Ask: What does each mine produce? Explain the answer to the question Why do more minerals gather in certain places? Ask: What are the top three areas that produce this metal for the world? The following steps will allow students to elaborate on the question, a t this rate, how long can we use resources?
This activity has been adapted slightly to fit the National Geographic Education format. Please find the original here. Ask: If the recycling rate of chromium is doubled, what is the fraction of new material needed to make products that use chromium? The fraction of the percent of new material used currently, divided by how much new material there will be after recycling is increased, results in how much longer this resource will now be available.
Have students calculate how much time the use of tin can be extended by doubling the amount of recycling from 75 percent new material to 50 percent new material. By doubling the recycling, you will have 1. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit.
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Safety and our people Road technology first for Los Bronces road 1 December Copper was originally refined from its ores to make instruments, weapons, and hunting tools. Rechargeable batteries will continue to play a significant role in the green energy movement as a means of curbing global warming.
Cars: A decade ago few electric cars were on the road. As society weans itself of fossil fuels, more environmental models are using a wider variety and a larger amount of certain minerals.
Hybrid cars have lanthanum in the batteries, neodymium in the electric motors, and twice as much copper as non-hybrid cars. Copper mined in an underground mine is done by sinking shafts to the appropriate levels and driving horizontal tunnels to reach the ore. New developments in electronics are always on the horizon. More iron, aluminum and other common metals will also be necessary to support future advancements.
Precious gems offer beauty, but a good battery is priceless. Thefts of mineral resources are becoming commonplace as demands drive up their value.
It gained further value as a means of preventing lithium-ion batteries from overheating, as well as for its role in medical diagnostic equipment. Its value surged more than percent between and Cobalt is just one of dozens of similarly critical elements. Indium, a soft metal generated during zinc ore processing, is considered critical to the U.
Necessities most associated with modern society operate thanks to dozens of relatively obscure minerals. Some of these materials are part of a coveted group of rare earth elements REEs located somewhere in the middle of the periodic table. Although not all REEs are scarce, their annual production is relatively low. They have an indispensable role in the high-tech industry because of unique characteristics that make them difficult to substitute. If you drive through Kern County, California, you might hear the distant hum of dozens of enormous wind towers sprinkled across the landscape.
They supply 1, megawatts of renewable energy to residents throughout Southern California. Two megawatts is enough to serve the momentary demands of 1, households. Turning at the center of the large blades are powerful magnets that cause them to spin and generate electricity when the wind blows. The magnet in a wind turbine can hold as much as two tons of iron, neodymium and boron, says Price. Similar wind farms are cropping up in remote areas around the globe.
In the U. As the trend progresses, mineral supplies will need to keep up with it.
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