How to optimize dust pollution control in …
— The carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals drive innovation in pollution governance systems, unleashing the potential of social supervisory forces to achieve coordinated governance by multiple …
Annual dust pollution characteristics and its prevention and …
— The scientific basis for dust prevention and management hinges on a thorough understanding of the long-term characteristics of dust pollution. However, analyzing the characteristics of long-term dust pollution in open-pit coal mines has always been a void in research due to the effect of the mines' geographical location and …
Assessment of heavy metal distribution and bioaccumulation …
— Monitoring heavy metals (HMs) across source distance and depth distribution near coal mining sites is essential for preventing environmental pollution and health risks. This study investigated the distribution of selected HMs, cadmium (Cd2+), chromium (Cr2+), copper (Cu2+), manganese (Mn2+), nickel (Ni2+), lead (Pb2+), and …
Mining and Water Pollution
— Mining affects fresh water through heavy use of water in processing ore, and through water pollution from discharged mine effluent and seepage from tailings and waste rock impoundments. Increasingly, human activities such as mining threaten the water sources on which we all depend.
Treating abandoned mine drainage can protect streams cost …
— Roughly 200 years of coal mining occurred in Appalachia before passage of the 1977 federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which established standards for operating and reclaiming ...
Press Release:Press Information Bureau
— Coal mining operations have some impact on environment in terms of change in land use pattern, dust, air, water and noise pollution. ... Ministry of Railways has issued guidelines/directions to all Zonal Railways in April 2018, for action to be taken with regard to handling of pollution intensive commodities at sidings and goods sheds in ...
Monitoring Air Quality In Mining: Importance And Best …
— Regular vehicle maintenance is highly important in addressing mining air pollution. With coal mining specifically, ... including the "Guide to the prevention and suppression of dust in mining, ... or implement an emergency response plan when air pollution levels at a site exceed the country's guidelines for a 15-minute period.
Construction of a three-dimensional energy-stabilized …
— Coal plays a vital role in China's energy structure, serving as not only a fundamental energy source but also as a versatile industrial raw material. However, the high concentration of coal dust pollution resulting from coal mining poses a severe threat to the lives and health of underground workers.
Measures in place to Curb Air Pollution in Coal Mines
The government has already issued the following guidelines to curb air pollution in existing coal mines throughout the country-1. Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification, 2006, prescribes that the project proponent ... The coal mining standards (Notification No. GSR 742(E), dated 25.09.2000, prescribes ... The Air (Prevention ...
A review: The formation, prevention, and remediation of acid mine …
— In abandoned open-pit coal mines, surface water and groundwater form acidic waters with high concentrations of metal ions due to chemical interactions with ores such as pyrite, and the formation of acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the major sources of pollution of world concern. For this reason, this paper reviews the formation …
Coal Mining and Production Industry
Article Coal Mining and Production Industry - Pollution Prevention Guidelines. Introduction Pollution Prevention Guidelines to provide technical advice and guidance to staff and consultants involved in pollution-related projects.
Identification and monitoring of coal dust pollution in Wucaiwan mining
— Coal dust is the main pollutant in coal mining areas. Such pollutants easily diffuse and are difficult to monitor, which increases the cost of environmental pollution control. Remote sensing technology can be used to dynamically monitor mining areas at a low cost, and thus, this is a common means of mining area management. According to …
Water Resources Utilization and Protection in the Coal Mining …
— China's water resources are relatively scarce, in general, and water resources per capita are only a quarter of the world's average 1,2,3,4.Water resource problems are more prominent in the ...
Air pollution control of coal and copper mining
— 3. Methane: • Methane which is the primary component of natural gas is produced and is stored in the internal surfaces of the coal. • It is released as a by-product at great volume during the cola mining …
Sector H: Coal Mines and Coal Mining-Related Facilities
limitation guidelines under NPDES, including other nonstormwater discharges such as- ... consideration should be for pollution prevention BMPs, which are designed to prevent or ... Most active coal mining areas are subject to the sediment and erosion control requirements under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). SMCRA ...
Prevention and Control of Spontaneous Combustion …
The guidelines consist of broad principles that individual mines can use to establish or adapt their standard procedures in a changing mining environment. They aim to assist mine managers, blasting engineers, planners and operators to implement standard procedures in the areas of prediction, prevention, detection, monitoring, control and ...
The Recent Progress China Has Made in Green …
— With the development of technology, the concepts of "green" and "sustainable" have gradually been popularized in all walks of life. With the continuous development of the world mining industry, the efficiency …
US, Canada and indigenous groups announce proposal to …
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S., Canada and several indigenous groups announced a proposal on Monday to address pollution from coal mining in British Columbia that officials say has been contaminating waterways and harming fisheries on both sides of the border for years.. The proposal would be executed through a century-old U.S.-Canada …
Coal explained Coal and the environment
— However, producing and using coal affects the environment. Effects of coal mining. Surface mines (sometimes called strip mines) were the source of about 63% of the coal mined in the United States in 2022. These mining operations remove the soil and rock above coal deposits, or seams. The largest surface mines in the United States are in …
Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Mining
The EHS Guidelines for Mining are applicable to underground and open-pit mining, alluvial mining, solution mining, and marine dredging. Extraction of raw materials for construction products are addressed in the EHS Guidelines for Construction Materials Extraction. This document is organized according to the following sections:
Water | Special Issue : Mine Water Safety and Environment
— This Special Issue aims to publish multidisciplinary scholarly works focusing on obtaining an in-depth understanding of the scientific principles and mechanisms, including critical technology, challenges and ideas, for mine water hazard and pollution prevention, water-preserved coal mining, mine water reinjection and geological storage, …
Reports
Reports ABS Annual Report 2018 (PDF); Overburden Sampling and Testing Manual (PDF); Coal Mine Drainage Prediction and Pollution Prevention in Pennsylvania Book (PDF); Assessment of Pennsylvania's Bonding Program for Primacy Coal Mining Permits: Permit Forfeiture and Land Reclamation Status Report
ACID DRAINAGE PREVENTION GUIDELINES FOR …
framework for pollution prevention in opencast coal mining. In specifying the scope of this document, SEPA requested inclusion of the following: 1. A hydrogeological summary of the impacts that opencast mining operations can have on water quality, focusing on the quality of water which is likely to leach from the disturbed geological materials. 2.
Pollution Prevention Law and Policies | US EPA
— P2 Law. In 1990, Congress passed the Pollution Prevention Act (P2 Act) which states "The Environmental Protection Agency must establish a source reduction program which collects and disseminates information, provides financial assistance to States, and implements the other activities....". The "Findings" section of the Pollution …
Coal Mining and Production
Table 1. Loads Per Unit of Coal Production, by Mining Technique (tons per 1,000 tons coal produced) Surface mining Underground mining Waste characteristic Contour Area Conventional Longwall Liquid effluents 0.24 1.2 1 1.6 Solid waste 10 10 3 5 Dust 0.1 0.06 0.006 0.01. Note: Local conditions will form the basis for choosing the appropriate ...
Mine Water Treatment, Resource Utilization and Prospects in Coal Mining …
— Understanding the characteristics of mine water quality in coal mining areas is a prerequisite for its treatment and utilization. The main source of mine water is groundwater that enters the mines through water-bearing fractures (Gu et al. 2021a, b; He et al. 2018; Xie 2014).The quality of mine water primarily depends on the original …
Environmental hazards posed by mine dust, and monitoring method of mine
— As the world's resources continue to be exploited, mining activities are giving rise to increasing environmental damage and pollution, of which mine dust pollution is considered to be one of the biggest threats to environment and public health (Entwistle et al., 2019; Hendryx et al., 2020a): Mine dust pollution not only leads to serious …
Coal Mining Activities Driving the Changes in Microbial
— Coal mining can cause groundwater pollution, and microorganism may reflect/affect its hydrochemical characteristics, yet little is known about the microorganism's distribution characteristics and its influence on the formation and evolution of mine water quality in underground coal mines. Here, we investigated the hydrochemical …
Air Pollution Emissions 2008–2018 from Australian Coal Mining
— 1. Introduction. Coal mining is a hazardous occupation, with high risks for both accidents [] and occupational diseases, especially respiratory disease [2,3], compared to other types of work.Occupational disease risks are not restricted to underground miners but extend to surface mining workers as well [4,5].Surface mining workers are exposed …
Dust Control in Mines: Methods, Sources, Solutions | Oizom
— The market value of coal mines has varied significantly since 2010. In 2011, its market value increased to 1.3 billion US dollars but gradually decreased to 571 million US dollars until 2015. By 2020, the market value was approximately 698 million US dollars (Garside, 2021)—the global market value of coal mining from 2010 to 2020.
Coal pollution prevent-notes | PDF
— This document provides guidelines for pollution prevention and control for the coal mining and production industry. It describes the impacts of surface and underground coal mining, including massive land disturbances, disruption of water systems, acid mine drainage, dust emissions, and waste disposal.
Heavy metal pollution of soils from coal mines in China
— Mining activities are among the main sources of heavy metal contamination in the environment. To analyze heavy metal pollution of soils from coal mines in China, we assessed pollution and potential ecological risk, compared heavy metal concentrations between soils from coal mines and soils from metal mines and identified the relationship …
New report urges global action on mining pollution
— On 5 November 2015, a waste dam at an iron-ore mine in southeastern Brazil collapsed, unleashing a tide of slurry that killed 19 people, displaced hundreds more and polluted 650 kilometres of fertile valleys and estuaries before spewing into the ocean. ... Pollution is the theme of the 2017 UN Environment Assembly, which will gather in …
Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Mining
The EHS Guidelines for Mining are applicable to underground and open-pit mining, alluvial mining, solution mining, and marine dredging. Extraction of raw materials for construction products are addressed in the EHS Guidelines for Construction Materials Extraction.
Coal Mine Drainage Prediction and Pollution Prevention …
The book "Coal Mine Drainage Prediction and Pollution Prevention in Pennsylvania" had its origins as far back as 1979 when a two page letter by Pennsylvania's coal regulatory program was written to provide guidelines to mine operators and permit reviewers …