Metal extraction

This table weighs up the advantages and disadvantages of extracting metals from their ores.

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Advantages and disadvantages of metal extraction

Advantages

  • Metals are used daily by most people, so are useful.
  • Mining metals gives miners work to do, so money is brought into the economy- leading to better quality of life.

Disadvantages

  • Mining causes damage to the environment.
  • It causes noise.
  • It scares the landscape.
  • It destroys habitats.
  • Deep mine shafts can be dangerous even after the mine has been abandoned.

Evaluation

There are more negative effects that mining causes, however metals play a huge part in the development of countries.

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