resource extraction
Taking natural wealth
Resource extraction is the removal of natural materials from the earth for human use—mining ore, drilling oil, harvesting timber, pumping groundwater.
The term often appears in discussions of environmental impact and indigenous rights, where extraction implies taking from land and communities: Resource extraction has transformed the region's economy and ecosystem.
The extracted materials become raw inputs for manufacturing and energy production.
- frackingExtracting gas via pressure
- oreMetal-bearing rock
- open pitSurface-level excavation site
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- boom and bustRecurring economic extremes
tailings · mining · forced labor · exploitation · crude oil · deforestation · clear cutting · excavation · mercantilism · smelting · environmental justice · nationalization · imperialism · mineral rights · blood diamonds · conflict minerals · coal seam · prospecting
- heavy industrysteel mills, steel production, steel industry, steelmaking, smelters
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- imperialismempire building, colonization, imperial expansion, British Empire, colonies
- Arctic industriesoil drilling, arctic drilling, offshore drilling, fishing industry, commercial fishing
- Asian ColonialismBritish Raj, British India, Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, East India Company
- Canadian ArcticNunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Yellowknife
resource extractionrecycling
Reprocessing used materials
reforestation · land reclamation · ecosystem restoration · upcycling · remediation
resource extractionconservation
Preventing waste or loss
non-intervention · environmental preservation · preservation · ecosystem restoration · environmental protection
resource extractionsynthesis
Combining parts into whole
manufacturing · fabrication · 3D printing · vertical farming · desalination
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