Sand mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains
Sand mining can take many forms, ranging from subsistence collection by hand to mega-quarries, and occur in natural sand dunes, broken down from rock quarries, dredged from the bottoms of lakes, rivers, and shorelines, or even mined from volcanic sites (Koehnken and Rintoul, 2018; Bisht, 2021; Miller, 2022, see Fig. 1 for a basic supply …
قرأ أكثر