Banaba Environmental Issues - Phosphate Mining

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Phosphate Mining

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The Banaban village of Buakonikai was situated on the lush central plateau and supplied the Banabans with an abundance of food trees. This photograph was taken of the village in 1932 before mining began.

Buakonikai village 1932

This is the devastation left by Phosphate mining on Banaba, and shows the stark pinnacles left after mining is finished. At Buakonikai the depth of mining went down to 80 feet. Today from an original island consisting of 1,500 acres, only 150 acres around the shoreline remains unmined. The rest of the island, as seen in this photo is left barren and uninhabitable.

The environmental disaster left from phosphate mining - 1969


	Phosphate mining in progress - circa 1932

Phosphate mining in progress - circa 1920

Phosphate mining in progress - circa 1932

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