Mining Powers Modern Life, but Can Leave Scarred Lands and Polluted Waters Behind

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By The ConversationOct 3, 2019, 3:27 pm170 pts
By Matthew Ross Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these elements are rare in Earth's crust, so mining them requires displacing vast volumes of dirt and rock. Hard rock mining – so called because it refers to excavating hard…

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