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Take a virtual field trip with Google Earth! Google Earth is a free, online application that uses satellite imagery to allow the user to zoom across the globe in a realistic, virtual environment. Downloading Google Earth is free at http://www.earth.google.com. An overview manual is available by clicking here... Google Earth Overview (342.0K)
To continue: - Make sure you have the Google Earth software installed and running. - Copy the following latitude and longitude and paste into the "Fly to" field under the Search tab. - Hit "Enter" for Google Earth to take you to the specified coordinates, then come back here and read the following overview.
Latitude/Longitude: 69.3632, 88.1339
This view shows the main factory complex. Note the smokestack shadows, as well as the uniform color of the landscape. Smelting (heating ore to extract minerals) produces large amounts of acidic air emissions that can damage or destroy vegetation downwind of a smelter. If you zoom out and move northeast and from this place marker, you can see that there is more than one smelter complex in the area. Russia produces about 20 percent of all the heavy metals in world commerce. We all benefit from this dirty industry. Without copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold, and other metals, your computer, cell phone, TV, automobile, and all the other machines on which modern life depends wouldn't be possible.
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