In which of the following ways did European mercantilist policies contribute to the development of colonial mining operations like the one depicted in the image?

radioactive dating, also known as  radioisotope dating  is a process that in  estimating the approximate  age  of  rocks. these data can be analyzed from  the studies dealing with the  decay of the radioactive elements that are present in these rocks. in nature, there are a few types of materials or atoms which are quite unstable and they spontaneously decay or breakdown to form other kinds of atoms.

d) eastern business owners and former federalists