Question

Advantages and disadvantages of having having minerals as a country​

Answer 1

Advantages:

✓ They can be sold by the country to act as a source of revenue

✓ Exploitation of minerals from their sources provide employment opportunities for the minors

✓The mineral can be used as raw materials for making products

✓ Exploitation of minerals from a country can open the countries trade opportunities with other countries.

✓ The mining of a mineral can lead to infrastructural development

Disadvantages:

✓Mining can lead to land dereliction

✓Mining can lead to loss of biodiversity

✓ Mining sites are left ugly after after their mineral being mined get exhausted

✓Mining sites after mining is over are usually prone to accidents

Answer 2

Everything the other person says, is agreed.