State three ways in which open cast mining affect the environment.
State three ways in which open cast mining affect the environment. (3 mks)
- it causes land dereliction which causes the land to lose its natural beauty.
- it causes the loss of productivity when loose soils, deficient of nutrients are left which cannot support agriculture
- mining exposing the land to agents of erosion hence rendering the land unproductive
- it leads to loss of biodiversity
- it causes harm to people and organisms when they drown in deep ponds caused open cast
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