IMPACT OF SOLID MINERALS MINING ON SELECTED SOIL AND WATER PROPERTIES IN ENYIGBA, EBONYI STATE NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE Introduction It is well established that one of the primary anthropogenic sources of heavy metals is mine (Goyer, 1996). Thus mines have significant negative environmental impacts such as pollution of water bodies and farmlands as well as changes of the landscape with subsequent typical changes in flora and fauna (Aremu et al., 2010). Uncontrolled mining activities have left behind devastated landscape and abandoned mine pits (Plate 1), leading ...
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