Mining Impacts · impact
Land clearance and deforestation
Land · During operation
- Mitigation
- Routing and access control, offsets and set-asides agreed before the road is built, and progressive rehabilitation of worked-out ground.
- Category
- Land
- Timescale
- During operation
Mechanism
The mine footprint is only part of it: access roads, power lines, camps and the settlement that follows open ground that was previously hard to reach, and in forest the clearance that follows the road usually exceeds the clearance for the mine.
Where
Open pitPlacerArtisanalQuarry
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