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Impacts of Diamond Mining.

LO look at the environmental and social impacts

of diamond mining.

TASK 1: Write the title above and the date.

What do the words environmental and social

mean?

TASK 2: Write two lists of what you think the

impacts of diamond mining might be. Call one

list environmental and one social.


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Environmental Impacts of

Diamond Mining.

This diamond mine in eastern Siberia Most diamond mines in

Sierra Leone are large,

like this one in Siberia.

TASK 3: Write down

the subheading above.

You will then be shown

3 more photos and you

must answer thisquestion:

What effect does

diamond mining have

on the environment?


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look for the tiny red arrow in this photograph; it's pointing to a 220-ton

rock-hauling truck more than 20' tall.


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This photo shows men in SierraLeone who continue their back-

breaking search for diamonds

despite the fact that no gem has

been found at this mine for four

years.

Social Impacts of Diamond Mining.

TASK 4:

Write the subheading above in your book.

Then answer the following questions;

1. Write down how you think the men in this

photo might feel. If you could write a

caption what would it say?

2. If diamond mining is so bad, why do

people still do it?

3. Do you think that all diamond mining in

Sierra Leone is like this?


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Social Impacts of Diamond Mining.

TASK 5:

You will now be given a newspaper article. There are two

levels, one that is harder and one that is easier. You must

complete the task at the end of the article.

" I ask my mother

I say momma

where's my brother?

she say listen

to all the crying

n'people dyingfor the jewels

that mean everlasting love

she say 'your brother

works for da soldiers

an is never coming back..."

By a year 9 pupil at Bury Church ofEngland High School.

Extension: This piece of

poetry was written by a

year 9 student. Can you

come up with another?


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This film is due for release later in the year. It is about the diamond trade in Sierra

Leone. The following page tells the start of the story


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Solomon has been taken from his family and

forced to work in the diamond fields. He finds a

rare pink diamond and hides it at great risk,

knowing if he is discovered, he will be killed

instantly.

But he also knows the diamond could provide the

means to save his wife and daughters from a life

as refugees and also help rescue his son, Dia,

from an even worse fate as a child soldier.

Archer, who has made his living trading diamonds

for arms, learns of Solomon's hidden stone while

in prison for smuggling. He knows a diamond like

this is a once-in-a-lifetime findvaluable enough

to be his ticket out of Africa and away from the

cycle of violence and corruption in which he has

been a willing player.

TASK 6: If you were a scriptwriter at Warner

Brothers, how would the story end? What do you

think is likely to happen to the characters

mentioned here? (Use the writing frame to help!)


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http://blooddiamondmovie.warnerbros.com/

If time, well watch the trailer for

the Blood Diamond film:

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