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Of all the things to mine, sand is probably the least dangerous. A gravel quarry has more hazards.
by astrodust 11y ago
Of all the things to mine, sand is probably the least dangerous. A gravel quarry has more hazards.
- vidarh 11y agoIt very well might be one of the least dangerous things to mine, but that doesn't mean people aren't dying while mining sand. Sand and gravel is often extracted at the same quarries, and it appears they're generally treated as one category with respect to accident stats, so breaking that apart is tricky unfortunately. Actually I was being a bit facetious as well, given that sand is one of the forms of mining where there are quite a few deaths due to organized crime involvement in illegal sand mines [1] [2] [3]. Exactly because it's easy to set up and not much capital lost if you get shut down. [1] https://www.toovia.com/posts/2015/apr/05/0.13503.611792578420998154 https://www.toovia.com/posts/2015/apr/05/0.13503.61179257842... [2] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/woman-hacked-to-death-for-opposing-illicit-sand-mining/article7172104.ece http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/woman-hacke... [3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/indian-college-kids-a-sand-mafia-path-a-river-of-death.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/indian-college-kids...