Importance of Mining
Miscellanea / / August 08, 2023
The importance of mining It is relevant enough to consider that all civilizations have depended to a greater or lesser degree on this activity as old as man himself. However, its large-scale implementation, characteristic of the last decades, is a strong reason for debate in the context of its destructive capacity to pollute the environment. environment.
In technical terms, it is defined mining as one of the so-called primary economic activities, in which metallic or non-metallic elements are extracted for purposes of industrial or financial performance. The methods for collecting the minerals They involve underground or open-air actions, depending on various parameters, among which the geological ones stand out, among others. Although the exploitation of Petroleum It could be unified with the theme of mining resources, its particular importance deserves to be considered separately. Instead, solid fossil fuels are often included in the approach to mining conventional.
Most of the mineral wealth
they are located in mountainous regions; while the mountain ranges of variscius origin gather a greater proportion of mineral coal and iron, the formations of tertiary are characterized by a higher content of precious metals, lithium and other products of increasing importance in the mining activity.In the specific case of the mega mining, that is, the large-scale exploitation of a region's mineral resources, have ignited justified warning lights as a result of the repercussions for the environment that are linked to this activity. Among those variables that impact the environment, the appearance of atmospheric dust originated in the excavation, the generation of noise pollution, the emission of toxic gases from the operation of equipment and vehicles and, above all, the alteration of water, at the level of rivers, aquifers underground, wetlands and by contamination of the drains of the mine itself. Without doubting the importance of mining exploitation, numerous strategies have been proposed so that this source of job and wealth does not become a dangerous form of environmental destruction and allows a harmonious exploitation of minerals without causing disastrous consequences for multiple generations coming
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