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Potential health impacts from sand mining are poorly characterized but deserve further study. Extraction activities create new standing pools of water that can become breeding sites for malaria ...
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Impacts of riverine sand mining on freshwater ecosystems: A …
This paper summarizes the results of a structured literature review addressing the question, "What evidence is there of impacts of sand mining on ecosystem …
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The Environmental Problems Caused by Mining
A village was set up to support 15,000 miners working in the ruby mine near Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar. Photo: Pardieu et al. (2017). However, compared to many other industries such as agriculture, mining uses relatively small pockets of land, and the future of mining could move to using techniques that are arguably even less invasive on …
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How Unsustainable Sand Mining Affects the Environment
Although you may not realize it, sand is one of the most essential commodities in our modern world. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, sand and gravel are the second most used natural resources after water. As a key component of cement, asphalt and glass, sand plays a major role in every aspect of …
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Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: …
Sand, gravel, and crushed stone, collectively referred to as aggregates, are the most mined materials on Earth and constitute the foundation for modern civilization. Aggregates are essential for providing shelter (concrete buildings), movement (transport infrastructure), and communication (silica-based electronic devices). We review the interconnections …
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An Assessment of Environmental Impacts of Sand and Gravel Mining …
Sand and gravel mining refers to the actual process of removal of sand or gravel from a place of occurrence. The increase in demand for sand and gravel for construction purposes has placed immense pressure on the environment where these resources occur. Miners employ different methods of extraction along river channels and their flood …
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Sand mining: how it impacts the environment and solutions
Sand mining from rivers and marine ecosystems " can lead to erosion, salination of aquifers, loss of protection against storm surges and impacts on biodiversity, which pose a threat to livelihoods through, among other things, water supply, food production, fisheries, or to the tourism …
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Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to …
Sand plays a strategic role in delivering ecosystem services, vital infrastructure for economic development, providing livelihoods within communities and maintaining …
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Impacts of Sand Mining on Environment–A Review
The environmental impact of sand mining (2015-2020) is generally moderate (score ranging from 2/5 to 3/5). ... The paper describes now uncontrolled and illegal sand and gravel mining can have an ...
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The way forward to sustain environmental quality through …
The main emphasis of this study is focused on a significant increase in marine sand mining. Due to a significant increase in marine sand mining, the seabed fauna and flora are affected as shown in Fig. 4.There is a net decline in faunal biomass due to the extraction and dredging of aggregates from the bottom zone of the sea.
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Global sand and gravel extraction conflicts with half of UN …
"The impact that sand and gravel mining have on the environment, conflicts with goals linked to the natural dynamics of ecosystems. ... goals," says Mette Bendixen "In order to do so a more ...
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Our use of sand brings us "up against the wall", says UNEP …
50 billion tons: enough to build a wall 27 metres wide and 27 metres high around planet Earth. This is the volume of sand and gravel used each year, making it the second most used resource worldwide after water. Given our dependency on it, sand must be recognised as a strategic resource and its extraction and use needs to be rethought, …
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Environmental Impacts of Aggregate and Stone Mining
aggregate and sand mining involve the excavation, crushing, and screening of rocks that are predominantly Al-Mg-Fe-silicates, except for limestone and caliche, which are calcium ... it becomes clear that the environmental impacts of sand and gravel mining are widespread and cumulative. Below is a partial list of the potential
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The messy business of sand mining explained
Mining hot spots. Sand mining took off only decades ago. The method of extraction depends on where the sand is located. On land or along rivers, it is often dug up with backhoes, shovels or bare ...
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Sand and gravel mining impact on the surface water …
The water resources in Turkey are under immense pressure due to various kinds of anthropogenic activities among which sand and gravel mining is the most disastrous one due to its adverse environmental impacts. In this study, impacts of the sand and gravel mining activities in the city of Tirebolu, Giresun Province, on the water …
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Managing and Protecting Aggregate Resources
dust, blasting effects, erosion, and sedimentation. Most of the environmental impacts associated with aggregate mining are relatively benign. However, extracting aggregate from some areas may alter the geologic conditions, which, in turn, may alter the dynamic equilibrium of the area, resulting in cascading environmental impacts (Langer, 2001). By
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The environmental impacts of river sand mining
This paper brings together the effects of river sand mining on the physical, biological, chemical, and anthropogenic environment through a systematic literature …
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Public perspective on the environmental impacts of sea sand mining …
A project collecting a total of 24.3 million cubic meters of sea sand from the aggregate extraction complex in the exclusive economic zone of the South Sea in South Korea has been under way. The government needs information about the public perspective on the environmental impacts of the sea sand mining project.
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Global sand and gravel extraction conflicts with half of UN …
Unregulated sand mining has been documented in 70 countries across the globe, with associated conflicts related to ecological destruction, livelihood disruption …
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Impacts of Sand Mining on Environment–A Review
Illegal and indiscriminate sand mining will became threat to the worldwide environments. It leads to changes in river channel form, physical habitats and food webs. It also increases the velocity of flow in river which destroy flow-regime eventually erodes the river banks. Removal of vegetation and destruction of the soil profile destroys habitat …
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Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research needs in …
While stone, sand and gravel mining moves most earth ... mining must be placed thoughtfully within a wider environmental context. The impacts of mining on biodiversity will obviously differ if it takes place in a very degraded landscape versus wilderness area and the conservation responses across the mitigation hierarchy must …
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Sand mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains
The resulting environmental devastation of sand mining, including for concrete, is thus massive as it affects riverine, lake beds, coastal, and marine areas, …
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Environmental Impact and Sustainability in Aggregate
Aggregate production is, by the strictest definition, non-sustainable, since aggregate resources are non-renewable. However, the term sustainability used in this context, can be used to characterize an aggregate production which is in an optimum balance with the geological resources used, as well as with the various kinds of physical …
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Sand mining: global challenges and solutions
Later this month, government representatives, civil society groups, scientists and business leaders from around the world will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, for the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), the world's top decision-making body on the environment.Discussions are expected to focus on how science, data and …
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Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel …
Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land and Soil in Luku, Minna, Niger State, North Central Nigeria ... Much work has been carried out to access the environmental impacts of sand and gravel …
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Sand mining: global challenges and solutions
Natural resource extraction more than tripled between 1970 and 2019, driven in large part by a massive increase in the mining of sand and other construction …
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Sand mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains
The social and environmental impacts of sand mining have been increasingly documented and better understood. Here, we focus on negative impacts across six main categories (see Table 1), though we note that the complexity of issues at hand, including local livelihoods and need for construction materials, often result in …
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Sand and Gravel in the U.S.
Drucker, B. S., Waskes, W., & Byrnes, M. R. (2004). The U.S. Minerals Management Service Outer Continental Shelf Sand and Gravel Program: Environmental Studies to Assess the Potential Effects of Offshore Dredging Operations in Federal Waters. ... Impacts of Sand Mining on Ecosystem Structure, Process and Biodiversity in Rivers. …
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Understanding the impacts of mining on local environments …
J-WAFS researchers Scott Odell, a visiting researcher in MIT's Environmental Solutions Initiative, and John Fernández, a professor in MIT's Department of Architecture, are examining climate change, copper mining, and desalination, and their environmental and social impacts on Indigenous communities, glaciers, and …
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Impacts of riverine sand mining on freshwater ecosystems…
Increasingly, there are media reports about the negative environmental and social impacts of sand mining, and as calls grow for stronger regulation of mining (Schandl et al., 2016), there is a need to understand the scientific evidence of mining impacts to underpin management. Impacts of sand mining on rivers may be direct or …
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