Consequences of mining

@sweet-honey-areuMs • Oct 25, 2024

Oct 25, 2024

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Day before yesterday, many places in M.P. experienced earthquake of intensity upto 5.
I also felt my bed and tv shaking.. The reason said is the mining going on at nearby places.
Today I saw the place where stone mining is done. It was looking as an odd land surrounded by the green land(due to grass). The mining leaves the land hollow which becomes the reason for the earthquakes.😔
Seeing the mined land personally I was left behind with the thought that what happens of the land after mining?!😲

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Oct 19, 2012

Trouble started when humans began messing up with the nature. Nature itself has its own plan that no one can change. Mining may not really cause earthquakes, but I can see a possibility of things going 'more wrong' with large mines in place; especially during the earthquakes.
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sweet_honey

@sweet-honey-areuMs • Oct 19, 2012

The_Big_K
Nature itself has its own plan that no one can change.
Then what happens of the land dug out? Is there any natural process of filling these lands?
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Jeffrey Arulraj

@jeffrey-xA7lUP • Oct 21, 2012

sweet_honey
Then what happens of the land dug out? Is there any natural process of filling these lands?
The answer is a big disgusting NO in the case of underground tunnels the walls ot the tunnels are covered with concrete but the rest is like a hollow cylinder of some diameter

Never is a mine closed up as we continue to dig and dig till we drain it out completely. This I doubt has ever been reached in any place
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sweet_honey

@sweet-honey-areuMs • Oct 22, 2012

#-Link-Snipped-# as u said underground tunnels are covered with concrete but the mines are not... I just have the doubt that what happens of that portion of the land?

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Jeffrey Arulraj

@jeffrey-xA7lUP • Oct 23, 2012

They are left hollow We can't refill acres of land underground
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sweet_honey

@sweet-honey-areuMs • Oct 24, 2012

jeffrey samuel
They are left hollow
That's d saddest part...😔
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Jeffrey Arulraj

@jeffrey-xA7lUP • Oct 24, 2012

Why so #-Link-Snipped-#? 😕

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sweet_honey

@sweet-honey-areuMs • Oct 25, 2012

jeffrey samuel
Why so #-Link-Snipped-#? 😕
Because upto my knowledge these hollow places cause landslides and then earthquakes..

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Jeffrey Arulraj

@jeffrey-xA7lUP • Oct 25, 2012

Yeah true in the longer run
But that serving as a cause of earth quake is too much Fissures over 100 s of miles take a very long time to trigger one massive earth quake.

And if you look deeper the tunnels are not exactly horizontal drilled caves of over a mile this can not trigger a massive earth quake

But land slide is due to another reason if the whole cave is water logged then due to abrasive nature of water the surfaces get weakened and causes a depression where the tunnels roof caves in
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manishks

@manishks-AZybhs • Oct 25, 2012

mining causes surrounding soil to become loose! Hence more prone to landslides.
Land becomes unfertile.
River, rains, wind etc helps in filling up these hollow land with the eroded soil. North indian plain is one of the best example which was once a hollow land formed after collision of gondwana land with eurasian plate. This collision also resulted in grand himalayan range. But the northern plains was formed in millions of years by eroded soil brought by mainly river. Hence north india is one of the most fertile land.
But hollow land formed after mining is formed due to act of humans not nature. If humans fail to fill this land, it would take many years to get filled by natural process. Till then it is nothing but a waste land. That place is not even habitable.!!
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