ADMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Oil Springs, Ontario, Sudbury Basin, Zinc Oxide
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Lecture 10 natural resource industry july 12 2012. Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals from the earth. Any non-renewable resource that needs to be extracted (like oil or petroleum) is. Flint was a material used to create tools and a specialized version of mining. weapons in prehistoric times. Precious metals like copper, silver and gold have been mined since ancient. The quest for precious metals helped the roman empire to expand. Western world has some sort of historical tie (traditions, laws, etc. ) to the. In a sense, mining helped drive this along. In the middle ages, copper and iron were the most sought after metals. The development of the mounted knight and the nobility associated with knighthoods created an arm"s race; armour, shields weapons were all made of metal. In many cases an armoured knight would be carrying well over 100 pounds of refined metal. Advances in agriculture were made with the introduction of metal tools.