how does the indiscriminate exploration of minerals resources affect the environment
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The indiscriminate usage of mineral resources and it's continuous exploitation can lead to various environmental problems, and they are:
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- Mining leads to the clearance of large surface area, and most of the time it is the forested areas, therefore it causes deforestation.
- Mining leads to the destruction of the fertile top layer of the soil, and afterwards the soil becomes unsuitable for agricultural purposes.
- Minings in particular areas causes habitat loss and that's why large amount of flora and fauna are lost, and it also has adverse affect on the ecology of the area.
- Mining leads to various types of pollution. The smoke or dust is the major source of air pollution.
- It also causes water pollution because the nearby water bodies becomes contaminated with different types of elemental wastes.
- It causes land pollution because the wastes produced by them makes the soil contaminated and makes it unfit for agricultural purposes as most of the plants cannot grow on such lands.
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