What are the negative effects of open cast mining on the environment?

      

Discuss the negative effects of open cast mining on the environment.

  

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Maurice
(i) Large scale blasting of rocks leads to instability of the basement rocks. Water collects in the hallows left by open cast mines creating ponds which becomes habitats for disease causing organisms.

(ii) The land is left with gaping quarries, which ugly, interfere with the natural beauty of the landscape.

(iii) It interferes with natural vegetation, which is cleared before extraction of the mineral begins to take time to generate.

(iv) The heap of rock waste creates a landscape that is expensive to rehabilitate.

(v) The dust produced during the mining pollutes the atmosphere.

(vi) Open cast mining causes shortage of land/hinders agriculture.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 10, 2017 at 13:02


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