• Mining

    • Mining gives us the stuff we need to produce energy, houses, cars, computers, and thousands of other products. But mining can be nasty business.

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    • Mining

    • Resources extracted from Earth

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    • tons
    • globally, this year

    • Gold mining

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    • tons mined
    • globally, this year

    • Waste from gold mining

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    • tons
    • globally, this year

    • Killed miners

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    • deaths
    • globally, this year

    • Coal mining

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    • tons mined
    • globally, this year

    • Pollution from 'Iron Mountain' mine

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    • time left
    • until end of pollution

    • Steel

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    • tons produced
    • globally, this year

    • Wastewater from steel mining

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    • tons
    • globally, this year

    • Recycled steel

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    • tons
    • globally, this year

    • Energy use from mining

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    • terajoules
    • globally, this year

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Something to consider

On average everyone uses 16 kilos of resources extracted from earth every day - metal, fossil energy, and minerals. If you live in the western world this number is much higher - up to 57 kilos of newly-mined minerals per day.

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