Preventing tropical mining disasters

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Edwards, David P.;Laurance, William F.
William Laurance
Abstract

Mining for fossil fuels and minerals is penetrating into many of the world's most remote and biologically important tropical forests. In the Amazon, there are some 53,000 active mining leases (1), and hundreds of billions of dollars in new mines are planned across the Congo basin (2). But are extractive industries in the tropics investing sufficiently to prevent environmental disasters?

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350

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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10.1126/science.350.6267.1482-c