AUENV120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sulfur Dioxide, Diavik Diamond Mine, Overburden
7 Mar 2018
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Mineral resources: ore needed for diamond extraction is very inefficient = need high ore = tiny amount of diamond, metallic minerals (copper, plastics (some have organic fossil fuels, not grown = usually mineral therefore it is mined. To glen h. "s slide: minerals, non-renewable are stock resources and some can be recycled some cannot, renewable and perpetual resources, both are flow resources. Plenty of dinosaurs died here: canada (one of top 5) producers of, aluminum (. 6 billion, diamonds, nickel, platinum, group metals, potash, uranium. Less copper result to heart disease: every north american need ~400 kg per lifetime (5-6 per year, help with hemoglobin, 200 kg copper in (home, 25 kg copper in (car) Statue of liberty; copper oxidizes and turns green. Mining processes: mining operations steps (4, exploration, development and extraction, processing, closure and reclamation, victoria buchard garden used to be a mining area.
