Air pollution caused by opencast mining and its abatement …
Opencast mining dominates coal production in India and a survey was conducted to evaluate its local atmospheric impact, revealing high pollution potential due to suspended particulate matter and consequent impact on human health. Opencast mining dominates coal production in India. A survey was conducted to evaluate its local atmospheric …
Air pollution-induced epigenetic changes: disease …
A combination of PM10, PM1, zinc, and iron exposures has been negatively associated with NOS3 methylation, while only zinc exposure has reduced endothelin-1 (EDN1) methylation. ... Bunkar N, Kumar R, Bhargava A, Tiwari R, Chaudhury K, Goryacheva IY, Mishra PK. Air pollution associated epigenetic modifications: …
Air Pollution in Steel Industry: Environmental, Health
The first step involves mining iron ore or as easy it can be described as the first step in the process of making steel from iron ore. ... The steel industry is the third-largest contributor to air pollution. The steel industry is the third-largest contributor to air pollution and one of the largest causes of industrial pollution in India with ...
PM2.5 pollution from solid fuel burning practices …
Additionally, carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks associated with exposure to indoor PM 2.5 (inhalation, dermal and ingestion) were estimated and while exposures associated with dermal contact and ingestion were found to be within the acceptable limits, risk associated with inhalation exposure was found to be high for children and ...
Heavy metal pollution in the environment and their …
Air pollution. Like water contamination, air pollution has been caused due to urbanisation and industrialisation. Pollutants enter the atmosphere in different forms. …
Air Pollution in Steel Industry: Environmental, Health
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 …
Transparency on greenhouse gas emissions from mining to …
In iron ore mining, for example, most energy is required for hauling and loading, so diesel consumption is a major contributor to its GHG emissions. However, in …
Metalliferous Mine Dust: Human Health Impacts and the
Purpose of Review Many factors influence the health impact of exposure to metalliferous mine dusts and whilst the underpinning toxicology is pivotal, it is not the only driver of health outcomes following exposure. The purpose of this review is twofold: (i) to highlight recent advances in our understanding of the hazard posed by metalliferous …
Effects of Soil, Water and Air Pollution with Heavy Metal
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 …
Air Pollution in the Mining Sector: Sources to Solution
For example, magnetite is the finest ore for iron extraction, with total iron content ranging from 68-71%. Quarrying, a term interchangeably used with mining, is primarily associated with surface mining operations like open-pit, opencast mines, and excavation of shallow deposits. It is primarily used to extract construction materials
Air Quality Impact Assessment and Management of Mining …
A comprehensive field study has been carried out to measure the background air quality status and identify the air pollution sources from opencast …
Catalyzing Clean Air in India
Lost output from premature deaths and morbidity attributable to air pollution accounted for economic losses of US$28.8 billion (21.4–37.4) and $8 billion (5.9–10.3), …
Stopping air pollution at the source for Australia's …
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 …
A study on waste management in iron mining
The mining sector is a very challenging sector.Particularly, coal and iron mines produce maximum overburden and tailing waste.Proper utilization of this waste in construction sites can reduce the maximum problems of land,water and air pollution.Hence, in this paper based on literature, waste is categorised and a few …
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems
While India's largest projects, such as the Chhattisgarh Group, Sesa Goa, and Noamundi iron mine, extract between 15 Mt and 25 Mt of metal ore per year (and results yield coefficients between 2% and 9%), average annual ore extraction for the mines listed in Table 1 lies between 0.01 and 1.3 Mt. Extraction volumes of these iron ore and …
India's Mining Sector: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable …
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.
Coal Mining and Local Environment: A Study in Talcher Coalfield of India
The activities such as drilling, blasting, and transportation are the central cause behind air pollution. 21,35 Even the release of fugitive dust into the air is also responsible for air pollution. 22 In this study, it is observed that in the mining-affected villages, due to the release of particulates and poisonous gases, the atmosphere has ...
Chromite mining pollution, environmental impact, toxicity …
Chromite mining activities are indispensable for production of goods and services. Sukinda is a major mining site of Odisha, India, polluted by chromium, which is highly toxic in its hexavalent form. The Sukinda valley is a rich source of chromites, amounting to almost 95% of Cr available in India, and is the fourth most polluted site …
Improvements in SO2 pollution in India: role of technology …
India relies heavily on coal-based thermal power plants to meet its energy demands. Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted from these plants and industries is a major air pollutant. Analysis of spatial and temporal changes in SO2 using accurate and continuous observations is required to formulate mitigation strategies to curb the increasing air …
Environmental pollution in India
In 2019, the government of India launched the National Clean Air Program, which has set the target of reducing particulate matter pollution in cities by 40 percent from 2017 levels by 2026.
People living near mining activities at increased …
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 …
Contamination of Heavy Metals in India
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has identified 320 locations of high probability of contamination with heavy metals (Cr, Pb, …
Air pollution caused by opencast mining and its abatement measures in India
At the beginning of the 21st century, a study (Ghose and Majee, 2001) depicted that suspended particulate matter (SPM) was the largest dust pollutant from open-pit mining, contributing to air ...
People living near mining activities at increased risk of …
In a 2010 paper, Under-mining health: Environmental justice and mining in India', that focused on health impacts of iron-ore mines in Keonjhar in Odisha, ... this would be through air pollution-related to the mining and the transportation of ores. "Our statistical analysis of villages more exposed (close to mines) compared to villages less ...
(PDF) Mining and its Impacts on Environment and Health …
Vol. 4, pp. 137-149. [24] A Jaswanth Gowda (2016). Fuzzy based Air Quality Indices at Iron Ore Mine Area. International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT). Vol. 5 Issue 04. [25] Patel, T.H., Venkateshwara Reddy, V., Mise, S. R. (2017). Impact from Mining & Associated Industrial Activities on Air Quality of Ballari Region.
South Asia's main sources of polluting particulate
Not just an urban problem. A few other notable features include high contribution from coal in central and eastern India, higher air pollution in …
The Environmental Problems Caused by Mining | Earth.Org
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, mining uses relatively small pockets of land, and the future of mining could move to using techniques that are arguably even less invasive on …
(PDF) IMPACTS OF IRON ORE MINING ON WATER QUALITY
Considerable contamination of surface and groundwater with metals have been reported from Koira-Joda iron mining areas of India and Bong mining area of Liberia, West Africa (Gleekia and Sahu 2016 ...
Multiple phases of mining in Ballari take a toll on its people …
An air quality assessment conducted in Sandur, studying distribution of dust particles from 2000 to 2010, showed the size of particulate matter (dust) ranging from 0.1 μm to 0.58 μm (1 metre=10,00,000 μm) with the dust particles covering the entire area.. Social worker Sanna Mareppa said that owing to mining and the transportation of iron …
Preliminary review of mine air pollution in Zambia
Human exposure to air pollutants from mining and ore processing operations can also occur through the food chain. A study by Kříbek et al. (2014) found substantial chemical contamination of the surface of leaves of cassava (second staple crop after maize in Zambia) grown near the smelters located in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. The …