Mining Misconceptions with Rohitesh Dharwan
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What's Different to Metallurgical Coal?
Iron ore just to share amount of iron ore that the world consumes means that that is a very big portion of global mining activity until now. There's also coal like the coal operation that you saw although there are not many which had children working in them. Then there's precious metals by the way which we haven't talked about but that's gold and platinum and palladium and other precious metals dinos yeah because I'm assuming those are metals like that. We dig up enormous amounts of coal which can be done by going underground or what's called open cast mining, as well as metallurgical coal when combined with iron produces steel but it also produces greenhouse gases.
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