Urban mining is the recovery of building materials from buildings. This means that materials can be removed from a building in various stages from the...
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Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that...
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Scrap (section Urban mining)
of the cables installed in Sweden's telecoms came from harvesting via urban mining. In particular this involved copper, aluminium, iron and steel. Figures...
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Chinook Sciences (redirect from Chinook Urban Mining)
Officer in March 2012. In August 2012 it was announced that Chinook Urban Mining Ltd, of which Chinook Sciences has a minority interest, had submitted...
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metal stocks in society can serve as huge above-ground mines (the term "urban mining" has thus been coined). However, they found that the recycling rates...
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Paschim Bardhaman district (section Coal mining)
Paschim Bardhaman district is a predominantly urban mining-industrial district in West Bengal. The headquarter of the district is Asansol. It was formed...
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costs. Urban mining Biogas Chelation Daily cover Dump digging Landfill liner Landfill tax Mycoremediation Phytomining Waste picker Landfill Mining Landfill...
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Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning...
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Environmental impact of mining can occur at local, regional, and global scales through direct and indirect mining practices. Mining can cause erosion, sinkholes...
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Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely...
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Hydraulic mining is a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment. In the placer mining of gold or...
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small-scale mining (ASM) is a blanket term for a type of subsistence mining involving a miner who may or may not be officially employed by a mining company...
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Lubumbashi (section Mining)
Province, Lubumbashi is the center of mining in the region, acting as a hub for many of the country's largest mining companies. No definite population figures...
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controversial and supposedly “fictitious” 1981 arcade game that features in an urban legend. The legend describes the game as part of a government-run crowdsourced...
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A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners. Mining communities are usually created around a mine...
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Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city...
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Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process...
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Greenbushes mine is an open-pit lithium mining operation located south of the town of Greenbushes, Western Australia. It is the world's largest hard-rock...
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Ghost town (category Urban decay)
has failed or ended for any reason (e.g. a host ore deposit exhausted by mining). The town may have also declined because of natural or human-caused disasters...
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Industries (Marathi: उद्योग) and Mining in Maharashtra State Government 2019: Appointed minister of Industries, Mining and Marathi Language 2020: Appointed...
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of unionized extractive industries, such as mining and logging, which are much more important than urban manufacturing in the history of Canadian labour...
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Urbanization (redirect from Rural-urban migration)
urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in...
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Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous...
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the 5th and 16th century AD, Western Europe saw a period of growth in the mining industry. The first important mines were those at Goslar in the Harz mountains...
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Vol. 41, No. 3, 2000, pp. 61–65 (Abstract) "URBAN MINING Award: URBAN MINING AWARD 2014". "Urban Mining Kongress: HOME". Literature by and about Martin...
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Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often...
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as urban planning, a profession focusing on the design and management of urban areas, and urban sociology, an academic field which studies urban life...
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Tailings (redirect from Tailings (mining))
In mining, tailings or tails are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of...
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Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family...
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Vorkuta (redirect from Vorkuta Urban Okrug)
romanized: Vörkuta; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle...
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