Mining becomes problematic and dangerous, when methods employed pose a danger to the land,
the water bodies, and the very lives of the people. Mining becomes a danger to the society
when, after extracting the gold, diamond, or other stones and minerals, the land is left
degraded and poisoned with toxic materials, the water bodies are turned into entities that
can no longer support life, and plants and fish cannot survive in our rivers. Mining
becomes a danger to the society, when the sites are abandoned, leaving behind craters
filled with mercury and other poisons, which cannot support anymore fauna or plant life.
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