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    The document discusses the environmental impacts of mining activities and ways mines can reduce these impacts. It provides a table to summarize how mining affects air, water, land, energy, and waste management. Mining increases dust and pollutants in the air. It draws down water tables and reduces water available to other users. Mining also causes erosion, sinkholes, biodiversity loss, and soil/water contamination. To reduce impacts, mines can implement air and water management plans, divert surface water, and use alternative energy sources and sustainable equipment.

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    The document discusses the environmental impacts of mining activities and ways mines can reduce these impacts. It provides a table to summarize how mining affects air, water, land, energy, and waste management. Mining increases dust and pollutants in the air. It draws down water tables and reduces water available to other users. Mining also causes erosion, sinkholes, biodiversity loss, and soil/water contamination. To reduce impacts, mines can implement air and water management plans, divert surface water, and use alternative energy sources and sustainable equipment.

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    The document discusses the environmental impacts of mining activities and ways mines can reduce these impacts. It provides a table to summarize how mining affects air, water, land, energy, and waste management. Mining increases dust and pollutants in the air. It draws down water tables and reduces water available to other users. Mining also causes erosion, sinkholes, biodiversity loss, and soil/water contamination. To reduce impacts, mines can implement air and water management plans, divert surface water, and use alternative energy sources and sustainable equipment.

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    EarthSci LearningAct M6 Belarmino&Macarubbo

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    The document discusses the environmental impacts of mining activities and ways mines can reduce these impacts. It provides a table to summarize how mining affects air, water, land, energy, and waste management. Mining increases dust and pollutants in the air. It draws down water tables and reduces water available to other users. Mining also causes erosion, sinkholes, biodiversity loss, and soil/water contamination. To reduce impacts, mines can implement air and water management plans, divert surface water, and use alternative energy sources and sustainable equipment.

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    EARTH SCIENCE (CORSBJ10)

    Module 6

    Gr
    Name/s: Ayesha Faye M. Belarmino & Juliana A. ade: 11 - BFO
    Macarubbo
    Teacher: Christopher Allan Reballos Strand: STEM

    Worksheet 4
    IMPACT OF MINING
    Directions: Identify how mines affect the environment and investigate ways to reducing the
    impact. This is comparing a diagram showing activities at a mine site and a table to be
    completed. Use the table to summarize environmental impacts of the mine and actions at the
    mine to reduce these impacts.
    EARTH SCIENCE (CORSBJ10)
    Module 6

    Look closely at the impacts in the diagram of a mine site and consider the features and
    activities that could affect on the environment (air, water, land, energy and waste
    management). List these in the table below.

    Consider which features at the mine site could reduce these impacts. List these in the last
    column of the table.

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    Mining activities that may
    Actions taken at the mine to
    Aspects of environment have impact on the
    reduce the impact
    environment
    Hundreds of tons of rock are We should do the air
    unearthed, moved, and management plan or
    crushed in mining operations technique aerial seeding to
    significantly increasing the the place that is exposed to
    amount of dust and air pollutions.
    Air particulates in the air. In
    addition, mine tailings, which
    may contain finely ground
    and even toxic waste, can
    become airborne. This air
    pollution can directly affect
    human health.
    Mines that go beneath the We need to do everything
    water table are dewatered by possible to protect our water
    pumping, which draws-down resource and ensure that no
    the water table in the harm comes to society as a
    surrounding landscape. This result of contaminated water.
    can reduce the water And the mining industry
    available to other users and needs to implement these
    Water reduce the discharge to necessary water treatment
    streams and other and saving processes like,
    groundwater-dependent diverting runoff water to
    ecosystems. prevent contamination of
    nearby water sources and
    implement a constant water
    management system both
    during and long after all
    mining efforts on the site in
    order to do so.
    Mining can result in erosion, Reduce the input of the
    sinkholes, loss of mine. By diverting surface
    biodiversity, or the water and pumping
    contamination of soil, groundwater, mines can
    Land groundwater, and surface reduce both the quantity and
    water by the chemicals quality of water available
    emitted from mining downstream for aquatic
    processes. ecosystems and other use.
    Plus, the water will not leak
    so that the land will not
    become soft to prevent
    sinkholes.
    Mining practices release When it comes to energy, a
    greenhouse gases like mining company can look
    methane and carbon dioxide into alternative energy

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    Energy into our atmosphere. sources such as solar or
    wind power. By reducing the
    energy usage, a mine can
    reduce greenhouse gases.
    The specific environmental Management, mines can
    impact of waste depends look at using sustainable
    heavily on the materials equipment. They should use
    composition, type of ore the equipment used that is
    mined, and the way the ore environmentally friendly.
    Waste Management is processed. For example,
    gangue and tailings from
    mining heavy metals could
    have a high concentration of
    sulfides which could cause
    acid rock drainage to occur.

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