GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fish Stock, Northern Canada, Main Source

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Environment is general, broad, and much bigger. Natural resources are specific classifications of materials that occur in the environment. Resources have inherent value that is independent of human wants and needs. Value of resources is defined relative to human interests, wants, needs, culture, society, abilities. Stock resources believed to be present in unexplored areas due to potentially unfavourable conditions. Resources which have been discovered but are currently uneconomical to extract due to cost or limited technology. Different mining activities have different impacts and geographical concentrations. Expansion of mining activity in northern canada. Estimates of total land base used for mineral extraction in canada. <300000 hectares (0. 03%) in the past 150 years of mineral activity in canada. Area < the size of pei produces all canadian minerals. Approaches: geophysical, geochemical exploration, mapping, drilling, seismic. A mineral deposit rich enough to be mined. Best suited to widespread layers of materials such as coal, or near surface bodies such as uranium.

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