General
Resource Mining happened all around the globe and almost every time is a big concern involved, which helps the rich people to stay rich and exploit the poor people that they stay poor.
Resource Mining is more the procedure of how to get the resource out for the earth. Every resource has an individual way to mine them.
For Example:
Coal
Get mined with a bucket-wheel excavator (Schaufelradbagger) which has a weight of about 14'000 tons and can move about 240'000 tons/day of dirt or coal. The most coal-mines are in Germany.
Gold
Surface mining
Underground-mining
Impacts
- Loss of biodiversity
- Negative impact on our ecosystem
- Increase global warming
- Mostly not sustainable
- Exploitation of poor people
The Example «Congo»
Congo is one of the most resourceful countries in the world. There exist a lot of cobalt and coltan. But Congo has a corrupt government and this leads to illegally mining. The foreigners there also exploit the population of the poor country and this leads as well to some civil wars.
Question
For what do we need cobalt?
Almost for everything we use in our daily life.
Vocabulary
- Sustainable = Nachhaltig
- Raw material = Rohstoff
- Reuse = Wiederverwendung
- Primary raw material = Primärrohstoff
- Secondary raw material= Sekundärrohstoff (durch Recycling gewonnen)
- Limited = begrenzt
- To use sparingly = sparsam umgehen
- Developing countries = Entwicklungsländern
- Exploitation = Ausbeutung
Presentation
recoursmining.pdf (547,55 kb)