Research on Ecological Effect Assessment Method of Ecological
The coal field is distributed from the northeast to the southwest, covering an area of 510 km 2. Of this, the open-pit stope area is 6.28 km 2, the maximum mining depth is 227 m, and the lowest mining elevation is 854 m; the total area of the dump is 16.02 km 2. The local annual average temperature is 2.2 °C, the annual average frost-free ...
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[PDF] Comparison of quantification methods to measure …
Black carbon (BC), the product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass (called elemental carbon (EC) in atmospheric sciences), was quantified in 12 different materials by 17 laboratories from different disciplines, using seven different methods. The materials were divided into three classes: (1) potentially interfering …
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Full article: Management of Environmental Impacts from Coal Mining …
Management of Environmental Impacts from Coal Mining in the Upper Olifants River Catchment as a Function of Age and Scale. Philip Hobbs CSIR Natural Resources & the Environment, ... South Africa's coal mining industry is the second largest mining sector after gold, with sales contributing 16% of export revenue in 2003 (R20 …
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Methane release from South African coal mines
methane content of the coal was released soon after the coal was mined, coal remaining in the roof, floors and pillars (in the case of pillar-support mining methods) continued to degas long after ...
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Miners' Houses: South Wales and the Great Northern Coalfield, …
17 Return to Durham and Northumberland Coal Owners' Associations of houses owned or leased by colliery companies, May 1919, Durham County Record Office, Durham (hereafter DCRO), NCB l/CO/86 778; Return for Coal Industry Commission, Northumberland County Record Office, Newcastle (hereafter NCRO), NCB/C 366; …
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The potential of coal wastes in South Africa
The Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 40% (Lloyd, 2000; Coal Resources, 2001;North, Engelbrecht, and Oboirien, 2015). Sample A can therefore be classified as waste ...
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[EnvirSci Inquiry] Lehigh River Watershed Explorations
Coal silt deposits in the Lehigh River used to increase the acidity of the waters. Much of this silt was swept away by hurricanes and floods. In addition, the average pH of the river has changed from approximately 4.5 to 6.0 in the 1950s to the present range of 6.9 to 9.2 (Miller, 2000). Today, abandoned coal mines are a major cause of the ...
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Planetary postcolonialism
Adam J Barker, Jenny Pickerill, Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, ... Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 10.1177/0308518X16665843, 49, 1, (29-46), ... Philip F. Kelly, ...
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Philip LLOYD | Adjunct Professor | PhD (Chem Eng)
The environmental impacts of coal mining in South Africa are reviewed. The primary impacts arise from mining, particularly underground mining, largely because South African coal mines...
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"Coal is Not Just a Job, It's a Way of Life": The Cultural Politics of
Philip G Lewin, "Coal is Not Just a Job, It's a Way of Life": ... I began the process by cataloguing all instances in the data wherein residents made statements about mining, coal companies, or environmental organizations (e.g., the EPA). From there, I coded the meanings they attached to these institutions; the values and concerns with ...
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The effects of occupation on chronic respiratory disease.
Environmental Science, Medicine. The American review of respiratory disease. 1993. TLDR. It is concluded that occupational dust is an important cause of COPD, and the risk appears to be greater for gold miners than for coal miners, one possible explanation of the greater risk among gold miners is the higher silica content in gold mine dust. 278.
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COAL MINING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Philip J Lloyd1 Energy Research Institute, University of Cape Town. Abstract The environmental impacts of coal mining in South Africa are reviewed. The primary …
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Coal mining and the environment | Institutional Repository
The legislative controls over coal mining and pollution are outlined. It is concluded that while the coal mining applies good environmental standards to its operations, it may need to pay more attention to the mine-to-ash aspects of coal use. en_US: dc.language.iso: en_US: en_US: dc.publisher: Energy Research Institute: en_US: dc.relation.ispartof
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The potential of coal wastes in South Africa
LLOYD, P.J., COOK, A., VAN WYK, D., PREVOST, X., and FALCON, R. Emission of methane from coal mining and post-mining activities, Appendix 1g, Report to Foundation for Research Development …
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Coal, Industry, Labor, Railroads, Transportation | West ia …
Ten graphic essays from around the globe on the human and environmental devastation caused by mining (cf. U.S. coal mining): The price of the paperless revolution / Ted Genoways -- Mother of God, child of Zeus [Peru; gold mines; mercury poisoning] / Jessica Benko and Bear Guerra -- Here everything is poison [Kosovo lead mines] / J. Malcolm ...
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(PDF) COAL-THE " DIRTY " FUEL?
The world depends upon coal for much of its energy, yet coal had developed a reputation for being "dirty" and polluting. The reputation seems undeserved; coal can be, and often is, burned cleanly ...
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South African Coal Mining Industry: Socio-Economic Attributes
Philip Lloyd; The environmental impacts of coal mining in South Africa are reviewed. The primary impacts arise from mining, particularly underground mining, largely because South African coal ...
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The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate
The power sector must stop using coal without carbon capture and storage by approximately 2050 if the Paris Agreement climate goals are to be achieved 1. This will not be easy. Globally, the coal ...
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[PDF] The estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from South …
@article{Cook2012TheEO, title={The estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from South African surface and abandoned coal mines}, author={Ap Cook and Philip J. D. Lloyd}, …
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Coal explained
The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates (as of October 2022) that in 2021, CO 2 emissions from burning coal for energy accounted for about 20% of total U.S. energy-related CO 2 emissions and for nearly 60% of total CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector. In the past, fly ash was released into the air through the …
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Potential resources from coal mining and combustion waste …
1 Introduction. Coal is Australia's second largest export by value. In 2019–20, Australia exported 213 mil-lion tons of thermal coal and 177 million tons of metallurgical coal with a combined value of $55 billion (Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, 2020). Most Aus-tralian coal production is sold overseas.
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Life cycle assessment of underground coal mining in China
Abstract. Coal is not only the main fossil fuel in China but also a pollution source. To evaluate the impact of coal production on the environment, a life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted on the mining process of a typical coal mine in China by using the SimaPro 9.0.0 software. The Ecoinvent v3 database was used to provide the …
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Sydney Mines | Not Your Grandfathers Mining Industry, Nova …
Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, played a key role in Nova Scotia's coal mining and industrial history. Sydney Mines was named after Thomas Townshend (1733-1800), First Viscount Sydney, who was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government in the 1780s. He was an important player in negotiating the Canada-US border. He felt the British needed to ...
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Phillip L. Monhollen, Partner | smt-law
Phillip L. Monhollen, Partner. Phillip Monhollen was born and reared in Harlan County, Kentucky, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where his third-generation coal-mining family modeled the values of hard work. He worked and paid his own way through Alice Lloyd College at Pippa Passes in Eastern Kentucky. Active in student government, Phil ...
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Effect of Coal Mining on Soil Microorganisms from Stipa …
coal mining [22]. These studies indicated that AMF play an important role in resistance to adverse conditions and vegetation optimization in the mining area. Colonization of AMF in plants can also be regulated by coal mining [23]. The mycorrhizal symbiosis formed by AMF and plants is a bridge connecting the aboveground and …
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Comprehensive evaluation of ecological environment quality of mining
In order to explore the effective method for the comprehensive evaluation of ecological environment quality of environmental pollution governance in China's coal mining areas, based on the review of domestic and foreign research literature and the requirements and actual situation of environmental pollution control in China's coal …
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Effects of Underground Mining on Soil–Vegetation System: A …
The impact of coal mining subsidence on the surface eco-environment can be characterized as the evolution of a complex system. The complexity and stochastic nature of the ecological background conditions (soil quality, vegetation distribution, and geological structure) and coal mining conditions (mining depth, seam thickness, and …
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Coal mining and the environment | Semantic Scholar
The environmental impacts of coal mining in South Africa are reviewed. The primary impacts arise from mining, particularly underground mining, largely because South …
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Coal Mining And The Environment Philip J Lloyd
Aggregate Mining And The Environment Philip J Lloyd A more detailed picture of the environmental impact of aggregate mining is outlined in a 2005 legal challenge to the Dec 02, 2021 Coal explained Coal and the environment Coal is an abundant fuel source that is relatively inexpensive to produce and convert to useful energy However, producing ...
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Coal mining | Definition, History, Types, & Facts | Britannica
coal mining, extraction of coal deposits from the surface of Earth and from underground. Tavantolgoi coal mine, southern Gobi, Mongolia. Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel on Earth. Its predominant use has always been for producing heat energy. It was the basic energy source that fueled the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th ...
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