Zolotitsa: How Diamond Mining Threatens the Ecological Conditions of a River Region : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 2014, no. 8: Zolotitsa: How Diamond Mining Threatens the Ecological Conditions of a River Region

The river Zolotitsa is located in what is now Arkhangelsk province and flows into the White Sea. In 1980, geologists discovered a diamond deposit 100 kilometers north of Arkhangelsk, at a bend in the Zolotitsa river. Open-pit mining began in 2005. This led to a severe transformation of the landscape...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalemeneva, Ekaterina
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2014
Subjects:
Resources
Landscape Transformation
ecosystems
diamonds
mining
rivers
White Sea
Zolotitsa
Arkhangelsk
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5393
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5393/
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Summary:The river Zolotitsa is located in what is now Arkhangelsk province and flows into the White Sea. In 1980, geologists discovered a diamond deposit 100 kilometers north of Arkhangelsk, at a bend in the Zolotitsa river. Open-pit mining began in 2005. This led to a severe transformation of the landscape and is threatening to destroy the ecosystem of the upper Zolotitsa region.

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