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Know Everything in Detail about Large Scale Mining and Small Scale Mining

Mining, simply stated, is the extraction or removal of minerals and metals from earth. Some of the items that are commonly mined are Manganese, copper, tantalum, tin, aluminum ore, nickel, iron ore, gold, silver, and diamonds are. It is worth knowing that mining is a money-spinning business where not only mining companies prosper but the government also collects huge revenues. Mining are generally of two categories - Large Scale Mining and Small Scale Mining . Large scale mining is usually undertaken by big companies using many employees and a huge labor force. The company mines at large sites and continues the operations until the mineral or metal is completely excavated. One classic example of a large scale mine, that one readily remembers, is the Serra Pelada mine in Brazil which yielded 29,000 tons of gold from 1980 to 1986 and employed 50,000 workers. Small scale mining is done by a relatively small group of wandering men. They travel together and identify sites they th