ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Coltan, Artisanal Mining, Columbite
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Session 37: mineral resources & mining (i) (4- How mineral resources contribute to our economy and society. The major methods and stages of mining. The environmental and social impacts of mining. Reclamation efforts and mining policy in canada. Some ways to encourage sustainable use of mineral and other nonrenewable resources more fled. Cell phones and many other high-tech products contain coltan, used to make tantalum capacitors (coltan = columbite + tantalite) Democratic republic of the congo: since 2000, >5 million died and millions. Recyclable resources (classified on basis of management) Earth resources and living resources (classified on basis of origin) Critical flow resources (effectively nonrenewable because of mismanagement) Common property resources (classified on basis of ownership) Earth resources are extracted from the solid earth. Earth resources are: nonrenewable on a humanly accessible timescale - mineral. & rock resources - some energy resources (e. g. , fossil fuels, uranium) - soil (sometimes included) - generally excludes living resources (why ?)
