1. The document discusses different types of mining including surface mining techniques like placer mining, strip mining, mountaintop removal, and hydraulic mining. It also discusses underground mining techniques like drift mining, slope mining, and shaft mining.
2. Mining can have negative environmental impacts like deforestation, pollution from tailings dams, subsidence from underground coal mining, and dispersal of heavy metals and asbestos.
3. Mining also causes social damages like appropriation of indigenous lands, health impacts, changes to social relationships and regional cultures, and displacement of local communities and economies. The case study of Sukinda valley in India shows large negative health impacts from chromite mining pollution.