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

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  • Ekaterina Kalemeneva Center for Environmental and Technological History (CETH) of the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)

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.

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Published

2014-03-03

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