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Oil is not mined it is drilled except for oil shale which is mined. Shell in the past has mined for oil shale. Click the link.
a boat load
Anything.
Data is mined in Antarctica, data that reflects the health of planet earth.
Coal is mined, oil and natural gas drilled, uranium mined. Wind and solar energy, tidal and ocean current, there to be taken. Hydro power, build a dam and wait for rain to fill it up.
The portion of the ocean floor that is rich in mineral deposits and often mined or drilled is known as the deep sea floor or abyssal plain. These areas can contain valuable resources like manganese nodules, hydrothermal vents, and polymetallic sulfides. Mining operations in these areas can have environmental impacts on deep-sea ecosystems.
Mostly coal right now. But anything can be strip mined and it's the cheapest and safest way.
Most is mined in open pit mines. The rocl is drilled and blasted with explosives. The broken rock containing copper ore is loaded into large trucks, and hauled to the processing plant. There the rock is crushed, and mixed with chemicals to extract the copper.
By building towns and cities, by agriculture and manufacturing goods from minerals mined or drilled from the earth. Transporting good around the globe and exchanging ideas from other cultures.
Anything mined
gold in klondike
Canada, which is north of Washington, is the home to a number of diamond mining operations. The mineral diamond is as hard as a mineral gets.