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Sand Mining & Ecosystems

Sand Mining & Ecosystems

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Grade Level Grades 6-8
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Life lesson here. What’s the impact on the planet and society when a user of natural resources only takes resources for profit and fails to reinvest in restoring what they’ve impacted? Everyone loses. The planet, society, ecosystems and even the company end up being losers. What’s the solution? For an industrial sand mining operation it begins with a comprehensive environmental study that becomes part of their mine reclamation plan that should consider all the abiotic and biotic factors that may be impacted by mining.

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