Assessment of Mining Induced Environmental Degradation Using Satellite Data and Predictive Models

摘要: Kitwe is the largest city on Zambian Copperbelt. Copper has been exploited around for more than seventy years with severe environmental consequences. Tailings impoundments and a large metallurgical facility located near are suspected of causing surface water groundwater pollution. Several installations in sensitive headwaters. One such tailings impoundment Dump 15 A, runoff from which flows into Mwambashi River, where drained agriculture domestic consumption Kitwe. The tributary Kafue River 40% population depend water. quality this therefore critical to general health populace. Fatal poisoning livestock reported along banks River.