pollution due to mining in india interesting facts

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  Air Quality Impact Assessment and Management of Mining …

  2022112 · 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 …

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  Air pollution caused by opencast mining and its abatement measures in India

  2001111 · Opencast mining dominates coal production in India. A survey was conducted to evaluate its local atmospheric impact. Emissions data were utilised to compute dust generation due to different mining ...

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  Pollution From Mining - The World Counts

  The water pollution is caused by acid that drains from the “Iron Mountain” mine, known as acid drainage. Acid drainage is serious stuff. With a pH value of 0, the groundwater near the “Iron Mountain” has been found to be 10,000 times more acidic than battery acid (this is VERY acidic). It’s the highest concentration of acid in the world.

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  (PDF) Coal mining induced pollution: a threat to sustainable …

  2023124 · The study intends to examine the benefit streams from coal mining in Odisha and problem of pollution due to coal mining activities on sustainable livelihood of local communities.

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  Environmental pollution in India - statistics & facts | Statista

  2024429 · Environmental pollution in India - statistics & facts. India has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but rapid urbanization and industrialization have been detrimental in many ways ...

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  Air Pollution Facts, Causes and the Effects of Pollutants in the Air

  20231031 · The effects of air pollution wreck havoc on human health and our planet as a whole. Learn about what causes air pollution and how to help reduce the effects.

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  GIS-based impact assessment and spatial distribution of air …

  2022110 · Mining is a significant part of the transforming economy, which is generally considered as essential as well as social evil at the same time. It is one of the potential contributors to air and water pollution and possesses long-term impact on their quality. Keeping in view the exponential mining activities, we have selected an iron mine area in …

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  Coal Mining and Local Environment: A Study in Talcher Coalfield of India

  201795 · With the above background, this article, taking both experimental and control villages into account, tried to explore the impact of coal mining on local environment. Although dealing with local environment, it has mostly focused on sociological impact of mining in air, water, and noise pollution.

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  Chromite mining pollution, environmental impact, toxicity …

  2020924 · 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 …

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  Coal - National Geographic Society

  20231019 · Coal is a nonrenewable fossil fuel that is combusted and used to generate electricity. Mining techniques and combustion are both dangerous to miners and hazardous to the environment; however, coal accounts for about half of the electricity generation in …

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