Chemistry GCSE
Environmental and economic trade-offs in extraction
What Environmental and economic trade-offs in extraction means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Weighing advantages such as working on low-grade ores and less landscape disruption against disadvantages such as slow rates and the need for large areas of land.
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- Bioleaching
- Economic and environmental choices in metal extraction
- Environmental impact of extraction
- Evaluating evidence and reaching justified conclusions
- Finite resources
- Low-grade ores
- Phytomining
- Recycling and resource conservation
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