Impacts of riverine sand mining on freshwater ecosystems A
Rivers are a major source of sand and gravel for numerous reasons cities tend to be located near rivers so transport costs are low; river energy grinds rocks into gravels and sands thus eliminating the cost of mining grinding and sorting rocks; and the material produced by rivers tends to consist of resilient minerals of angular shape that
Innovative Approach to Tackle Illegal Sand
Sand is the most used solid resource on earth including to construct buildings and roads but also for glass natural gas fracking silicon chips and even cosmetics Beiser 2018 As the mass of anthropogenic material is expected to surpass that of the natural biomass this study primarily focuses on sand used in concrete production where sand and gravel