In the southern Appalachian Mountains, hundreds of miles of streams and freshwater systems are destroyed in the process of
A) stream mining, in which oil buried under the streams is harvested.
B) mountaintop removal mining to remove coal.
C) diverting water to run coal machines in mines deep below the Earth.
D) moving coal from deep shaft mines to major rivers.
B
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