THE EFFECTS OF MINING ON POPULATION SETTLEMENTS

Abstract: This paper studied the influences of mining, extraction and industries other than environment, ecology or socio-economical factors on rural population decrease and intensified migration. From 2010 to 2015, accounting percentage of rural population in the provinces with large amount of mineral extracting deposits had decreased by 0.4-3.5 percent and accounting percentage of migrants in entire migration had increased by 13.2-25.86 percent. Also, this study shows the tendency of decrease in rural population and increase in number of migrants and people who have infectious diseases originated from pollution.