Abstract
The practice of tin mining, especially in the Pedindang Sub-Watershed, Central Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Province was not carried out carefully and protectively because it produced soil damage or land degradation. The purpose of this study was to examine soil properties, particularly soil physical properties, and soil damage in the Pedindang Sub-Watershed with various land uses, namely tin mining, forests, dryland agriculture and thicket shrubs-bushes, on various slope classes. The properties of the soil studied were the content of organic matter, sand, silt, clay; bulk density; porosity, and soil permeability. Compared to other land use (forest, dryland agriculture and shrubs) in the Pedindang Sub-Watershed area, tin mining land use show the worst soil properties. Soils in tin mining land use were degraded, has very low organic matter content; the lowest clay content; the highest soil density as indicated by high bulk density and low soil porosity; and the highest sand content so that it can be understood if it has the highest and very fast soil permeability.
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