Question

importance of conservation of minerals. any three points

Answer 1

Answer:

• Mineral resources are being rapidly consumed which takes millions of years to be created and concentrated.

• Mineral resources are finite and non-renewable

• Continued extraction of ores leads to increasing costs as mineral extraction comes from greater depths along with decreasing quality.

The three measures to conserve minerals are:  

• It should be used in a planned a sustainable manner.
• Improved technology needs to be constantly evolved to allow use of low grade ores at low costs.
• Some of the metals are recyclables.
• Scrap of metal can be used and sore other substitute can be found.

Answer 2

Conservation of minerals is important for the following reasons: (i) Minerals are exhaustible. (ii) They are limited. (iii) Minerals have manifold uses. (iv) Growth of industrialisation has accelerated the extraction of minerals. We can conserve minerals by making an efficient use of them and using recyclable sources of energy wherever possible.

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