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  2. Illegal mining - Wikipedia

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    Illegal mining is mining activity that is undertaken without state permission. Illegal mining is the extraction of precious metals without following the proper procedures to participate in legal mining activity. These procedures include permits and licenses for exploration of the land, mining and transportation. [1]

  3. Environmental impact of mining - Wikipedia

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    Legal mining, albeit more environmentally-controlled than illegal mining, contributes to some substantial percentage to the deforestation of tropical countries. [86] [87] Open-pit nickel mining has led to environmental degradation and pollution in developing countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia.

  4. Sand smuggling in Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Sand smuggling is the cross-border environmental crime [1] of illegal transportation of often illegally extracted natural sand and gravel. [2] While sand smuggling and illegal mining are global concerns, they are especially acute in Asia, where continuing urbanization and the region’s large construction boom are driving the increasing demand for sand. [3]

  5. Police destroy illegal mining operations in one of Peru's ...

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    Police destroyed illegal gold mining operations in La Pampa last week in one of the biggest operations the government has launched since 2014.

  6. Sand mining - Wikipedia

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    Sand theft or unauthorised or illegal sand mining leads to a generally unknown global example of natural and non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity. [28] [29] [30] Beach theft is illegal removal of large quantities of sand from a beach leading to full or partial disappearance of the beach. In ...

  7. Orinoco Mining Arc - Wikipedia

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    The Orinoco Mining Arc (OMA), is a resource-rich area in Venezuela that has become a hub for illegal mining. It was opened to development in February 2016 as the "Orinoco Mining Arc National Strategic Development Zone", [ 1 ] and has been operating since 2017; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Orinoco Mining Arc covers 12.2% of Venezuelan territory with an area ...

  8. Sand theft - Wikipedia

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    Sand theft or unauthorised or illegal sand mining leads to a generally unknown global example of natural and non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity. [1] [2] [3] Beach theft is illegal removal of large quantities of sand from a beach leading to full or partial disappearance of the beach. In India ...

  9. 10 Hard Math Problems That Even the Smartest People in the ...

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    Here’s another problem that’s very easy to write, but hard to solve. All you need to recall is the definition of rational numbers. Rational numbers can be written in the form p/q, where p and ...