MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES IN INDIA
MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES
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Composed primarily of methane (CH4). Formed from plants and animals that were buried deep within the ocean floor.
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Resources that cannot be replaced.
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An inorganic compound or element that has a regular crystalline structure.
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Mining where explosives or heavy machinery are used to literally remove the top of a mountain in order to obtain valuable mineral resources within that mountain.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest mountain ranges on Earth.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Coal seams are extracted from a mountain by removing the land, or overburden, above the seams.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mountaintop removal takes place primarily in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee.
Detailed explanation-4: -This waste-rocks, rubble and coal debris removed from atop the coal-which is called overburden, is bulldozed into nearby valleys. The valley’s headwater streams (small tributaries that lead to larger rivers) are buried under hundreds to thousands of feet of this fill.