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On Earth and Beyond Now, from Ancient Profession to Modern Mining Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei proposes that you consider your smartphone if you
still think of mining as an ancient, low-tech business in today’s scenario. "Every one of the 46 elements in your iPhone comes from the soil," says Awuah-Offei, a Union Pacific/Rocky Mountain Energy Professor of mining engineering at Missouri S&T and temporary director of mining and explosives engineering.
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