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Q: What is the name of the method of extracting minerals that involves digging into the surface?
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The method of extracting minerals that involves digging beneath the surface is referred to as What mining?

This would be underground mining.


What is opencast mining?

open cast minng involves the digging out of minerals that occur on the surface of the earth


What is different deep mining and opencast mining?

rocks and minerals are easy to find and extract when they outcrop on or near the Earth's surface. All that needs to be done id to clear the vegetation and soil from the surface and start digging. Such mining is called open cast mining. deep mining involves sinking a vertical shaft down to the rock layer containing minerals, making a horizontal tunnel following the mineral layer, extracting the minerals by digging done by machines and miners, bringing the loose rock from the mine and piling it up on waste heaps on the surface and transporting the minerals. deep mining is more dangerous than open cast as miners work underground while in open cast workers work on the surface.


What involves skimming minerals in long patches off the earth's surface?

no


What affects does mining have on the landscape and farming land near the mining site?

something that affects the land by mining is that when you mine you tale minerals out of the earth and the earth needs minerals to survive


What is the difference between warranty deed and mineral deed?

A mineral rights conveyance involves the minerals below the surface of the land, not the surface land itself.


Where are minerals formed?

On the surface or under the surface.


What are the possible ways to bring water to the surface?

digging it up


When metal detecting if digging is not allowed how is a find retrived?

If digging is not allowed on the site, the find cannot be retrieved unless it is on the surface.


What is shapes on the earths surface?

minerals


How did these minerals get to the surface?

I don’t know ??


Why do chickens do digging?

They scratch at the surface of the earth to uncover seeds, and small grubs.