It doesn't matter how rich you are off these minerals if there's no food grown anymore. Australia's prioroty needs to be ensuring our independent food production, and then export of excess. We need to be able to survive without requiring imports.
There is a significant distinction between mineral sand mines and other conventional open out mines like gold or coal operations. Mineral sand mining simply extracts the heavy mineral fraction of the sand, typically less than 5% of the total processed volume, by water and gravity. No chemicals. Here’s the different bit- all the washed sand that has had the heavy minerals removed is dewatered and placed back in the void it came from. The landscape and topography are restored to original. Farming productivity on rehabilitated sand mining areas in Western Australia is notably improved due to the practice of enriching rehabilitated topsoil returned to the mined area. Farmland is not only fully restored, it becomes more productive and usually also benefits from improved infrastructure such as dams, power and roads. Fear mongering by lumping the environmental impact of all mining types together is not helpful. Facts are.
Topsoil enriched with what? You can see on google earth how well the crops are going on ground that was mined years ago for mineral sands/rare earth's... they're not good. Crop yields obviously much much worse compared with before the mineral sands mine. Ground basically worthless afterwards
yes but your talking about the last 2 centuries,there was Not a lot of education/knowledge nor care for rehabilitation of land being mined & yet here we are in other parts of this country where illegal felling of trees/harvesting is occurring & is Fact.(Rinyirru National Park)...or un-named person in NSW clearing farmland property(s) illegally time & time again,your ending does Not present an argumentive case rather you base on history rather than the current practices in land mining rehabilitation.
It doesn't matter how rich you are off these minerals if there's no food grown anymore. Australia's prioroty needs to be ensuring our independent food production, and then export of excess. We need to be able to survive without requiring imports.
what do we need to eat or to mine?
There is a significant distinction between mineral sand mines and other conventional open out mines like gold or coal operations. Mineral sand mining simply extracts the heavy mineral fraction of the sand, typically less than 5% of the total processed volume, by water and gravity. No chemicals. Here’s the different bit- all the washed sand that has had the heavy minerals removed is dewatered and placed back in the void it came from. The landscape and topography are restored to original. Farming productivity on rehabilitated sand mining areas in Western Australia is notably improved due to the practice of enriching rehabilitated topsoil returned to the mined area. Farmland is not only fully restored, it becomes more productive and usually also benefits from improved infrastructure such as dams, power and roads. Fear mongering by lumping the environmental impact of all mining types together is not helpful. Facts are.
Topsoil enriched with what? You can see on google earth how well the crops are going on ground that was mined years ago for mineral sands/rare earth's... they're not good. Crop yields obviously much much worse compared with before the mineral sands mine. Ground basically worthless afterwards
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yes but your talking about the last 2 centuries,there was Not a lot of education/knowledge nor care for rehabilitation of land being mined & yet here we are in other parts of this country where illegal felling of trees/harvesting is occurring & is Fact.(Rinyirru National Park)...or un-named person in NSW clearing farmland property(s) illegally time & time again,your ending does Not present an argumentive case rather you base on history rather than the current practices in land mining rehabilitation.
Gov wants to waste these minerals on obsolete technologies. We need food.