How Does Mining affect the health of miners ?
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They are many effects of many such as erosion,loss of biodiversity and even surface water by the chemicals by the mining process.
◆even the contamination results in the effects of the health of the miners.
The primary impacts of mining on the environment are-
✍️Mining requires the clearing of large parts of land. Often, the area is completely deforested.
Along with deforestation, mining activities require transportation facilities. Construction of roads can cause serious habitat fragmentation.
✍️The noise caused by mining activities contributes to immense noise pollution in the vicinity.
✍️Dust coming from mine sites can cause air pollution.
✍️The dust from mine sites can seriously affect vegetation around the area by coating the leaves and preventing exchange of air. The plants can even be suffocated to death due to this.
✍️Open-cast mining is more dangerous to the environment than deep mining, because huge amounts of land and soil is excavated. This causes loss of precious soil.
✍️Land degradation goes hand in hand with mining, because the land used cannot be used for anything else for many years to come.
The waste products of mines (called mine spoils) are simply dumped in a place nearby. ✍️These spoils are often toxic and can cause serious water pollution, groundwater contamination, kill soil organisms, cause biomagnification, etc.
✍️After mining is over, the land is left as barren land.