In Indonesia, mining efforts resulted in 10% of the national forest environmental damage. Open pit mining methods (open pit)
gold mining rain forest to change the barren desert and died, where there is no plants can live there. Law regulations
Indonesia No. 41 out 1999 prohibits such open mining in protected forests is 90% but it was his own open-pit mining in protected forests do.
Besides causing the loss of forest areas, erosion and waste from mining waste the rest of the particle and makes the river became muddy and brown.
Moreover, mercury used in the process to form a gold mining into streams, killing fish and other wildlife.
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