Mineral Resources

Reswin Ali
BBA 5th sem
20171247
 MINERAL RESOURCES
• Mineral resources are natural resources.
• It include metals (e.g. iron, copper, and aluminum), and non-metals (e.g.
salt, gypsum, clay, sand, phosphates).
• As regards its availability, the stock of minerals are finite and are non
renewable
 Use of Minerals

On the basis of Usage minerals can be classifies as

• Elements for metal production
• Technology
• Building materials
• Materials for chemical industry, agriculture ,etc.
 Annual Consumption of some of the Mineral
Resources

Sodium and Iron 0.1 to 1 billion metric tons per year

Nitrogen, Sulphur, Potassium and 10 to 100 million metric ton per year
Calcium
Zinc, copper, aluminum and led 3 to 10 million metric ton per year

Gold and Silver About 10thousand metric ton per year

 The measures to be taken to overcome the
problems of shortage of mineral resources

• Recycling
• Development of efficient technology
• Designing smaller equipment's
• Substitute minerals
 Environmental impact of mining and related
operations
• Degradation of land
• Pollution of surface and ground water
• Air pollution due to emission of dust and gases
• Deforestation
• Adverse impact to historical monuments and religious spots
• Physical change in land, soil, water and air
• Alteration in ground water level
• Causes for flood earthquake and damage to ecological sysytem
Social impact of mining and related operations

• Air pollution due to more vehicles and machines

• Urbanization
• Stress on local services such as water supplies, sewage and waste disposal
system
 Dereliction

• Dereliction means closing of mines and left to fall into damages

• Dereliction arises because mining operators are unwilling to spend money in
rehabilitation which will give them no direct finanacial return
 Negative effects of dereliction

• Waste of Agriculture and Industrial land

• Permeant damage to landscape
• Old quarries can get damaged
• Health and accidental hazards-Land over underground mines may subside,
causing collapses of houses
 Case Study

In Rajsamand lake was totally dried up after a decade of marble mining in

Rajnagar area. There was no history in the past 300 years that lake had dried
up. The supreme court decision on Nov 20,2002,led to closure of all the mines
in Rajasthan. But it was noted that during the 7 days the mines were
closed, the water level in the wells went up in the Rajsamand area.
Later on the government had lifted the ban on mining and shifted mining to
forest area under environment protection act.
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