The Horror after the Hole

The Solutions Journal examines the never-ending horrors that await communities after the mega mining companies have dug their open pit, extracted the minerals they came for, and left to find the next target....

Mineral solid waste accounts for the largest proportion of total global industrial waste production, and mining often generates toxic by-products ranging from heavy metals to process chemicals like cyanide. The effects of these wastes may persist long after mine closure and abandonment, requiring long-term care and maintenance.¹ Under pressure from governments and environmental groups in recent decades, the industry has begun to address these considerable and controversial legacies of extractive development.^{2,3
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