What are advantages and disadvantages of development mineral resources
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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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