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Originally Posted by feepa
How is mining oil and gas different than mining other things lio45?
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Well, first, it competes in the global marketplace against, and is interchangeable with, identical products that aren't mined.
Also, it's different enough from other mined products to always make the news separately and individually from them.
Thirdly, I am pretty sure the price of oil is less linked to the price of the various metals (say, most of the major ones) as those are between each other. "The global price of oil" is a completely different topic from "mining operations in [any given country]". Therefore, one would tend to think it deserves its own thread. Just like CBC covers specifically
oil in the news these days, not mining in general.
And regardless, anyway, mining or not, if, say, gold ever becomes the main hot topic in the country, I might argue that there should be a gold discussion thread allowed here, separate from "general mining operations discussion".