Multiple Choice
A lesson from the Ducktown, Tennessee mining experience is that mineral exploitation can
A) produce great wealth but at great social and environmental cost.
B) be done in an environmentally sound way.
C) significantly improve the health of local people.
D) actually enhance the biotic resources of a region.
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