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How mining is responsible for land degradation? Ch1 Geo
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Yogita Ingle 6 years, 8 months ago

(i) Mining sites are abandoned after excavation work is completed leaving deep scars and traces of over burdening.
(ii) In states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa deforestation due to mining have caused severe land degradation.
(iii) In the states of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, over irrigation is responsible for degradation due to water logging leading to increase in salinity and alkalinity in the soil.
(iv) The Mineral processing like grinding of limestone for cement industry and calcite and soapstone for ceramic industry generate large quantity of dust in the atmosphere.
(v) It retards the process of infiltration of water into the soil.

Anjali Verma 6 years, 8 months ago

Mining is responsible for land degradation because during mining people dig the land to extract the resource and then they left it without filling it .
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