2026-05-19 · percent of Earth's land
Mining disturbs a small share of land — locally huge
Global pits and tailings are tiny on a world map — but toxic at the watershed scale.
How to read: 1 cell = 0.1 percent of Earth's land (0.1% of land surface). 1,000 cells total.
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