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Surface mining is more ecologically damaging than subsurface mining.


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True or false

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
True.

Surface mining (e.g., open-pit, strip, mountaintop removal) generally causes greater immediate landscape disturbance, habitat loss, erosion, and runoff/pollution than subsurface mining, which disturbs less surface area (though it has its own serious impacts).