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Every single day mining companies are concerned with the search for minerals that are found in the Earth’s crust. Annually, the United States uses more than 4 billion tons of mined materials, or about 18,000 kilograms per American, with about half constituting mineral fuels and the other half metals and non-metals. The value of processed non-fuel materials in the United States totals approximately 440 billion Australian dollars.
During the lifetime of the average American, he or she will use 360 kilograms each of lead and zinc; 680 kilograms of copper; 1,600 kilograms of aluminum; 11,000 kilograms of clay; 12,000 kilograms of salt; 25,000 kilograms of steel; 226,800 kilograms of coal; and more than 453,000 kilograms of stone, sand, gravel, and cement.
Source: Compton's Interactive Encyclopaedia.
© 1992, 1994 Comptons New Media Inc
THE WANDJINA:
He gave man to this earth. He put himself in paintings on cave walls so man would always remember him and follow his laws in the ways of life.
NAMARRKON:
The Lightning Spirit causes severe tropical electrical storms, destroys homes and kills people. It is believed that if the sacred dreaming site of Namarrkon is disturbed by man, he will send a violent storm which will result in severe destruction and death.
About thirty miles east of Oenpelli there is a taboo dreaming site called Namarrkon which is the camping place of this Dreamtime Spirit. It is a sacred site which is rarely approached by Aboriginal people who fear the wrath of the lightning spirit who lives there.
Source: AUSTRALIA DREAMING
40,000 Years of Aboriginal History
compiled and edited by Jennifer Isaacs
Ure Smith Press - 1980.
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