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Give four ways in which minerals occur. Explain four benefits of Trona mining at Lake Magadi to Kenya.
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Give four ways in which minerals occur.
Explain four benefits of trona mining at Lake Magadi to Kenya.
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As veins and lodes
As beds and seam /layers
As alluvial deposits
As weathered products
As evaporates.
Export of soda ash earns foreign exchange to Kenya which is used in foreign trade.
Trona mining has created employment opportunities to many Kenyans who earn income thus improving their standards of living.
Development of glass and bottle industry as soda ash from Trona provides the main raw material.
Trona mining has led to development of a tarmac road and railway branch from Konza to Magadi.
Provision of social amenities such as schools and a hospital thus improving living standards of the local people.
The Kenyan government (national and county) earns revenue through taxation on the profit of the company.
The company provides free water to the local people for both domestic and livestock use.
Trona mining has led emergence and growth of Magadi town thus urbanization in the former remote area.
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