Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining …
This study was carried out to determine the environmental effects of sand and gravel mining in Luku, North central Nigeria, using field observations and laboratory analysis of soil samples.
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Surface Water Quality Evaluation and Health …
environment. Lawal (2011) stated that sand mining in Nigeria is an activity that is rapidly becoming an ecological problem as demand for gravel and sand increases. If speedy interventions take place, this will create more water resource problem beyond control. Therefore, this work examined the water characteristics in highly
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Sustaining urbanization while undermining sustainability: the …
Sand and gravel mining is a source of revenue for the government in form of mining lease, ... Firstly, there is paucity of research on the socio-environmental aspects of coastal sand mining in Nigeria. Even when many studies in Nigeria have examined the inherent issues in sand mining activities generally (for example Ahiadu & Ahove, ...
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Effects of Sand/Gravel Mining in Minna Emirate Area of …
The sand/gravel mining activities in the emirate began to as sume an enormous dimension at the tail end of the last millennium when the civilian administration at the national level threw open the ...
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Environmental Impacts of Sand Mining in Some Coastal …
Sand mining activity is one of the serious environmental problems, as the rivers are widely exploited for river bed materials like sand resulting in land and river bed degradation as well as loss ...
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Impacts of Sand and Gravel Quarrying on the Stream …
Lu et al. [15] investigated sand and gravel mining in the upstream of the Yangtze River and its effects on the three gorge reservoirs, and analyzed the effects of sand and gravel mining on the ...
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The environmental impacts of river sand mining
Ako et al. (2014) conducted a qualitative study assessing the impact of sand and gravel mining in Luku, North central Nigeria. They found concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, nickel, arsenic, cadmium, silver, copper and mercury in soil samples taken from mined locations that were (too) high.
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Sustainable natural resources exploitation: Clay/sand mining …
The main focus of this study was to map the sand /clay sites in Uruezi-Egbema, Nigeria, and to investigate the effects of four legally active clay (two) and sand (two) mining …
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Effects of Sand/Gravel Mining in Minna Emirate Area of Nigeria …
The paper examined sand and gravel mining activities both on land and the rivers as a business venture in Minna emirate council of Niger state, Nigeria. It identified various stakeholders in this business as: the landlords of the quarries, the local government authorities and the miners among others.
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Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land …
DOI: 10.12691/JGG-2-2-1 Corpus ID: 52261379; Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land and Soil in Luku, Minna, Niger State, North Central Nigeria @inproceedings{Ako2014EnvironmentalEO, title={Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land and Soil in Luku, Minna, Niger State, North Central Nigeria}, author={Thomas …
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Effects of Sand/Gravel Mining in Minna Emirate Area of Nigeria …
Sand/gravel mining generates extra vehicle traffic, which negatively impairs the environment. Where access roads cross riparian areas, the local environment may be impacted upon. Excessive in-stream sand-and-gravel mining causes the degradation of rivers.
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(PDF) Environmental Impact of Sand and Gravel Mining in …
In Luku area of North Central Nigeria, sand and gravel mining has been going on at a large scale. Results of field work shows that destruction of landscape, deforestation, water pollution, loss …
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Effects of Sand/Gravel Mining in Minna Emirate …
Sand/gravel mining generates extra vehicle traffic, which negatively impairs the environment. Where access roads cross riparian areas, the local environment may be impacted upon. Excessive in-stream sand-and-gravel mining causes …
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River Sand Mining and Its Ecological Footprint at Odor River, Nigeria …
River sand mining has consequential ecological footprints on rivers, floodplains and deltas by changing the slope of the riverbed, alteration to in stream habitats, erosion, loss of riverside vegetation, water pollution, loss of adjoining …
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Introduction to Sand Mining Activity | SpringerLink
Sand mining is probably the largest mining activity and the most profitable extractive economic activity in the world as have been shown by 'tales of sand rush' in American and Mexican Gulf (Collins & Dunne, 1989).After air and water sand is probably the next most exploited materials in the world (UNEP, 2019; Aliu et al., 2022).When bound with cement and …
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Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on …
90 Luku is located in North Central Nigeria and sand and gravel mining is currently taking place there because 91 the place is a very attractive source for these materials. The area is easily accessible and the materials are easy 92 and cheap to extract by the miners. Mining of these materials in the area is being carried out without any
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The environmental impacts of river sand mining
Ako et al. (2014) conducted a qualitative study assessing the impact of sand and gravel mining in Luku, North central Nigeria. They found concentrations of heavy metals such …
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Socio-economic impacts of sand and gravel mining
This work studied the socio-economic impacts of sand and gravel mining activities in Nsugbe, Anambra State Nigeria. The work is hinged on the concept of sustainable development. …
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Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on …
A., "Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land and Soil in Luku, Minna, Niger State, North Central Nigeria." Journal of Geosciences and Geomatics, vol. 2, no. 2 (2014): 42-49. doi: 10.12691/jgg-2-2-1. 1. Introduction . Sand and gravel mining refers to the process of removing sand or gravel from a place of its occurrence [1].
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Sustainable natural resources exploitation: Clay/sand mining …
The main focus of this study was to map the sand /clay sites in Uruezi-Egbema, Nigeria, and to investigate the effects of four legally active clay (two) and sand (two) mining sites on green security and climate risks.
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Effects of Sand/Gravel Mining in Minna Emirate Area of …
The paper examined sand and gravel mining activities both on land and the rivers as a business venture in Minna emirate council of Niger state, Nigeria. It identified various …
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Socio-economic impacts of sand and gravel mining
This work studied the socio-economic impacts of sand and gravel mining activities in Nsugbe, Anambra State Nigeria. The work is hinged on the concept of sustainable development. Questionnaire was randomly administered to generate the data used.
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Effects of Sand/Gravel Mining in Minna Emirate …
The paper examined sand and gravel mining activities both on land and the rivers as a business venture in Minna emirate council of Niger …
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Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land …
This study was carried out to determine the environmental effects of sand and gravel mining in Luku, North central Nigeria, using field observations and laboratory analysis of soil samples.
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(PDF) Environmental Impact of Sand and Gravel Mining in Luku, Nigeria
In Luku area of North Central Nigeria, sand and gravel mining has been going on at a large scale. Results of field work shows that destruction of landscape, deforestation, water pollution, loss of farm and grazing lands and the collapse of river banks are the physical environmental impacts associated with mining of these materials in the area.
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Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land …
In Luku area of North Central Nigeria, sand and gravel mining has been going on at a large scale. Results of field work shows that destruction of landscape, deforestation, water pollution, loss of farm and grazing lands and the collapse of river banks are the physical environmental impacts associated with mining of these materials in the area.
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Environmental Effects of Sand and Gravel Mining on Land …
In Luku area of North Central Nigeria, sand and gravel mining has been going on at a large scale. Results of field work shows that destruction of landscape, deforestation, water pollution, loss of farm and grazing lands and the collapse of river banks are the physical environmental impacts …
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River Sand Mining and Its Ecological Footprint at Odor River, …
River sand mining has consequential ecological footprints on rivers, floodplains and deltas by changing the slope of the riverbed, alteration to in stream habitats, erosion, loss …
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(PDF) Dynamics and Impacts of Sand Mining in …
Diagram of sand-and-gravel stream bed showing (A) the nick point that develops with a pit excavation, and (B) the upstream head cutting and downstream bed degradation that develop during high ...
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Effects of Sand/Gravel Mining in Minna Emirate Area of Nigeria …
The paper examined sand and gravel mining activities both on land and the rivers as a business venture in Minna emirate council of Niger state, Nigeria. It identified various stakeholders in this business as: the landlords of the quarries, the local government authorities and the miners among others. It further looked at what each stakeholder stands to gain or lose …
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