Iron-ore Mines
Mine and Mining Area, Bicholim, Goa
Pigment Fine Art Print
Edition of 10
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Mining pit with its benches eroding and mining waste dumped into mounds behind the pit piled up for kilometer at stretch is now covered by fresh greens. Impounded brilliant blue sterile water unfit for use is pumped into fields for irrigation. The mining belt, runs for several kilometers in the middle of forests and fields, is responsible for loss of biodiversity.
Mining Waste, Bicholim, Goa
Pigment Fine Art Print
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Thin strips of blue plastic material attempt to stabilize mining waste from eroding into the rivers disturbing the fragile river ecology in the iron-ore belt of Goa, but fail.
Young Mine, Pissurlem, Goa
Pigment Fine Art Print
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A young mine at Gulliem and Gaval Mine shot at 200 feet above ground shows the young benches formed to remove the laterite layers for extraction of iron-ore
Iron-Ore Barge, Mandovi River, Goa
Pigment Fine Art Print
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Barges carrying iron-ore dash to the docks making several trips in a day as iron-ore seeks an all-time high price in International market. Movement of barges impact the coastal fisheries sometimes break the estuarine Khazan land bunds.
Mining Pit Benches, Mayem, Goa
Pigment Fine Art Print
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Aerial view of impounded water in Mayem mining pit rendered unfit for use. As mining pit draws all ground water, wells in nearby villages have dried up resulting in acute water shortage in the area.
Ore Loading Point, Amona, Goa
Pigment Fine Art Print
Edition of 10
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Ore loading point at Pig Iron Plant. Movement to barges and an increase in ore loading points breaks the estuarine Khazan bunds and causes oil pollution of rivers.
90 acres of Fallow lands, , Pissurlem, Goa
Pigment Fine Art Print
Edition of 10
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90 acres of cultivable paddy fields lie as waste lands and are fallow for almost two decades. Mining wastes flood the fields in villages depositing silt, metals and lime. Soil is crumbly and fields have lost their water absorbing capacity.