Digging Deeper: Miner Details of a Major Industry

This week on Sprouts, a group of MIT freshmen describe their experience in the Southwest United States learning about strategic natural resources, mining, and the amazing people involved in the process. After researching solutions to the global problem of the sustainability and availability of strategic natural resources, they visit the places these resources are produced and learn that there’s a lot more to the process than they’d thought.

Music by:

In the Bamboo Grove by The Bamboos
Paradise by Coldplay,
Then You Came by Embers in Ashes
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
Boy With A Coin and House By The Sea by Iron and Wine
Gravity by Love Like Gravity
BomBom by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Moth’s Wings by Passion Pit
Light and Day / Reach For The Sun by Polyphonic Spree,
Weird Fishes by Radiohead
Feed The Machine by RED
The Longest Day by Sagisu Shirou
So Far Gone by Thousand Foot Krutch.

Credits:

Produced by: Dirk Stahlecker, Terrascope Radio, Cambridge, Massachusetts


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