How does minerals and metal get n the rainforest ? ? ? ? ?

Question

How does minerals and metal get n the rainforest ? ? ? ? ?

Answer 1

Do you mean the minerals needed for plantgrowth?

There is only one source. The soil. But after many eons of plangrowth and vegetation in a rainforest all of those minerals have been sucked up into the plants and the trees meaning there are no useful minerals and metals left in the soil. Cut down the trees and you don´t even have enough nutrients in the soil to grow grass. A good way to destroy land then.

Answer 2

It was created by nature, mined by people. They are already within the rainforests.

"Gold, copper, diamonds, and other precious metals and gemstones are important resources that are found in rainforests around the world. Extracting these natural resources is frequently a destructive activity that damages the rainforest ecosystem and causes problems for people living nearby and downstream from mining operations. In the Amazon rainforest most mining today revolves around alluvial gold deposits. Due to the meandering nature of Amazon rivers, gold is found both in river channels and on the floodplains where rivers once ran. ..."