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Mining and Mining Geomechanics

Hornictví a hornická geomechanika

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Mining and Mining Geomechanics at VSB-TUO

Language: Czech Studies in Czech
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
University website: www.vsb.cz
Years of study: 4

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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit. These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner.
The amount of energy potentially available from the difference in the salt concentrations of seawater and river water around the world is 1.4 to 2.6 terawatts, or about 20 % of local electricity consumption. This natural process does not produce carbon dioxide or any other polluting combustion emissions, nor does it result in thermal pollution.
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