Pollutants released from processing plants, tailing ponds, underground mines, waste-disposal areas, active or abandoned surface or haulage roads, etc.
Sediments released through soil erosion cause siltation or the smothering of stream beds. It adversely impacts irrigation, swimming, fishing, domestic water supply, and other activities dependent on such water bodies. High concentrations of toxic chemicals in water bodies pose a survival threat to aquatic flora and fauna and terrestrial species dependent on them for food. The acidic water released from metal mines or coal mines also drains into surface water or seeps below ground to acidify groundwater.
The loss of normal pH of water can have disastrous effects on life sustained by such water. The creation of landscape blots like open pits and piles of waste rocks due to mining operations can lead to the physical destruction of the land at the mining site. Such disruptions can contribute to the deterioration of the area's flora and fauna.
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Introduction I have spent many years working at the interface between the environment, both natural and built, and health, in both general medical family practice and in community-focussed public health practice e. Insight 1—as an ordinary man First of all, I discovered that it is not possible to ignore the impact of mining on daily living.
Insight 3—a public health doctor The World Health Organisation has described health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity WHO Full size image. Insight 5—a lay preacher The Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation have been chastised for, on the one hand, funding health services while, on the other, investing in fossil fuel companies whose mining operations may have a profound and adverse effect on the local communities Smith and Carrington We all have a part to play in that.
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