{"id":462,"date":"2015-02-01T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2023-02-01T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:00:36","slug":"rock-and-roll-or-rocks-and-coal-bestology-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/01\/rock-and-roll-or-rocks-and-coal-bestology-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll or ROCKS and COAL? bESTology Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rock and Roll or ROCKS and COAL?\u00a0 bESTology Week 2<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Just as Rock and Roll is music to our ears, so is the sound of hearing someone shout, \u201cLook at what I discovered\u201d! Whether it is gold on a riverbed or rare minerals deep inside our earth, our daily lives depend on mined materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0During prehistoric times, surface mining was key but as time and technology progressed, mining dug deeper into the depths of the earth.\u00a0 Geological studies unveiled the diversity of land and sea.\u00a0 North America is rich in salt, coal and copper while Africa is recognized for bauxite, aluminum and diamonds.\u00a0 South America has an abundance of lithium.\u00a0 Geology takes us into the depths of the earth to reveal how the resources were formed and why they are deposited in various locations on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Mother Nature has distributed minerals and elements in a fashion of hide and seek.\u00a0 As materials are mined and become limited, new substances are discovered each day but each new mined substance must have a value, thus \u201cPay Dirt\u201d.\u00a0 As bESTologists, let\u2019s explore!<\/span><\/p>\n

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