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by Dharmendra Kapri | 06-08-2015 00:57
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In the rock underlying rainforests, there lies a wealth of natural resources in the form of minerals and precious metals such as gold, silver, diamonds, gemstones, bauxite (used to make aluminium), tin, copper, lead and even coal!!
To get at them, people have to create mines, which not only destroy the rainforest but also cause other big problems like erosion of the weak forest soils and sometimes the poisoning of water supplies with heavy metals like mercury, which is used in the process of extracting gold.! The mercury poisons creatures in the rivers and the people and animals that drink the water.! Mercury can build up in the food chain so larger animals such as otters that may eat a lot of fish will have larger amounts of mercury in their bodies.!! Some 9,000 tonnes of mercury was washed into Brazil?s rivers during the Pala State gold rush of the 1980s.! Where soil is eroded by the rain, it is washed into the rivers, which gradually clogs them up, making flooding more likely.
Large areas of forest in Indonesia are protected by law against any prospecting or open cast mining, although new rules do allow underground mining in protected areas.! Once roads are built to reach the mines, it becomes easier for illegal logging and poaching to take place. |
 
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Former E-gen Ambassador
Dharmendra Kapri
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5 Comments
Dharmendra this must be curtailed. Thanks for reporting. Mining is anyway no longer an environmentally viable industry.
Posted 07-08-2015 02:55
Extracting valuable minerals by mining the rainforests is not a sustainable solution. Extracting these natural resources is frequently a destructive activity as toxic compounds are used generated in the mining process that damages the rainforest ecosystem and causes problems for people living nearby and downstream from mining operations. Thanks for the report , Dharmendra.
Posted 07-08-2015 01:00
It is already time to figure out a way to severely stop mining. Thanks for the report mate! =)
Posted 06-08-2015 12:17
Thanks for reporting. Govt. & Industries must go hand in hand to solve this impasse. Rain forests must be preserved at all costs.
Posted 06-08-2015 03:09
For the extraction of metals,we humans are destroying our nature and its inhabitants.Mining as we know is a problem and causes damage to rain forests in many ways.There should be some limit to excessive mines.Thanks for the report!
Posted 06-08-2015 02:43