what are positive factors of mountaintop removal mining?

You get a relatively cheap fossil fuel, coal.

Now the bad- You get added pollution from the use of the coal. The natural shape of the mountain is destroyed. The people and animals that lived there have to move out. You get heavy truck traffic moving machines in and hauling the coal out.

You decide if it is worth it. I am not trying to be mean. I just want you to think about it.

you get the minerals you want

you produce jobs