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  Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Award …

  2  · The Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Awards are presented to coal mining companies that achieve exemplary coal mine reclamation in the nation. Past winners have demonstrated a commitment to sound mining practices and effective reclamation plans that enhanced beneficial post-mining use of the land.

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  Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research needs in …

  2018125 · Here, we synthesize core issues that, if better understood, may ensure coexistence between mining and conservation agendas. We illustrate how mining impacts biodiversity through diverse pathways and across spatial scales.

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  The ten biggest surface mines in operation in Europe - Mining …

  2024618 · According to GlobalData's Mines and Projects Database, within the Mining Intelligence Center, there are over 7,000 surface mines in operation globally, of which XXX are in Europe.

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  Impact of greenhouse gases on surface coal mining in Brazil

  2018820 · The coal life cycle emissions were equal to 3.29 × 10−2 kg CO 2eq per kg of coal, of which direct emissions accounted for 98.3% of GHG, in which the major part was due to fugitive methane emissions from surface mining and post-mining coal crushing and handling operations.

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  Module 7 Overview | GEOG 000

  201991 · Highwall mining is a technique for attaining additional coal recovery after the economic strip limit is reached in surface mining. It involves remote deployment of a continuous miner in openings beneath the final highwall, with no personnel entry. Many candidate areas for highwall mining have thick and steeply dipping seams.

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  MCM - Underground Mining - Morupule Coal Mine

  The underground operation currently extracts coal from the Morupule main seam. Excavation of coal at the Morupule coalfield commenced in 1972 with the excavation of a box cut and exposure of the coal zone. The coal resources were found at a depth and required extraction of coal from beneath the surface of the ground.

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  Coal mining in the UK: Where mines are still being operated …

  2020312 · For decades, coal mining in the UK was the backbone of the economy and stimulated regions including the North of England, Midlands, Wales and Scotland by employing hundreds of thousands of people.

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  Health Impacts of Coal Mining | Kentuckians For The …

  202475 · Health Impacts of Coal Mining In eastern Kentucky our water, land and air are contaminated by mountaintop removal. Volumes of scientific studies illustrate the harm to human health from exposure to dust and numerous toxins released into the air and water by surface mining.

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  GUIDELINES FOR THE INTEGRATED PLANNING AND …

  2021910 · The South African coal mining industry and its stakeholders acknowledge that effective mine planning and design forms the basis of any successful mining operation in meeting its objectives, both in terms of physical and financial performances, as well as in fulfilling its social and environmental obligations.

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