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Space mining & resources

Over View
Dangers of mining

These days technology is really popular and important in our world, it is a lawing us to mine in treacherous places like space or the deep sea. In space, we are planing on getting machines to attach to asteroids to mine all the valuable minerals on them and bring them back to earth. In the sea we have found out that there are tons of minerals on the bottom of the ocean, but we need machines that won't implode to get them.!

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MINING AND OIL

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Environmental Impact
Many great companies exist. Without any further discrepancies, the environmentally concerned companies ranging across this whole wonderful and extraordinary world. A fantastic company is called Mining watch Canada co. This is a Canada based organization that has many accomplishments under their belt. They have been around for over 15 years. For an example, they just passed a new bill updating Quebec's environmental standards. But, their main problem is helping the people of El Salvador protect their beautiful and vibrant landscape against Pacic Rim. Pacic Rim is a Canadian mining company that wants to start a new project in El Salvador. Fortunately, there are millions of members supporting this battle (even though its one of legal rights and terms.) The company is going to sue the country for 301 million dollars unless they change. No word has came out informing us of what their decision is, bit hopefully they don't let Pacic Rim mine their because the amount of damage that will be done would be outrageous..

Mining is a dangerous career that can harm the earth and have a deadly and unhealthy effect on the human body. Mining has many dangers. These dangers mainly involve coal dust, different extreme gases, and machinery. Mining is a treacherous career that requires strength and courage. There can be many failures with underground mining, the majority of the time these failures either have to do with roof collapses or machinery.! Space mining & resources Mining used to be the process of obtaining or extracting minerals from the ground using different techniques. Now we have realized that we won't be able to mine the earth forever because we will run out of minerals, so we need to nd other places to get these minerals.! Political Impacts Oil and natural gas are such valuable resources in the world that they has inuenced many political issues. Because the supply for oil is much lower than the demand; countries all want to control the oil reserves, ultimately controlling the world since everyone needs this fuel. This has since caused a lot of political issues. Though oil and natural gas are not the sole reason they Environmental Impact Even though mining is a brilliant and vital part of our society, it has many unfortunate and shocking effects. Fortunately, companies are helping and alternatives are also having a wonderful impact.!

Mining and oil. The most vital part of our daily lives. Unfortunately, this essential part of our life has certain brutal e!ects.

Dangers of mining
Although there can be many failures with underground mining there are also some dangers that you will experience while in the mine. These dangers mostly involve coal dust and gases. Coal dust comes from the coal and is a extremely explosive, dirty, and very poisonous. Coal dust is ying around at all times and anyone who breathes a Political Impacts large amount of coal dust may get a disease called pneumoconiosis or black On August 2nd 1990, Iraq troops invaded lung. Both of these diseases interfere with Kuwait thinking they could easily take over the your breathing and may eventually cause oil rich nation and control their oils. The US death. The way miners prevent these things decided to take the problem onto their own hands by supplying Kuwait with military support. ! from happening, is that miners spray powdered lime stone on all exposed An ongoing conict between Russia, Ukraine surfaces. This lessens the chance of an and the European Union is really about natural explosion. A mixture of methane and coal gases. Russia has an abundant source of this dust is especially dangerous. Methane is a natural resource and their top purchaser is the highly explosive gas that occurs naturally in European Union. However in order for the gas coal steams. Methane also comes from coal. It is harmless in small amounts, but a to reach Europe, that have to pass through mixture of ve-ten percent of methane in the Ukraine. The rst problem started in 2005 air can equal a violent explosion. Basting in when Russia accused Ukraine of diverting an underground mine may produce resources intended for the EU and using it for dangerous levels of carbon monoxide if not their own benets. ! ventilated properly. Air vents in mines normally prevent harmful gases from accumulating. A powerful fan at the surface of the mine circulates fresh air through the mine. These extremely powerful fans can help prevent large amounts of methane in the air; but the mine is required to shut down temporarily if detector shows that the methane level is to high.!

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