Which of the following is major environmental issues in mining activities
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The most committed anti-mining activist and you would be able to read this answer, you already form part of the same supply chain together with the mining industry (namely the one for your computer or smart phone).
So why aren’t we recycling more? Well retrieving metals through a recycling process is still prohibitively expensive. Depending on the type of metal it could be a factor 3 more expensive than conventional mining.
And then there’s the ongoing technological advances we all want for a better environment like electric vehicles (cars, semi’s, etc.) Building the batteries for these modes of transportation is only possible if we have access to large quantities of Lithium (Li), Cobalt (Co) and Nickel (Ni).
Lithium is extracted from the brine recovered in salt mines. About 75% of the world’s Li resources are in Chile, Bolivia & Peru.
There might be metals you believe we could do without, like gold (Au). Applications of gold are not limited to vanity and finance. It has also applications in Tech and Healthcare.
^=^ Now let’s take the use case of salt mining in this Latin American triangle to extract Lithium ^=^
we don’t have a choice really, we need to electrify our transportation fleet, and pretty darn fast.
Looks like we have to choose between 2 evils:
1) Pollution on a global scale that could turn out to have irreversible negative consequences to our climate (raising sea levels, more droughts, more floods, etc.) followed by humanitarian disasters.
2) Negative environmental impact on a local scale to help safe the planet.
^=^
Pollution is one of the major environmental issues in mining activities. Mining activities causes a lot of pollution which is potentially harmful for us. Pollution is one of the major issues which the world is currently facing in the recent years which is leading to the degradation of the quality of the natural substances we consume. Air pollution is one of the major contributor which has been because of the enormous mining activities which has been Occouring all over the world.