Wingy
Contributor
No Astralmind that is Bangka Billitung off Sumatra (Bangka means tin) - although I guess you could shudder and imagine that will be Bangka Sulawesi in a couple of decades.
How long will it take? thats a how long is a piece of string question. I would assume there are no environmental impact studies in existence of any credibility nor any environmental controls on the mine of any significance. If a plan of the mine was available you may be able to calculate run off given stream flow in the immediate area, dust by volume per vehicle, dust by detonation if that is the method they will use for strip mining and volume of CO2 per hectares of jungle lost.....Biodiversity loss will be even harder to gauge because of the density and remoteness of the center of the island. There are cuscus there but what else and in what numbers?
I dont think the information is available to make an educated guess. From looking at data from similar mines on other islands it seems around 18 months is when the damage begins to be noticeable. Its probably way before then when it actually does. Not an easy question to answer.
How long will it take? thats a how long is a piece of string question. I would assume there are no environmental impact studies in existence of any credibility nor any environmental controls on the mine of any significance. If a plan of the mine was available you may be able to calculate run off given stream flow in the immediate area, dust by volume per vehicle, dust by detonation if that is the method they will use for strip mining and volume of CO2 per hectares of jungle lost.....Biodiversity loss will be even harder to gauge because of the density and remoteness of the center of the island. There are cuscus there but what else and in what numbers?
I dont think the information is available to make an educated guess. From looking at data from similar mines on other islands it seems around 18 months is when the damage begins to be noticeable. Its probably way before then when it actually does. Not an easy question to answer.