Diesel-spewing heavy trucks carry iron and manganese ore out of Sandur mines in Bellary, Karnataka

Описание: Diesel-spewing heavy trucks and cranes mine and carry iron and manganese ore out of Sandur mines in Bellary, Karnataka

Entire Western ghats mountain tops cut off with roads and plundered hillsides. Not a shrub or green leaf in sight, such a distant cry from the verdant hills beyond. How heavily licensed and approved is this mining operation that seems to be destroying our Ghats forests and ruining prime bird and insect habitat. Is iron ore mining so extractively destructive? Can there be no better way? Is all this legal and licensed? Is the Indian environmental lobby aware of such happenings?

Pillage and plunder of Western Ghats: Aerial view of Sandur Iron Ire mines in Karnataka

Iron Ore pre-processing at Sundur in Karnataka: Mining and heavy earth moving and processing machinery is destroying the virgin hills of the Western Ghats in Karnataka state. See the green hills beyond the hopelessly cut and destroyed mined hills in the foreground, with the trucks running up and around the hopelessly ravaged hillsides. Iron ore mining in India, as seen aerially, in aerial view, from the air.

Iron Ore pre-processing at Sundur, Karnataka: Mining is destroying the virgin hills of Western Ghats

Forest tracts cut up by rough roads that carry heavy trucks with mined stone, ores and materials in them, spewing diesel fumes. Thick Western Ghats vegetation destroyed by mining operations on a scale that would embarass even the most heartless politician! A landscape criss-crossed by large trucks carrying mined materials through red lateritic soil landscapes that have been sullied by human greed.

Sandur Aerial view of Bellary district shows manganese mines and large scale pillage of Ghats hillsides.

Sandur in Bellary district has manganese mines. It produces 90% of the manganese ore of the state.

Iron Ore pre-processing at Sundur in Karnataka: Mining and heavy earth moving and processing machinery is destroying the virgin hills of the Western Ghats in Karnataka state. See the green hills beyond the hopelessly cut and destroyed mined hills in the foreground, with the trucks running up and around the hopelessly ravaged hillsides. Iron ore mining in India, as seen aerially, in aerial view, from the air.

Iron Ore pre-processing at Sundur, Karnataka: Mining is destroying the virgin hills of Western Ghats

Entire Western ghats mountain tops cut off with roads and plundered hillsides. Not a shrub or green leaf in sight, such a distant cry from the verdant hills beyond. How heavily licensed and approved is this mining operation that seems to be destroying our Ghats forests and ruining prime bird and insect habitat. Is iron ore mining so extractively destructive? Can there be no better way? Is all this legal and licensed? Is the Indian environmental lobby aware of such happenings?

Pillage and plunder of Western Ghats: Aerial view of Sandur Iron Ire mines in Karnataka

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