Minerals and Energy Resources PDF
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2024
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The document discusses the importance of minerals and energy resources, highlighting their role in industry and agriculture. It emphasizes the slow rate of mineral formation and the need for conservation practices, especially as extraction comes from greater depths. The document mentions printing for the year 2024-25.
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Stricter safety regulations and required millions of years to be created and implementation of environmental laws are concentrated. The geological processes of essential to prevent mining from becoming a mineral formation are so slow that the rates “killer industry”....
Stricter safety regulations and required millions of years to be created and implementation of environmental laws are concentrated. The geological processes of essential to prevent mining from becoming a mineral formation are so slow that the rates “killer industry”. of replenishment are infinitely small in comparison to the present rates of CONSERVATION OF MINERALS consumption. Mineral resources are, We all appreciate the strong dependence of therefore, finite and non-renewable. Rich industry and agriculture upon mineral mineral deposits are our country’s extremely deposits and the substances manufactured valuable but short-lived possessions. from them. The total volume of workable Continued extraction of ores leads to mineral deposits is an insignificant fraction increasing costs as mineral extraction comes i.e. one per cent of the earth’s crust. We are from greater depths along with decrease rapidly consuming mineral resources that in quality. MINERALS AND ENERGY RESOURCES 49 Reprint 2024-25
