build infrastructure, it can also negatively impact the environment, workers, and local communities. Specifically, mining releases toxic chemicals into water sources, kills animals that rely on contaminated water, and results in 15,000 miner deaths annually. Illegal mining is also common and exploitative, using over 1 million child laborers in Africa. While technology has reduced mining's environmental impact, it still contributes to issues like deforestation, water pollution, and increased global warming. Overall, the document examines both the benefits and harms of mining activities around the world.

Uploaded by

marcusangelogamer
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
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Topics covered

  • mining statistics,
  • deforestation,
  • sustainable practices,
  • job opportunities,
  • mining and land use,
  • environmental regulations,
  • electricity generation,
  • infrastructure development,
  • mining and local communities,
  • toxic chemicals

The MINING industry Introduction

A. What are the good and harmful effects of mining?

B. Did u know there are over 35’000 registered mining sites on the whole world?

C. Although it said that there over 35’000 registered Mining sites on the planet
right now there is actually a lot of illegal mining in the planet based on a
recent study illegal mining Is most common is sub Saharan Africa south
America and Nigeria based on recent studies that there could be over 10’000
plus illegal mining sites on the world and we don’t exactly know the exact
number of these illegal mining sites

D. the mining industry has some harmful effects on our environment because
mining releases toxic chemicals and the chemicals is release on the river
which case the river is now contaminated and filled with toxic chemicals
that people who relies on drinking on rivers get diseases like cholera,
typhoid ,dysentery , sever stomach pain, and more

E. the mining industry also have some effects on animals living on lakes and
rivers because animals also drinks water from river and lakes and the fish
and other organism who is living on the water die because they can’t
survive on contaminated waters

BODY

A. Mining also effects Miners in fact 15’000 or more miners die every year
because of poisonous gas leaks exposure of silica does while mining coal
and a because of dynamite explosions of collapse of the mine and rocks
B. Even though mining Is still bad for our environment mining technology
has become more eco-friendly and better for our environment than before
scientist plan to make mining more and more eco-friendly as they create
more eco-friendly materials
C. Even though we talked about the harmful effects of mining there is also
some good effects of mining mining creates more job opportunity for
people
The MINING industry
And mining helps the countries who relies on mining for their economy
and improving the country
D. Mining also helps us to build infrastructure and raw materials that could
help us to build infrastructure and the materials can be used on construction
and mining coal is also extremely important because it provides 36% percent
of earths electricity
E. In mining there is good effects and harmful effects another example
another harmful effect of mining is that mining is deforestation and another
example of good effects on mining is it helps making our technology better

CONCLUSION
A. And we know mining effects the surrounding body of waters and the
body of those waters turn into contaminated water and the water turns
toxic and dangerous that is why the organism who lives on the water also
dies and the people who doesn’t have access to water that relies on
drinking on those body of water
B. The mining industry have effects all over the world example in
Botswana before Botswana is a poor land locked country in Africa and
after the president focus and invest on the mining industry their country
became one of the fastest growing country in the world and they are still
growing until now Botswana has become one of the richest country on
Africa and this is why mining can have an effect on a whole country
C. In countries in Africa over 1 million child work on mines and this
is the harsh truth of mining and the minerals that the children is forced to
get the minerals and sell it to the big companies like tesla ,apple,
Samsung and more.
D. Mining also effects global warming because to extract the minerals
miners mostly use explosives that produce carbon monoxide and
machines run on fossil fuels that release CO2 which contributes to
global warming
The MINING industry
E. In the end we now know the effects of mining industry and its effects to
our economy eco system and to living organism like us and to other
animals and the dark truth of mining
Name: Marcus Angelo C.Mabborang

NAME: Marcus Angelo C. Mabborang Tr: Charlene

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