Illegal gold mining activities contribute tremendously to the local economy of the communities within which the practice is conducted.
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Get priceView Topic 2_Environmental Impacts of Mining.pdf from NARE 457 at Egerton University. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MINING The scale and nature of contemporary mining activities invariably leads to 1 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MINING The scale and nature of contemporary mining activities invariably leads to changes in the surrounding environment.
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Get price· Mining affects fresh water through heavy use of water in processing ore, and through water pollution from discharged mine effluent and seepage from tailings and waste rock impoundments. Increasingly, human activities such as mining threaten the water sources
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Get price326 Environmental Impacts of Illegal Small-Scale Mining Activities on the Aboabo Stream, Ahafo Region, Ghana 1B. A. E. Boafo, 1B. Koomson and 1O. F. Agyemang 1Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Boafo, B. A. E
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