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This is mining waste. It's rocks and dirt. You can't burn it.
by fallingknife 3y ago
This is mining waste. It's rocks and dirt. You can't burn it.
- salt-thrower 3y agoNot just rocks and dirt. Mining waste is often toxic - heavy metals, acid, that sort of thing.
- iancmceachern 3y agoSome you can, like coal
- fallingknife 3y agoThat's the product, not the waste
- iancmceachern 3y agoThe earth doesn't care. I was making the point that the parent commenter made an arbitrary distinction that wasn't even true. There are other minerals, rather are side effects of mining the true target minerals, that are "burnable". They're used in fireworks to make them different colors. https://mineralseducationcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/tested_by_fire_0.pdf https://mineralseducationcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/te...