Impacts of Coal mining: a Review of Methods and …
This review presents a systematic synthesis of the various methods and measures that have been used to investigate the effects of coal mining in …
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Harmful Impacts of Mining
The harmful impacts of mining remain a challenge for society to acknowledge and address. ... Incursion of mining activities in a legal buffer zone: Drinking water contamination, Damage to local livelihoods ... Report published in 2019 by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India highlighting cases of non-compliance with environmental ...
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Comparative Study on the Adverse Environmental and Social …
mineral-rich areas in Nigeria are engaged in illegal mining activities, some of the locals in India are aware of the dangers of irresponsible mining reflected in their protests. The government of …
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Deforestation Causes and Impacts due to Mining, Dam building …
Deforestation due to human activities such as mining and dam building has significant environmental, ecological, and social impacts, affecting ecosystems, biodiversity, …
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The impact of coal mining activities on land resources in india …
Coal mining causes several impacts on the economic, social, and environmental fabric of the mining areas. This paper presents an overview of studies assessing the adverse effects of coal mining on ...
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Understanding the impacts of mining on ecosystem services …
Maintaining human wellbeing and the benefits of ES to people requires a comprehensive assessment of threats posed by mining activities. Current literature emphasises a strong focus on the environmental and social impacts of mining, often due to land degradation (Simmons et al., 2008; Townsend et al., 2009), biodiversity loss (Butt et al., 2013; Harfoot et …
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CHAPTER 3: MINING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
A significant impact from many mining activities is the impact on water quality and the availability of water. As a mine can take up a large area, it can change the way water travels within the landscape. Sometimes, rivers need to be re-routed to not flood the mine. At the same time, groundwater needs to be pumped to also not flood the mine.
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(PDF) Environmental Impact of Jhansi Mining Activities
In addition to assess the environmental impact of the mining activities, community perceptions about the mining activities were also assessed to know the health effects caused by these activities. ... An environmental management plan (EMP) for sustainable mining activities. India, however, is not a unique case, as it is a well known fact that ...
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Impacts of Coal mining: a Review of Methods and …
This review presents a systematic synthesis of the various methods and measures that have been used to investigate the effects of coal mining in India.
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining in India: A Review of …
This paper throws light on the burning issues of mining, their impact on the environment and the laws governing the mining activities in India. The importance of conducting suitable assessment studies beforehand, to learn the potential adverse impact of mining on the ecology and the environment has also been emphasised.
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Air Quality Impact Assessment and Management of Mining Activities
A comprehensive field study has been carried out to measure the background air quality status and identify the air pollution sources from opencast mines around a heritage site in India. Air quality modeling has been carried out to envisage dust concentration due to the existing and closed mines in the region. The predicted total PM10 and PM2.5 levels at the selected …
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Assessing the impacts of river bed mining on aquatic …
Mining activities alter the size or depth of a river; the water flow is impacted due to dredging, scalping, and cutting into the riverbed (Koehnken et al., 2020) Numerous effects include erosion of the channel bed and banks, a rise in the channel slope, a change in the channel morphology as a result of the significant removal of streambed ...
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Mine reclamation practices and effects of stakeholder perception …
Environmental impacts: Mining activities in India can have significant environmental impacts, including land degradation, deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution. Stakeholder perception of mine reclamation practices is influenced by the extent to which these environmental impacts are addressed and mitigated.
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Impact of Mining Activities on Estuarine
mining of iron ore in Goa is an old industry. It has resulted in adverse effect on environment and water quality [1,2]. According to a report, for everyone tone of quality ore about three tones of waste is generated in an open cast mining (Anonymous, 1981). The discharge of mine waste and wash off of mining activities
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Studies On The Impact Of Bauxite Mining Activities On …
and mammal species found in India. This ecologically sensitive and fragile region in Kolhapur district has now been subjected to developmental activities such as dams, mining, road construction, sugar industries, etc. Bauxite mining is one such major open cast mining activity which has significant negative impact on the local environment. The major
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Environmental and social impacts of mining and their mitigation
Mining companies are also making efforts to reduce the environmental and social impacts of mining and minimize the footprint of their activities throughout the mining cycle, including planning for ...
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Mining industry: Implications for wildlife conservation
Stone mining in the vicinity of the Sariska Tiger Reserve, diamond mining near Panna National Park and limestone mining in Jamva Ramgarh Sanctuary are illustrative of the examples of …
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India's Mining Sector: Towards a Sustainable and …
Mining is an important activity for India. With 3527 mining leases for 40 major minerals, extending a total lease area of roughly 315,986 hectares, India is a major producer of crucial minerals. The mineral resource sector has …
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Report of the
This Report of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India contains the results of the Performance Audit on "Assessment of Environmental Impact due to Mining Activities and its Mitigation in Coal India Limited and its Subsidiaries". The impact on environment due to large scale extraction of coal from opencast as well as underground
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Analyze the impact of mining activities on the local …
According to a report by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), mining has affected about 1.6 million hectares of land in India. Mining causes deforestation, soil erosion, loss of fertility and pollution of land .
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Top 9 Effects of Mining on the Environment
Effects of Mining on the Environment. Below are the negative effects of mining on the environment. Erosion; Sinkholes ; Water Quantity; Water Pollution; Air Pollution; Acid Mine Drainage; Heavy Metal Pollution; Deforestation; Impact on Biodiversity; 1. Erosion. One of the effects of mining on the environment is erosion. The enormous Ok Tedi ...
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Impact of Mining Activities on Land Use Land Cover in the Jharia
The Jharia Coalfield (JCF) is located in the eastern part of India, in the Dhanbad district of the Jharkhand state (Figure 9.1.1).The coalfield covers an area of about 450 km 2 and stretches from latitudes 23.66° N to 23.84° N and longitudes 86.10′ E to 86.50° E (Prakash, 1996, Martha et al., 2010).With more than 100 years of mining history, the JCF is India's most …
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Evaluating the environmental and economic impact of mining for …
India: N/A: Major: chromite, coal, iron ore, and bauxite. ... The impacts of mining activities on water pollution have been recorded in many studies worldwide (Hilson, ... Fig. 4 below shows the mining effect on two different rivers (river Ankobra, left and River Aseesre, right) in Ghana by illegal small-scale mining activities. The illegal ...
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Committee Reports
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India submitted its report on the assessment of the environmental impact of mining activities and its mitigation in Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries on December 11, 2019. The study was conducted from 2013- 14 to 2017-18.
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Assessing the impact of spatio-temporal land use and land
The global impact of coal mining and associated activities on land use/land cover (LULC) changes is significant. This study used Landsat satellite images from 1990 to 2020 to assess LULC changes and their impact on land surface temperature (LST) in four districts of Chhattisgarh state, India. Over three decades, Korba and Raigarh districts saw expansion in …
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Assessing the impact of mining on deforestation in India
We explore the role of mining in contributing to deforestation across 300 plus districts in India. Using a unique dataset, covering the period 2001–2014, the impact of mining related ...
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Impact of Mining on India's Environment and Local Communities
b) Assess the impact of mining on the environment and communities c) Promote the construction of new mines d) Reduce the cost of mining projects Answer: b) Assess the impact of mining on the environment and communities. 11. Which of the following is a major impact of mining on biodiversity in India? a) Increase in forest cover
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Impact of mining on forest and environment
Impact of mining on forest and environment Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and re-purposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it …
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Impact of Coal Mining on Environment
Impact of Coal Mining on Environment: A Study of Raniganj and Jharia Coal Field in India Sribas Goswami1 Abstract Coal mining adversely affects the eco-system as a whole. On the unstable earth; the unresting ... mining activities, keeping in mind the concerns regarding the local habitats and ecosystem, is
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Impacts of Coal mining: a Review of Methods and …
This review presents a systematic synthesis of the various methods and measures that have been used to investigate the effects of coal mining in India. A total of 87 peer-reviewed articles were ...
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People living near mining activities at increased risk of …
A latest government study has found that mining activities in the coal-rich Tamnar area of Chhattisgarh have put the local population, mainly tribal people, at an increased risk of acute respiratory diseases and tuberculosis.
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Coal Mining and Local Environment: A Study in …
Across the globe, mining activities have either direct or indirect association with air pollution. 34 Although the effect of mining, ie, opencast and underground, varies, the negative impact of opencast coal mining is much higher than that of …
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Mining and Climate Change: Risks, responsibilities, and solutions
Tensions with local communities over competition for access to water and increased costs of operations are likely to jeopardize mining activities. Ironically, taking climate actions may increase financial risks for mining companies in the short term. Taxing GHG emissions through mechanisms such as carbon pricing is becoming a popular measure.
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The Indian mining sector and its environmental impact
The key environmental impacts of mining are on wildlife and fishery habitats, the water balance, local climates & the pattern of rainfall, sedimentation, the depletion of forests and the disruption of the ecology.
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Socio-Economic Impacts of Mining on Local Livelihoods in …
potential benefits that mining brings to a community can be undermined if secrecy surrounds the payment of min-ing taxes to the government or the benefits shared at the local level. The other key imperative is the impact mining exercises over society and economics. Is mining increasing pov-erty? Most people in India's mineral-rich states say so,
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Environmental impacts of mining on biodiversity of Angul-Talcher open
Due to the increase in energy consumption in India the mining of coal is also increasing causing more vegetation loss. ... Impact of mining and processing activities on surrounding environmenta ...
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Assessing the impact of mining on deforestation in India
The impact of mining on deforestation varies considerably across minerals and countries. Gold mining in Guyana, during 2000–2009, was responsible for causing 60% of the total deforestation in the country (Lowe, 2014, Laing, 2015).In 2009, it led to a loss of 9000 ha of forests, which accounted for 90% of deforestation from all sources (Lowe, 2014).
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A historical and future impact assessment of mining activities on
Mining activities and associated actions cause land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes across the world. The objective of this study were to evaluate the historical impacts of mining activities on surface biophysical characteristics, and for the first time, to predict the future changes in pattern of vegetation cover and land surface temperature (LST).
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Impacts of Coal mining: a Review of Methods and Parameters Used in India
This review presents a systematic synthesis of the various methods and measures that have been used to investigate the effects of coal mining in India. A total of 87 peer-reviewed articles were collected for each year from 1970 to 2014 using a keyword based search. ... Harendra, S. K., Ahmad, R. M. and Rao, R. J. Impact of Mining Activities on ...
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