Private companies barred from coastal sand mining for rare earth
TNN | Feb 23, 2019, 03:27 ISTNEW DELHI: The Centre has banned beach sand mining by private companies for extraction of rare earth minerals as part of a crackdown on widespread corruption and stop erosion of sea shores and ecosystem in four coastal states.
Coastal areas in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha where sand is laced with rare earth minerals have been suffering erosion, damaging ecosystems and particularly affecting livelihood of fishermen as a result of unscientific and largely illegal mining of beaches. The latest notification has changed the threshold of the presence of rare earth minerals in sand to ‘zero’.
Sand mining was allowed through a 2016 notification, which had set miniscule level of rare earth mineral presence in sand.
Coastal areas in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha where sand is laced with rare earth minerals have been suffering erosion, damaging ecosystems and particularly affecting livelihood of fishermen as a result of unscientific and largely illegal mining of beaches. The latest notification has changed the threshold of the presence of rare earth minerals in sand to ‘zero’.
Sand mining was allowed through a 2016 notification, which had set miniscule level of rare earth mineral presence in sand.
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