Negative Impact
It occurs when the acid and metals leach from the rocks.
What is acid drainage?
This law was made partly because of the California Gold Rush.
What is General Mining Law of 1872?
The name of a mineral used to extract valuable metals.
What is an ore?
It's a kind of mining where the surface soil is removed.
What is strip mining?
Open-pit and mountaintop removal can cause this type of pollution.
What is air pollution?
A chemical solution miners use to get their desired ore.
What is solution mining?
The mining companies use this method when the ground is unsuitable.
What is open pit mining?
When a plot of land is disturbed this happens.
What is erosion?
When mining has negative impact on the community and causes this.
What is property damage?
Protecting miners from hazards at their job.
What is mining safety?
A process in which deforestation occurs first then followed by repeated blasting.
What is mountaintop removal?
It's used to shift out valuable metals from sediments in river channels.
What is placer mining?
Placer mining, strip mining, and moutaintop mining removal can all lead to this metal particles released.
What is sediment and debris?
When a resource pocket occurs in concentrated pockets and allows for safe tunneling.
What is subsurface mining?
It's a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit.
What is surface mining?
Mines that are more expensive and are often used to reach deeper deposits.
What are the Underground mines?
The trade of gold in this country has led to violent conflicts.
Where is Indonesia?
Mining companies had to get permission to start mining due to this Act.
What is the reclamation Act?
Once the separation is complete, two products remain the concentrated minerals and the waste products is known as.
What is tailings?
Heating ore beyond its melting point and combining it with other metals or chemicals.
What is smelting?