English

The river Zolotitsa is located in what is now Arkhangelsk province and flows into the White Sea. The 1980 discovery and subsequent open-pit mining of a large diamond deposit severely transformed the landscape and is threatening to destroy the ecosystem of the upper Zolotitsa region.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalemeneva, Ekaterina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center 2014
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Online Access:https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/62