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Mining is the extraction of minerals from
under the land or sea for industrial or
domestic uses. Exhaustion of traditionally
accessible resources has led to development
of new mining techniques, eg: extraction of
oil from offshore deposits and from land
shale reserves. Technology is also under
development for the exploitation of minerals
from entirely new sources such as mud
deposits and mineral nodules from the sea
bed.
Subject by: Andrew Longhorn