Prepare a report on the hazards and environmental impact of mining impact in the coalfields, especially the state of Jharkhand
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Mining is extraction of valuable minerals or geological materials from the earth normally from an ore body/vein or (coal) seam. Materials found by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale and potash.
Any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes or created artificially in a laboratory/factory is normally mined.
Mining: The process of extracting minerals that are non renewable. These minerals have great benefits but also have various hazards and environmental impacts.
Eg:
Coal
In the state of Jharkhand, mining of coal is done extensively and so it has resulted in polluting the environment.
Mining of coal has various disadvantages:.
Environmental impact and hazards:
- Degradation of land
- Water pollution
- Loss of biodiversity
- Polluted damodar river
- People cannot take bath everyday
- No safe drinking water
- Increase in the number of deaths
- Malaria breakout due to stagnant mining water
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