Mining is a process of extracting valuable minerals from a mine. The following are the impacts of mining:
1. Mining can cause sinkholes, erosion, and biodiversity loss, contamination of soil, surface and groundwater.
2. The mining process emits carbon into the environment; causing serious hazards to biodiversity and human health.
3. The poisoning of water reservoirs emerging from the leakage of substances also adversely affects the health of the local inhabitants.