Heavy landscape damage and water pollution have occurred in ________ as a result of ________

A) Appalachia; mountaintop removal mining for coal
B) San Francisco; placer mining for gold
C) Mississippi; strip mining for uranium
D) Canada; subsurface mining for oil sands
E) Florida; subsurface mining for limestone


A

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