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__ **ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MINING** __ __ **Advantages** __ __ **1. We extract minerals to use in our everyday life.** __ __ **2. We export minerals to make Australia a richer country.** __ __ **3. Although mining is extremely harmful it also provides hundreds of thousands** __ __ **of people with jobs.** __ __ **4. People get wealthy very quickly by risking their lives. The deeper into the earth** __ __ **they go, the more money they receive.** __

__ **Disadvantages** __ __ **1. Mining is very risky. Many things can go wrong while mining. E.G There could** __ __ **be** ____ **a small earthquake and the cave can close in.** __ __ **2. Mining causes wasteland.** __ __ **3. Mining takes away the habitats of many poor animals, making more animals** __ __ **extinct.** __ __ **4. Once an area is mined it will never be the same.** __   

Gold is a soft, yellow precious metal that is very valuable. 1 ounce of gold can be hammered into a sheet that covers 300 square feet. Gold has other metals in it to make it harder. Gold is created when there is a supernova explosion up in space. It is much heavier than iron.

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