Berkeley Pit: An Environmental Nightmare

Berkeley Pit: Filled With Toxic Water

If there is ever going to be an example of how mining can be so devastating to the environment then there might be no better example than the Berkeley Pit. Why is the Berkeley Pit a good BAD example of how mining can be so devastating?

First if you look at the area affected by mining such pit and then looking at how deadly the water accumulating in it and the potential threat that it poses on the surrounding water reserves and the efforts that are made and still need to be made are all indications of how can mining be such a threat to the environment and to human safety as well. And the story does not end there as because of the Pit there is also the problem of the Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond that is adds to the environmental bill paid by such acts.

So what is our purpose here in this post, our aim is quite simple. We need to spread awareness among people all around the world that open mining is not a good way to extract metals and in many ways recycling can be a better option, as for general information, Berkeley Pit (lick on the link for a Google map location of Berkeley Pit) was a copper extraction site, where around one billion tons of copper and other metals were extracted.

Then what needs to be done?