Abstract

Mineral resources help meet the needs of daily life [1]. According to Kitula [2], mining offers significant opportunities for socio-economic development through local employment and public revenue. But, the processes associated with mining and further processing of the ore, although they generally occupy a small land area, have the potential to lead to large-scale negative impacts on the environment and health: air pollution and noise, soil pollution, landscape problems... The media coverage of the “environment-health” risks associated with former mining sites has indeed led, for example, in France to publicizing the problems with repercussions in terms of public concerns and mistrust, creating controversies at various scales. In addition, (peri)urban agriculture is developing strongly around the world, and food production is an activity classified as sensitive by the managers of polluted soils.