ADVANTAGES OF BLACK SAND MINING : The advantage of black sand mining is that the black sand is the one of the raw materials that used in making a metal that we used in building different establishments and buildings and also our houses. Aside from that , families that is near in the black sand mining will have a another income to support or give the primary needs of their family. Aside from that it is also used as additive to strengthen the concrete and steel in building foundations and infrastructures, making ink, paper, jewelries, and cosmetics. By the used of this mineral, that is why magnets are discovered. Black sand mining improves the rivers and oceans in order to flow well. Nowadays, during El nino, it is obvious that some of our rivers are totally being parched. Generally speaking, mining will be present everywhere it cannot be stopped. As long as human population increases, the need of our minerals also increases. Without mining, the world economy will be way down.
DISADVANTAGES OF BLACK SAND MINING; Black sand mining literally means scraping off the shoreline. It create more area for salt water while narrowing the land. It disturbs the natural balance. Driving away any living organisms in area, prevents land farming and it may wipe out a whole shoreline community. It is danger to the lives and property of residents near to the black sand mining operation, massive residential displacement, saltwater flooding, landslides, weakening or destruction of the natural defenses and barriers of coastal communities, and the loss of fishing livelihood rights due to the exploration and mining operations.The effects are now easily seen , houses are crumbling because the sand underneath it are getting eroded, rice fields are shrinking and losing harvests as the fields are inundated by saltwater. Black sand mining operations contributed to the depletion of fisheries, erosion of land and severe flooding in coastal and riverside communities. If this operation will continue we will experience a large depletion in the coastal area . Because that black sand that they mined is the sand that filter the salt in the seas.And if the black sand operation will continue there is no can filter the salt and it will result to flooding of salt water . Even the harvest in the field besides the river will also be destroy because of hat operation . Black sand mining also affect the breathing apparatus and photosynthetic processes of marine organisms.