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INDIA AND BHUTAN
The serenity is no longer there but the effects of mining at Pugli hills around Gomtu across the Indian Border for Dolomite is already showing. Landslides and erosion in Darjeeling has exposed at least 14 tea estates to flooding. The sediments are turning the soil alkaline and the tea bushes suffer caking from the mine dust. With animals seriously affected due to deteriorated drinking water, the forest officials are clamoring for reclamation and restoration of forest cover.
Millions could suffer     

TIBET AND NEIGHBORS
The arrival of trains at Lhasa signaled industrial activity and the untapped huge deposits of gold, copper, chromites, natural gas is drawing global attention. Unfortunately high concentrates of poisonous arsenic, mercury and cyanide and the possibility of poisonous residues reaching any of the major Asian rivers like Yangtze, Yellow River, Brahmaputra or Mekong could spell disaster and calls for caution.

GREENLAND
Black Angel mine in Greenland brings into focus the effects of global warming. One of the richest zinc mines of the world, it shipping season is eight months against the earlier six months and in the future could well be all year round. The exposure of rocks due to retreating glaciers bring in possibilities for mining engineers and exploration team never thought before.
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INDIA- NIYAMGIRI HILLS, ORISSA
Niyamgiri Hill is one of the most important biodiversity systems of Eastern Ghats in India and the alumina refinery closer to the hills is drawing serious concern among the local community and environmentalists. The home of wildlife, several species of medicinal plants and  birds could well disappear it is feared. The hills receive abundant rainfall and is the home of many perennial rivers and streams.
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"If it can't be grown, it has to be mined"

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