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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/13-innovations-making-the-mining-and-metals-industry-more-sustainable/ by Miranda Barker 29/11/24 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/13-innovations-making-the-mining-and-metals-industry-more-sustainable/ by Miranda Barker 29/11/24 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
The increasing population and the reliance on technology, such as electric vehicles, energy systems and advanced electronics, has raised the demand for minerals and metals like lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and copper. This transition necessitates an even greater reliance on these minerals compared to conventional methods. For instance, an electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car. | The increasing population and the reliance on technology, such as electric vehicles, energy systems and advanced electronics, has raised the demand for minerals and metals like lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and copper. This transition necessitates an even greater reliance on these minerals compared to conventional methods. For instance, an electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car. | ||
=====U.S. mining sites dump 50 million gallons of fouled wastewater daily===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-mining-sites-dump-50-million-gallons-of-fouled-wastewater-daily by Matthew Brown 20/2/19 PBS NEWS] | |||
The pollution is a legacy of how the mining industry was allowed to operate in the U.S. for more than a century. Companies that built mines for silver, lead, gold and other “hardrock” minerals could move on once they were no longer profitable, leaving behind tainted water that still leaks out of the mines or is cleaned up at taxpayer expense. | |||
