"mining activities"

#12657662

18 August 2025

The entire town of Malmberget moves in 2020/2021 due to mining activities in the area. Underground mining is cost-effective and enables a high level of mechanization and automation. However, it causes deformations in the surface ground that, beyond a certain threshold, can render it impossible to maintain any infrastructure or residential areas in those locations.

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#12657653

18 August 2025

The village of Kakstan, once a miners' residential area, is now an open-air museum in Malmberget. Following the mine's expansion and the railway's completion in 1888, there is a surge of workers arriving from across the country, leading to a housing shortage. In response, miners build simple wooden houses from waste materials. The entire Malmberget town moves in 2020/2021 due to mining activities in the area. Underground mining is cost-effective and enables a high level of mechanization and automation. However, it causes deformations in the surface ground that, beyond a certain threshold, can render it impossible to maintain any infrastructure or residential areas in those locations.

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#12657654

18 August 2025

The village of Kakstan, once a miners' residential area, is now an open-air museum in Malmberget. Following the mine's expansion and the railway's completion in 1888, there is a surge of workers arriving from across the country, leading to a housing shortage. In response, miners build simple wooden houses from waste materials. The entire Malmberget town moves in 2020/2021 due to mining activities in the area. Underground mining is cost-effective and enables a high level of mechanization and automation. However, it causes deformations in the surface ground that, beyond a certain threshold, can render it impossible to maintain any infrastructure or residential areas in those locations.

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#12554109

14 July 2025

The children play in the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in Mandiodo village near the nickel mining site in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 9, 2024.

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#12554110

14 July 2025

The children play in the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in Mandiodo village near the nickel mining site in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 9, 2024.

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#12554113

14 July 2025

The children play in the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in Mandiodo village near the nickel mining site in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 9, 2024.

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#12554114

14 July 2025

The children play in the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in Mandiodo village near the nickel mining site in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 9, 2024.

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#12554095

14 July 2025

A view of the fishing villages of Tapunggaya in the Molawe district, which are contaminated by a nickel mine, in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 9, 2024.

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#12554102

14 July 2025

Sea waters are contaminated by a nickel mine in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 9, 2024.

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#12554143

14 July 2025

A view shows an area of polluted water contaminated by a nickel mine near the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, a nickel processing complex in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 12, 2024.

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#12554154

14 July 2025

A view shows the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in the village of Keurea near Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 13, 2024.

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#12554155

14 July 2025

A view shows the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in the village of Keurea near Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 13, 2024.

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#12554160

14 July 2025

A view shows the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in the village of Keurea near Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 14, 2024.

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14 July 2025

A view shows the sea waters contaminated by nickel mines in the village of Keurea near Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 14, 2024.

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#12554097

14 July 2025

A couple dries bananas in the sun next to a home in the area of seawater contaminated by a nickel mine in Mandiodo village, North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 9, 2024.

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#12003745

1 February 2025

Men extract sand and gravel using Pokeland in the Jhelum River in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, on February 1, 2025. Rivers are a key source of ecosystem services such as water, food, energy, and rocks. Within those ecosystem services, the extraction of riverbed material is a particularly important type of human activity in river ecosystems. Sand and gravel mining is a serious environmental problem around the globe in recent years.

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