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What are advantages and disadvantages of development mineral resources

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Answered by steffis
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Advantages and disadvantages of development mineral resources:

  • Minerals are scattered across the earth’s surface but usually in such small amounts that they not worth retrieving.
  • Only with help of some equipment, we can extract these minerals in economically viable amount.

Advantages of mining include:

  • Boost in country’s economy
  • Employment opportunities are made available to the people
  • Source of energy
  • Extraction of useful natural resources like coal, oil, natural gas, etc.

Disadvantages include:

  • Destruction of ecosystem
  • Environment is contaminated, pollution occurs.
  • Adverse effects in health of people

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