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Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals and materials from the Earth. It provides essential resources for infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, and energy. Mining yields economic benefits like employment, business opportunities, tax revenue, and foreign exchange that support communities and national economies. It is an important industry that produces materials needed for modern life while fostering associated sectors and development.

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Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals and materials from the Earth. It provides essential resources for infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, and energy. Mining yields economic benefits like employment, business opportunities, tax revenue, and foreign exchange that support communities and national economies. It is an important industry that produces materials needed for modern life while fostering associated sectors and development.

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MINING

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from


the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the
miner.
Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil
shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel,
and clay.
Mining is required to obtain any material that cannot be grown through
agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory.
Mining in a wider sense includes extraction of any non-renewable resource such as
petroleum, natural gas, or even water.
Mining of stones and metal has been a human activity since pre-historic times.
Modern mining processes involve prospecting for ore bodies, analysis of the profit
potential of a proposed mine, extraction of the desired materials, and
final reclamation of the land after the mine is close
IMPORTANCE OF MINING
Mining is first and foremost a source of mineral commodities that all countries find
essential for maintaining and improving their standards of living.
Mined materials are needed to construct roads and hospitals, to build automobiles
and houses, to make computers and satellites, to generate electricity, and to provide
the many other goods and services that consumers enjoy.
In addition, mining is economically important to producing regions and countries.
It provides employment, dividends, and taxes that pay for hospitals, schools, and
public facilities.
The mining industry produces a trained workforce and small businesses that can
service communities and may initiate related businesses.
Mining also yields foreign exchange and accounts for a significant portion of gross
domestic product.
Mining fosters a number of associated activities, such as manufacturing of mining
equipment, provision of engineering and environmental services, and the
development of world-class universities in the fields of geology, mining
engineering, and metallurgy
Development of multi ethnic of communities
Foreign currency earnings

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