Gifts from the earth

United States, 1986

TV show
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Episode number 5 of Series “Planet earth”.
There are only 150 sites world wide for the minerals essential to man and in the past decade we have been made aware that the earth is a closed system and its resources are finite. This program looks at the challenge of finding new sources of these minerals and the highly sophisticated technologies which are employed to do so, and also at how the resources are created.

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Credits

producer

Theodore Thomas

production company

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

WQED

Duration

00:58:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1986

Appears in

Planet earth

Group of items

Planet earth

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303628

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural history

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Television

Television → Television programs

Television → Television programs → Television programs - United States

Television → Television series

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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