ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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mining
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manufacturing
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fishing
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farming
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Canadian Shield is one of the world’s richest areas in terms of mineral ores. It is filled with substantial deposits of nickel, gold, silver, and copper. Throughout the Shield there are many mining towns extracting these minerals. The largest, and one of the best known, is Sudbury, Ontario.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alternate titles: Canadian continental shield, Canadian-Greenland Shield, Laurentian Shield, Precambrian Shield.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Canadian Shield is one of the world’s richest areas in terms of mineral ores, such as nickel, gold, silver, and copper. It also hosts prehistoric alkaline intrusions that are lower-middle Cambrian in age that produced rare minerals like sodalite and cancrinite.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some of the resources that the Canadian Shield gives to Canadians are: 1) Furs-from fur bearing animals (hunting and trapping is still a large industry). 2) Minerals-this makes a lot of sense because the Shield is solid rock. Canadians extract copper, gold, nickel, zinc and lead from this area.