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Millenium Minerals

Modern living in the next millennium will be dominated by advanced computers and highly sophisticated technology. The advances and developments over the last 30 years have given us an indication of what might lie ahead and innovations such as intercontinental travel, mobile phones, credit cards,  banking, global television stations will lose their novelty as more high tech products are launched.

However, no matter how advanced these innovations may be they will all have one thing in common - they cannot do without the products of mining. Without mining we can forget about moving into the next millennium because all these products cannot be produced without the necessary minerals.

The term 'modern living' will just be a figment of our imagination! PMEA

Did you know that.....

It takes 40 minerals  to make a telephone, more than 40 to make a computer and about 35 for a television. (Mines Online, 07-09-01)

Cyanide puts the blue in blue jeans, and that low level of cyanide are found in many plants that we eat such as potatoes, sugarcane, radishes, beans and cabbage.(Mines Online, 07-09-01)

It is estimated that 80% of Copper, the earliest metal known to man discovered 5,000 years before gold, smelted as early as 3,500 BC is still in use in some new guise and some in the original. The remaining copper water plumbing system at the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, for example still works. (Chamber of Mines Newsletter, 10-12-02)