Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend—12.5 million Olympic sized swimming pools per year ...

Some fear that the presence of a mine located in close proximity to a residential area could have lasting impact on their ...

So, what are the options? The two most common are sand and gravel, and both have their fans and foes. Fine, granular sand is ...

Sand mining destabilises riverbeds and affects local communities but new hi-tech surveillance can improve the monitoring of ...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources approves permits for mining operations. The open pit mine in Christian County ...

The first step: acknowledging sand and gravel (discussed as sand in this publication) -- the world's most extracted solid materials by mass -- are a threat hiding in plain sight. "Sand is a ...

Discover more about sand mining, where it occurs, and why the process damages the environments in which it is carried out in ...