RE: As Bangladesh's oldest mine runs out of coal, its miners are running out of luck28 Jun 2023 07:54
So reminiscent of all the miners from English mining towns, that have been left high and dry once the mine closes (shipbuilders the same), or any town where the population depends on one industrial employer.
-An Open Pit mine at Phulbari, would have been so very different.
-. There is an interesting component to the proposed mine which is often missed, and that is the overburden includes extremely large quantities of: construction sand, Kaolin, aggregates, clay, silica sand, as well as construction rocks such as Granite, sandstone and Tillite. The total of these materials is in the billions of tonnes. The availability of these materials is expected to spawn new industries in the area, including pottery, bricks, construction, ceramics and glass. Once established there is no reason why these industries could not continue as these resources are not at the depths of the coal, and therefore would be easy to continue to extract.
-Plus of course a good % of the land would be returned to farming after the mining has finished. --So there would always be an alternative opportunity for employment post mining.
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-It's a Wi Win Win for the local people and for the country of Bangladesh