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Can smart policies solve the sand mining problem?

Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank (San Francisco, Ca. : PLOS, 2021)

While sand has become a scarce essential resource for construction and land reclamation worldwide, its extraction causes severe ecological damage and high social costs. To derive policy solutions to this paramount global ...
Contamination Assessment of Toxic Elements in River Sediments from Baia Mare, Romania—Extreme Pollution from Mining Activities

Bereș, Ioan; Maftei, Andreea Elena; Dill, Harald G.; Buzatu, Andrei; Damian, Gheorghe (Basel : MDPI, 2024)

Sediment samples from the Săsar River and its main tributaries were analyzed for their potentially toxic elements at the site of the Romplumb metallurgical company and near the well-known Pb-Zn-Cu epithermal deposit of ...
Sand mining in the Mekong Delta revisited - current scales of local sediment deficits

Jordan, Christian; Tiede, Jan; Lojek, Oliver; Visscher, Jan; Apel, Heiko; Nguyen, Hong Quan; Quang, Chau Nguyen Xuan; Schlurmann, Torsten (London : Nature Publishing Group, 2019)

The delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam has been heavily impacted by anthropogenic stresses in recent years, such as upstream dam construction and sand mining within the main and distributary channels, leading to riverbank ...

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