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Mining Lights up Our Lives
Mining is plugged into the electrical needs of Canadians. Coal and uranium provide one-third of our electrical requirements every day. We are the world's largest producer of uranium, exporting about 85 percent of what we produce to nuclear electric utility customers in Japan, Europe and the United States. Alberta, meanwhile, which produces half of the coal mined in Canada, relies on coal for 84 percent of its electric power. Copper is used in the wiring that distributes the power to our homes and offices. On a lighter note, bulbs contain silica.
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