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2014

Zolotitsa: How Diamond Mining Threatens the Ecological Conditions of a River Region

Published
2014-03-03

Abstract

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.