MIKE DILGER’S WILDLIFE WATCHING
Mar 12, 2020
2 minutes
Stone Age people were the first to quarry building stone. They also exploited clays to make pottery and opened mines for flint, starting a long history of extraction activities by humankind. Over the course of the following millennia, right up to present day, our insatiable demand for rock, sand, gravel and other minerals has seen these valuable materials commandeered in ever greater quantities for the
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