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What is mining? Mining is the process of obtaining minerals from the ground. The most common minerals that are mined are gold, diamond, phosphorus bearing rock, gravel and coal

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open-pit mine. pit of land where they mine from the surface.

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Strip mining is when you harvest minerals one strip at a time. Just cut through the ground.

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When they are harvested is called ore. You have high quality ore and low quality ore.

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Mountain-top removal is a method that involves destroying mountain top and mining.

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Overburden: Overburden is the soil on top of the target ore
Spoils: Spoils is the same soil but different placement. Spoils is the soil that is set aside once the ore is reached in the ground

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Spoils: When overburden soil is moved to a different area. Most times miners put this soil back on top after the targeted ore is reached.

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The two different kinds of mining:
-surface mining
-subsurface mining

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Mountaintop removal:
Going after coal by digging down at the mountain.

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Surface mining Is just like how it sounds! its mining on the surface of the ground.

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Different minerals require different methods of refinement such as heating or chemical application

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Different types of minerals that are mined!
-gold
-gravel
-diamond
-phosphorus
-coal

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Negative impacts of mining:
-expensive
-loss of biodiversity
-use of fossil fuels
-habitat destruction
-negative impacts of water nearby

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Tailings are impurities that were once in the ore, taken out and put into piles like spoils.

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Cyanide heap leaching is ore stacked on top of one another with cyanide that breaks down the impurities. This is called a waste slurry.

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Strip mining is huge and mines one strip at a time.