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Urban areas (including civil buildings in the capital Grozny), villages, roads, fields, woods, mountain paths, bridges, and rivers were mined. Eighty percent of minefields were unmarked. The most heavily mined areas are those in which rebels continue to put up resistance, namely the southern regions, and the borders of Chechnya.
A total of 1,230.70 km 2 (2.4% of the country's territory) was mined. [2] The next year, in May 2014, extensive landslides and the worst flooding since the 19th century unearthed landmines, prompting authorities to send in de-mining workers to locate and deactivate mines that were threatening residential areas which had already been deemed ...
Only two of Afghanistan's twenty-nine provinces are believed to be free of landmines. The most heavily mined provinces are Herat and Kandahar. [31] Since 1989, nearly 44,000 Afghan civilians have been recorded to have been killed or injured by landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) averaging to around 110 people per month.
The invasion has turned Ukraine into the world's most heavily mined country, according to a February 2024 estimate by the United Nations and the Ukrainian government. ... (53,784 square miles) of ...
An important mining area was the Kinzig valley and its side valleys. The small mining settlement of Wittichen near Schenkenzell in the upper Kinzig valley had many pits from which miners dug baryte, cobalt and silver of many kinds. A circular, geological footpath runs today past the old pits and tips.
The region of Nagorno-Karabakh and areas around it are considered to be some of the most heavily mined regions of the former Soviet Union.Mines were laid from the early 1990s by both Azerbaijani and Armenian forces during and after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
‘It’s gonna get expensive’ There is a lot of mined land in Eastern Kentucky that could be developed. Coal companies have surface-mined an estimated 1.5 million acres of land in Central ...
Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Duluth) on Wednesday re-introduced a bill that would erase mining protections for a large area of Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.. The ...