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S. Korea dune merchant, 72, held over sand mining in Indonesia …

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Sand mining activities along the banks of the Begawan Solo River have led to many negative environmental impacts in the region, from noise pollution to infrastructure damage to dangerous riverbank erosion. ... the Secretary of the Environmental Study and Advocacy Institute (eL-SAL INDONESIA) which studies the social, economic, and …

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Even so, sand remains an understudied commodity, with journalists (e.g., Beiser, 2018) and activist groups (e.g., Mother Nature, Sand Stories, Asienhaus) playing a significant role in highlighting particular cases, including deaths associated with the criminal nature of sand mining in India (Mahadevan, 2019), rampant sand mining in …

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Basic Statistic Production volume of sand in Indonesia 2012-2022 ... China's mining industry Mining industry in Japan

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Sand Mining: A Silent Threat to the River Ecosystem

2.1 Civil Construction: The Major Driver of Sand Mining. Any country's economic growth has a major impact on reducing poverty, and this is especially true for infrastructure development. The cost of labor and raw materials determines the majority of building costs (Yue et al., 2019).Sand and aggregate are the most frequently and widely utilized raw …

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