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"The story of electronics..."
Raya Islam
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What are some environmental, social and economic impacts of mining each of these elements?
IMPACTS OF MINING
Iron:
- Horrific effects on air quality
- Bad water quality
Iron
Cobalt:
- Cobalt is important for the lithium-ion batteries that are in cellphones and a variety of viechles.
Cobalt
Dysprosium:
- loss of biodiversity, soil erosion
- contamination of water and soil which can stop crops from growing and can kill many living things
Dysprosium
Where in the world are each of these elements from?
WHERE?
Iron:
- iron is the most common element in the earth's crust
- Stars
- Can be found in magnetite and taconite
- The first country in iron production is iron
Iron
Cobalt:
- Canada, Australia, Brazil
- Cobalt is only sometimes mined alone
- Russia and Australia are one of the worlds largest producers of cobalt
Cobalt
Dysprosium
Dysprosium:
- Can be found in many minerals two of them being bastnasite and monazite
- Mined in china, russia, australia, usa and more
- Not found in nature alone
ENVIRONMENTAL
Consider tailing from mining and what is done with them ; consider potential impacts to plants/animals and their habitats; consider health impacts to air quality and to land/water pollution.
Land & Water
Pollution
Plants & Animals
Plants & Animals
Iron (environment):
- destruction of habitats in surrounding areas
Iron
Cobalt
Cobalt (environment):
- Water pollution from mining can affect fish and other plants and animals that live in the lakes and streams near mines which can kill them and eventually decrease the food supply of ppl around them
- Cobalt can be very scary and severe, and sometimes even more severe than the water pollution from mines that are operating these days
Dysprosium
Dysprosium (environment):
- habitat loss
- pollution in the air making it hard for them to breathe
- water pollution amking them ill or unable to drink water
Air quality
Air Quality
Iron (air quality):
- nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide are affecting the air quality
- In some cases, the emissions from older metal smelters can make you sick
- Can be inducing loss of biodiversity, erosion of soil and affects to water
Iron
Cobalt
Cobalt (air quality)
- Dust and other particulate matter can cause breathing problems for people, especially because of how small they are
- Cobalt can cause an allergic reaction similar to asthma.
Dysprosium
Dysprosium (air quality):
- respiratory issues due to the dust particles from the mining equipent & procedure
Consider regional conflicts over resources, health
SOCIAL
Health Issues / Corruption
Health Issues
Iron(health issues):
- fume fever
- fever and chills
Iron
Cobalt (health issues):
- respiratory issues due to the dust particles from the mining equipment & procedure
Cobalt
Dysprosium (health issues):
- 500 g or more would be needed to put a person's life at risk
Dysprosium
CHANGES
What is currently being done to alleviate some of these impacts at the corporate and government levels? What are some of the changes that YOU could make to your personal life to alleviate some of the impacts mentioned?
Corporate / Government levels
On government levels they can ban the mining rights in some areas such as places with endangered species because the air/water pollution will only help to make them extinct.
Personally in my opinion I'm not sure if i can do anything alone but for sure if everyone teams up we can do something about the habitat loss, air pollution, water pollution problems due to the mining of metals.
What can I do?
Use 3 supporting arguments to answer the following question: "Has your device made this world a better place?"
BETTER
WORLD?
Arguments
Some can argue and say that for sure these devices are corrupting our brains but I think otherwise. My device has made this world much more developed. We are using these everyday devices to find cures for unknown diseases. We have made this world so much more interesting, complex and for sure frightening. Going from using maps to using a GPS. Slowly but quickly in the future we wont need any of the daily things we need today. We already have self driving cars whats next? robots that feed you?