What are the advantages and disadvantages of mining?

Answer 1

The advantage is that it supplies raw materials (metals, coal) that are needed to build and maintain modern industries and economies.

The disadvantages include:

• The depletion of resources rather than the reuse of existing materials, or use of materials readily available on the surface (e.g. hydropower, solar power instead of coal and uranium)
• The damage to both underground and surface environments (e.g. produced water, coal slag, strip mining)
• The danger posed to men engaged in mining (cave-ins, explosions, gas, black-lung disease, asbestosis, silicosis, and radiation sickness)

Reasons for Mining

Gold, diamonds and ores such as uranium supply national governments with trading goods, and provide jobs for millions of miners.

Mining is essential to modern society. The computer you are using to read this contains about 37 materials that came from mining. The electricity to power it may come from coal, oil, or gas brought from underground.

Answer 2

Advantages of mining include job creation, economic development, and access to valuable Natural Resources. Disadvantages include environmental destruction, health and safety risks for workers, and negative impact on local communities. It is important for mining practices to be conducted responsibly and sustainably to mitigate these disadvantages.

Answer 3

The advantage of mining is that the government receives higher income tax.

The disadvantage of mining is habitat destruction.