While it's one thing to engage audiences on the ethics of mining activities on a hypothetical planet in the distant future, it's quite another to connect this back to the present.
The aim of this study was to analysis the quality of water resources and to investigate the influences of mining activities on water quality around the Maddhapara Granite Mining area, Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
A paper published in 2010 by Science of the Total Environment, a journal, discussed the impact of mining activities on the surface water in the valley, including on streams that feed the Lhasa River.
This paper explores the influence of mining activities on towns in Ghana in order to appreciate their political economy and implications for urban planning.
G. Espinosa-Reyes et al. assessed the impact of mining activities on biotic communities within the District of Villa de la Paz in Mexico.
The aim of this paper was to assess the impact of mining activities on biotic communities within the district of Villa de la Paz.
Regarding the effects of mining activities on plant communities, the presence of different concentration levels of metals such as Cd, Cu, Se, and Zn in soil and water has been reported and is known to reduce the diversity and abundance in plant communities [ 32, 33].
Based on principal component analysis on surface water PC1 is interpreted to represent the influence of mining activity on the levels of these heavy metals in the study area.
The scattered monitoring system of ground deformations and damages to industrial objects, apartment buildings and housing estates can be used for observation of mining activity on the surface.
Under Mineral Concession Rules, 1960, it is required to specify the area indicating impact of mining activity on forest, land and environment, scheme for restoration of the area by afforestation, adoption of pollution control devices.
