Driven to Extraction: Can Sand Mining be Sustainable? by
30/05/2019#0183;#32;The illegal extraction of river and coastal sand has been reported in as many as 70 countries. 16 In India, sand mafias have taken control of sand mines and there have even been reports of murders of local community members who complained. 17 In Morocco, it is estimated that half of the countrys annual extraction 10 million cubic metres comes from illegal coastal sand mining