The amount of pollution generated by mining activities can be seen in Table 1, which summarizes the data from various studies on the concentration of lead and zinc in the soil around different mining sites.The table provides information on the levels of lead and zinc pollution, health and environmental impacts, and economic consequences …
collected at monthly intervals from copper and iron mining areas, in Singhbhum, India. The average atmospheric dustfall rate varied from 7.51 to 28.58 g/m2/month, and 7 ... sources of air pollution. Mining is a significant source of emissions from dust among the numerous sources of air pollution (Ghose and Majee 2000). ...
Introduction. In preindustrial civilizations, domestic combustion of biomass was the primary source of hazardous anthropogenic air pollution; the lungs of exhumed Ancient Egyptian mummies have been found blackened by it (1, 2).In Airs, waters and places written around the 4th century BCE, Hippocrates considered the relationship …
Introduction. Air pollution has become a global threat to human health as it predisposes the risks of various diseases including cancers. In today's world, a whole range of industries such as petrochemical firms, chemical factories, fertilizer units, and metallurgical setups contribute to air pollution.
focus area prototype redesign. Photo credit: APChannel/Shutterstock. Industrialization, use of pesticides and nitrogen-based fertilizers, crop residues in agriculture, urbanization, forest fires, desert dust, and inadequate waste management have intensified environmental health risks and pollution, especially in low- and middle …
Managing copper mining dust is important because it can afect local and national air quality, adversely afect local infra-structure, and pose a public health threat. An average …
Soils contaminated with heavy metals may pose very dangerous effects to human health and the environment. Contaminants impairing the soils from iron ore-mining ac-tivities …
repairable/irreparable, and reversible/irreversible. Mines especially open cast iron ore mines, due to its own peculiarities can cause disturbance in ecology, resulting in various pollution problems. The environmental problems are more significant in India, as most of the iron ore mines located on top of hills and in dense forest areas.
Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing 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 may also cause …
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 …
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 the potential to impact environmental sustainability, social inclusion, and economic development.
The past two decades have seen seven-fold increase in the number of passenger cars on India's roads leading to significant increases in urban air pollution levels and associated health problems. In response, India has adopted tighter emissions standards (Bharat Stage VI) effective for all vehicles manufactured after March 2020 and …
Excessive chromite mining in Sukinda Valley, India, has caused severe chromium contamination in soil, water, air, affecting workers and villagers with health …
Air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. WHO data shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. ... WHO monitors and reports on global trends and changes in health outcomes associated with actions taken to address air pollution at the national, regional and global levels.
Many iron mines are concentrated in forest areas in Pará state, Brazil. This includes the world's largest open-pit iron mine, the Serra Norte complex, at the south-east end of the Amazon rainforest, as well as the S11D mine in Carajás National Forest, one of …
Association of Short-Term Exposure to Air Pollution with Depression in Patients with Asthma: A Cross-Sectional Study in Delhi, India. Vansh Maheshwari, Preeti Negandhi, Vikram Jaggi, Supreet Batra, Poornima Prabhakaran, and; Jyothi S. Menon; Open access Research 15 Aug 2024.
India's coal reserves, 17 per cent of iron ore, 98 per cent of chromite, 51 per cent of bauxite, 35 per cent of manganese, and 92 per cent of nickel ore ... Air pollution in opencast coal mines is mainly ... but also associated with a healthy and hygienic environment. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore the linkages between health and ...
Introduction. Bauxite mining in Kuantan offers some exciting economic opportunities for various parties including individual land owners. Nevertheless, the "bauxite boom"; the extensive and uncontrolled mining activities have great potentials to cause adverse impacts on the environment, health and quality of life of the people living in the …
A village was set up to support 15,000 miners working in the ruby mine near Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar. Photo: Pardieu et al. (2017). However, compared to many other industries such as agriculture, …
Air pollution, release into the atmosphere of various gases, finely divided solids, or finely dispersed liquid aerosols at rates that exceed the natural capacity of the environment to dissipate and dilute or absorb them. High concentrations can cause undesirable health, economic, or aesthetic effects.
By Siti Haslina Mohd Shafie, Universiti Sains Malaysia. KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 – Malaysia has made some improvements to its air quality since 2005, when a state of emergency was announced as its Air Pollution Index exceeded 500. Its most recent annual Air Pollution Index rating, from 2022, was an improvement on the previous year, …
Environmental Geochemistry and Health - For research papers in the topic of coal geology and coal chemistry, Pillai et al. studied the Lower Permian Gondwana rocks in Rajhara, Damodar Basin, India.It analyzes the flora and geochemical data within the sequence to gain insights into marine ingressions and the depositional environment …
A comprehensive field study has been carried out to measure the background air quality status and identify the air pollution sources from opencast …
Ballari District has 125 Mining leases of Major minerals of which 30 leases are working and 92 quarry leases of minor minerals [4]. 3.1 Iron Ore The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has estimated a reserve of about 1876 million tonnes of iron ore with about 63% of total iron in the Sandur belt.
Except for bauxite, iron and manganese, which are listed as ores (gross weight), metal production is reported as metal content (net weight). In order to construct a homogeneous measure of extracted crude ore that is used as an input from the natural environment to the economic system, we applied country- and commodity-specific …
Press Release: December 2, 2020. The topic of dust pollution caused by mining activities is back on the agenda in Western Australia due to monitoring failures in Port Hedland and excessive levels of particulate discovered in the area close to the Newman Mine – the world's largest open-cut iron ore mine.
The rule also applies to two mining operations in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Virtually all U.S. iron ore processing occurs at those Michigan and Minnesota mines. "We're glad to see some limits at long last on this pollution," James Pew, an attorney with Earthjustice, told Minnesota Public Radio.
The mining areas included seven selected locations in the vicinity of active and abandoned iron ore-mining sites in Pahang, Malaysia. Heavy metals such as Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, Co, Pb, Cr, Ni, and Cd and metalloid As were present in the mining soils of the studied area, while Cu was found exceeding the soil guideline value at all sampling locations.
The steel industry is the third-largest contributor to air pollution and one of the largest causes of industrial pollution in India with highest rates of carbon dioxide emissions. Steel particularly requires …
ABSTRACT India suffers from among the worst air pollution in the world. In response, a large government effort to increase air quality monitoring is underway. We present the first comprehensive analysis of government air quality observations from 2015–2019 for PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NO2 and O3 from the Central Pollution Control …
Air pollution is strongly tied to climate change. Industrialization and fossil fuel combustion are the main contributors leading to climate change, also being significant sources of air pollution. Malaysia is a developing country with a focus on industrialization. The preference of using private cars is a common practice in Malaysia, resulting in the after …
Mining is a significant source of emissions from dust among the numerous sources of air pollution (Ghose and Majee 2000). Factors such as vegetation cover, precipitation, wind strength, and soil moisture regulate the amount of dust in the air (Ta …
Referring to Afroz et al., the major air pollution in Malaysia came from motor vehicle that contributing to at least 70–75% of total air pollution. Motor vehicle emissions consequently impacted the spatial and temporal distribution of ambient concentration that also determined by meteorological factors (Kim and Guldmann 2011 ).
Increased mining activity of iron ore has led to the generation of voluminous wastes of various nature, especially during the different stages of its extraction and production. The improper disposal of such waste causes negative impact on the environment. One such waste which is generated during the beneficiation process of …
Noise pollution is an unintentional consequence of mining activities, needing rigorous assessment, monitoring, and mitigation techniques to reduce its impact on local residents and ecosystems. The study specifically examines the noise pollution from rare earth mining activities in the Neendakara-Kayamkulam (NK) coastal belt, Kollam, …
