ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ARISING FROM JOÃO PESSOA IRREGULAR MINING, SOBRADO – PB

Abstract

The mining activity has as a peculiarity a good economic use of the limited natural and not renewable resources. Among the mineral goods, the production of supplies for the civil construction is directly connected with the socioeconomic improvement of any nation, indispensable for structural constructions. Searching of a better competitiveness, quarries try to install your operations as near as possible of their consumers centers, attached always to the geological factors, that imposes a strong locational rigidity for mining companies, that are also usually developed in sensible environmentally areas, producing environmental and social  effects in all the phases of the enterprise. The work on canvas had the objective of surveying the environmental aspects linked to the practice of mining activities in Permanent Preservation Areas (APP's) and outside the legal prescriptions. Taking as a guiding element the Law No. 12.651/2012 (new forest code) for the delimitation of the Permanent Preservation Areas. In order to assists the representation of the landscape, geoprocessing was used to graphically express the existing environmental elements such as river, mining area, permanent preservation area and their interference.