Stamp-Sand Beach, Gay Michigan: A Harmful Mining Legacy – William J. Neal et al.
The book, Vanishing Sands, examined global beach losses due to direct mining of beaches and other sources of beach sand. However, natural beaches can be lost from having gained sediments as the result of mining operations. Such is the case of mining impacts in the form of stamp-sand beaches on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula shores and shallows of Lake Superior…