Environmental effects and mitigation measures of mine pollution

In Kim

Abstract

Mining activities, including prospecting, investigation, development, activity, upkeep, extension, deserting, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can affect social and ecological frameworks in a scope of positive and negative, and immediate and roundabout ways. Mining can yield a scope of advantages to social orders, yet it might likewise cause struggle, not least according to over the ground and sub-surface land use. So also, mining can modify conditions, however remediation and moderation can re-establish frameworks. Boreal and Arctic areas are sensitive to impacts from development, both on social and ecological frameworks. Local biological systems and native human networks are commonly influenced by numerous stressors, including environmental change and contamination (1).

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