How Mining is Killing our

Water Ecosystems
Taylor Jackson & Andrew Vogel

Mercury Contamination

Heap leaching

Cyanide Lead and Arsenic

Contamination

Offshore Drilling

Drilling Depth and Problems

Not only do you drill for oil
thousands of feet underground
but you are also up to thousands
of feet underwater, creating a
dangerous environment.
Drilling for oil like this also sturs
up Cyanide, Arsenic, and Lead
into the water harming Marine
life.

Acid Mine Drainage

The chemicals from the ores sink to the bottom of the sea and kill the
aquatic life messing up the sea food chain (get it.)

The chemicals the mixture of pyrite and water actually destroy some of the
valuable metals that they are mining, so it becomes counter productive.

The chemical mixture creates this orangish gross silt that sits on the top of
the water and kills eggs even if it does get neutralised.

River Dredging

It blocks off the passageways for sunlight to reach some of the plants that
migrate to the light for growth.

It destroys the beautiful reefs with the cables and also destroy aquatic life
eggs under them.

It kills some sea turtles laying eggs under the sand.

Pictures AMD and River Dredging

The machine they use to do River Dredging.
The silt leftover of
Acid Mine Drainage.

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