Sand Mining in Tanjung Puting National Park, IndonesiaRobert YappiBirute GaldikasLeslie Smith
While the impacts of sand mining are widespread, Peduzzi said there are solutions to this issue. For instance, industries can try to minimize the wastage of sand and other resources and recycle materials. Additionally, companies can dredge in a more “natural shape” in the marine environment an...
in illegal sand mining. on indonesia's island of bali, far inland from the tourist beaches, i visit a sand mining area. it looks like shangri-la after a meteor strike. smack in the middle of a beautiful valley winding between verdant mountains, surrounded by jungle and rice paddies, is ...
Curbing sand-mining is difficult because so much of it is unregulated. Only about two-fifths of the sand extracted worldwide every year is thought to be traded legally, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. In Shangha...
Henan Yuhui Mining Machinery Co, Ltd. is located in Zhengzhou city in central plains, which adjoins to ancient millennium Shaolin Temple (Kung fu Origin) to the south, and Yellow River to the north. With Kailuo highway and Longhai railway, it owns convenient transportation and ...
referred to as sand mining – has increased rapidly over the past two decades, largely driven by growth in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in China but also increasingly in India. Astonishingly, China consumed more sand between 2011–2013 than the US did in the whole of the 20th ...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 (Xinhua) -- A sand mining vessel capsized Wednesday in the waters off Malaysia in the Malacca Strait, leaving at least one dead and 14 crew members missing, said the Malaysian coast guard. There were 18 crew members on the vessel, including one Malaysian, one Indones...
Illegal sand mining has destroyed dozens of islands surrounding Indonesia and has also resulted in the formation of organisations like the “Sand Mafia”, one of India’s biggest criminal organisations. Designers like Ryswyck and Sterk are on a quest to prove that there are other sources of sand...
Systematic mining in Nigeria started in 1903 after the colonial government commissioned mineral surveys of the Southern and Northern protectorates [1]. The discovery of marketable crude oil after years of neglect set back the mining sector in Nigeria. As part of efforts to position the mining secto...
[21,22]. Local mining of black sand at Induk beach in Indonesia, taken for its superior quality in producing ornaments, has led to increased beach erosion reducing fishing capabilities, severely impacting the subsistence lifestyle of the local population [23]. The activities of so-called ‘sand...