a)- Availability of skills and relevant modern machines are important for specialized mining
operators.
- If the skills /technology is inadequate then there would be need to bring in foreign experts mini therefore becomes dependent on foreign control.
b)- High quality ores are economical to extract as they yield a large amount metal/low quality ores are rarely extracted for their metal content is very low.
- Some rare minerals e.g uranium are exported despite their ores having low mineral content because they are important
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