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  • The Wilds Wildlife Conservation Center (Muskingum County, Ohio USA)

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    “The Wilds is a private, non-profit wildlife conservation center located in Muskingum County, Ohio. It is situated on 9,154 acres (37.04 km²) of reclaimed coal mine land and is home to over 25 non-native and hundreds of native species. The Wilds is the largest wildlife conservation center for endangered species in North America and is…

  • Butchart Gardens (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)

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    The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens are located on the site of a worked-out limestone quarry. Click Here for Wikipedia Article about Butchart Gardens [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_zS46XL4-I[/embedyt]

  • Solution Mining

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    “In-situ leaching (ISL), also called in-situ recovery (ISR) or solution mining, is a mining process used to recover minerals such as copper and uranium through boreholes drilled into a deposit, in situ.” Wikipedia entry on Solution Mining [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZsJnJBRmFw[/embedyt] [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lndabgi3y20[/embedyt]

  • Surface Mining

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    Surface mining is done by removing (stripping) surface vegetation, dirt, and if necessary, layers of bedrock in order to reach buried ore deposits. Techniques of surface mining include; Open-pit mining which consists of recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying or gathering building materials from an open pit mine, strip mining…