Mining
Mining industry indicates the cluster of process that are involved with extraction, management, and processing of naturally occurring solid minerals from the earth surface (www.sciencedirect.com)
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Future
Despite mining's environmental impact, it remains a crucial future industry because minerals are vital to infrastructure and development. The Paris Agreement goal of net zero emissions by 2050 emphasizes the importance of mining over the next few decades. Machine learning with artificial intelligence can make dramatic cost savings if they’re implemented by end users.
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The earliest known mine for a specific mineral is coal from southern Africa, appearing worked 40,000 to 20,000 years ago. But mining did not become a significant industry until more advanced civilizations developed 10,000 to 7,000 years ago. Since civilization began, people have used mining techniques to access minerals on the surface of the Earth. Discoveries have shown that flint pebbles were extracted from deposits in France and Britain as far back as the New Stone Age. Ancient Egyptians mined copper as far back as 3000 BCE. In the earliest days, mining was slow-going and dangerous. However, as time progressed, society developed safer and more accurate methods of locating and uncovering substances found on the earth
