1. Sonia Morales

2.  Diamonds: About 20% of diamonds are used for jewelry, the other 80% is used in industry. They are used for cutting tools,polishing hard metals, phonograph,video disk and laboratory instruments.  Black Gold: it’s a natural mineral that has greenish brownish flammable liquid found underground in permeable rocks. Its used for furnaces,heaters and boilers, gasoline, fuel, paint, dyes, make up etc.

3.  Black Gold: It gives of a lot of pollution into the environment some examples include the infiltration of ozone into breathed air, acid rain and global warming.

4.  Black Gold: The oil that is left behind or thrown away can cause the animals that touch it to die.

5.  Black Gold: It gets pumped out of the ground very deep down, and then taken to a refining plant were they give us what we use now.

6.  Diamonds: With 23.5 deaths for every 100,000 workers, while the risks are lower in modern times,they still exist.  Black Gold: If it spills it can cause a lot of danger to our environment.

7.  http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-does- mining-affect-the-environment.html http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-does- mining-affect-the-environment.html