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Canada's Mining Industry And How It Affects The Natural Environment

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Mining is one of Canada’s primary industries, it involves extraction, refinery, and the processing of valuable minerals such as gold, copper, iron, nickel and zinc. All of the provinces except Prince Edward Island has had significant mining activities, but the industry is concentrated in provinces like Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Although mining is key to Canada’s economy, the country had been criticized for its methods of extraction of the minerals since it has negative impacts on the environment. This report will first describe how the mineral industry is important to Canada’s economy and will also fully describe one method that the industry employs to extract the minerals, and how it affects the natural
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