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Ground Water Contamination in Coal Mining Areas

2020-4-16 · Ground Water Contamination in Coal Mining Areas: A Critical Review 70 ijeas.org mine fires, damage to forest flora and fauna, wildlife habitat destruction and occupational health hazards (Singh et. al.2011 Ahanger et. al,. 2011) Mining is a major anthropogenic activity causing water ...

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Soil contamination and human health risks in coal mining ...

Request PDF | On Jan 1, 2007, R.E. Masto and others published Soil contamination and human health risks in coal mining environs | Find, read and cite all

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Coal and Water Pollution | Union of Concerned Scientists

2017-12-6 · Coal mining. Mining operations can negatively impact water supplies, often with long-lasting effects. The fundamental issue involves contamination of nearby rivers, lakes, and aquifers by what comes out of a coal mine—usually highly acidic water containing heavy metals like arsenic, copper, and lead. The process is known as acid mine drainage.It happens when

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Effect of coal mine soil contamination on the elemental ...

The impact of coal mine dump contaminated soil on the elemental uptake by two edible plants, namely, Amaranthus dubius (red herbs) and Amaranthus hybridus (green herbs), was studied by investigating their response and ability to tolerate and accumulate varying levels of elements in their roots and s

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Geochemical sources of metal contamination in a coal ...

2018-4-1 · A common feature in many coal mining areas is the strategic presence of other coal-dependent industries like thermal power corporations, iron, steel and aluminium adjacent to the coal mines. While economically viable, the presence of such coal based industries adjacent to the coal fields has a cumulative detrimental impact on the local area.

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Contamination and health risks of heavy metals in street ...

2017-4-1 · Investigations of the contamination and health risks of heavy metals in street dust from coal-mining cities are therefore necessary. We examined Huainan, a coal-mining city in eastern China, as a case study. Our primary aim is to investigate the concentrations and distribution of eight metals in street dust from different functional areas in ...

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Characteristics of water contamination in abandoned

2021-11-30 · water on surface water following the closure of a coal mine in Yudong River mining area of Kaili City, Guizhou Province. The large-scale exploitation of coal resources in Yudong River area began in the early 1980s. The Permian Liang-shan Formation of the regional coal-bearing strata features a coal seam with a thickness of 0.6–1.3 m and a dip ...

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Invisible contaminants and food security in former coal ...

2020-8-14 · Mining activities have environmental impacts due to sediment movement and contamination of areas and may also pose risks to people’s food security. In Brazil, the majority of coal mining activities are in the south, in the Santa Catarina carboniferous region. In this region, previously mined areas contaminated with heavy metals frequently occur nearby inhabited zones.

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Coal mine contamination already high in some Alberta ...

2021-1-25 · Mining opponents point across the boundary into British Columbia, where selenium from coal mines in the Elk Valley has created serious contamination problems. The lingering contamination from the three Alberta mines shows the stakes are high, said Donahue. "These pollution problems have persisted long after the closure of coal mines."

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Impact of the Coal Mining on the Spatial Distribution of ...

2018-10-8 · Coal mining areas are prone to hazardous element contamination because of mining activities and the resulting wastes, mainly including Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb. This study collected 103 samples ...

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POLLUTION IN COAL MINING AND MITIGATION

2019-2-4 · Methane emission from coal mining depends on the mining methods, depth of coal mining, coal quality and entrapped gas content in coal seams. (2) Water pollution: The major source of water pollution in the coal mines is the carry over of the suspended solids in the drainage system of the mine sump water and storm water drainage. In some of

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Coal mine contamination already high in some Alberta ...

2021-1-25 · Mining opponents point across the boundary into British Columbia, where selenium from coal mines in the Elk Valley has created serious contamination problems. The lingering contamination from the three Alberta mines shows the stakes are high, said Donahue. "These pollution problems have persisted long after the closure of coal mines."

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The Environmental Impacts of Coal

2021-2-15 · Coal mining Coal mining causes extensive degradation to natural ecosystems such as forests and can scar the landscape irreparably. Damage to humans, animals and plants, occurs due to habitat destruction and environmental contamination. Mine wastes Mine wastes are generated in huge quantities and must be disposed of. The wastes are flammable

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Seasonal Assessment of Groundwater Contamination in

2020-7-11 · Balochistan is a semi-arid region. The assessment of water quality is very important, as the majority of people depend on groundwater for drinking purposes. The present study involves the quality assessment and mapping of drinking water in the five selected major coal mining sites in the four districts of Balochistan. A total of 50 samples were collected from these

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(PDF) Assessment of Underground Water

Mining waste are produced during the mining of mineral resources in mines and coal mines, and are a mixture of water and powdered mineral and possibly of heavy metals as by-products (Stamatis et ...

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From Canadian Coal Mines, Toxic Pollution That Knows No ...

2019-4-1 · Miners have excavated coal from the Canadian side of the watershed since the 1800s. In the past 40 years, large-scale, open-pit mining has come to dominate the region — a technique that involves stripping away layers of rock to get at coal deposits deeper in the earth.

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Coal waste - Global Energy Monitor

2021-6-7 · Coal mining and coal combustion in power plants produce several types of wastes: The mining process itself produces waste coal or solid mining refuse, which is a mixture of coal and rock.; The mining process also produces liquid coal waste, which is then stored in impoundments.; Pollution control equipment used for coal combustion produces coal ash or fly

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U.S. Waterways Polluted by Coal Mining |

2019-1-22 · Coal mining is a practice that negatively impacts all kinds of waterways from rivers, streams, lakes and drinking water supplies. The tendency among the large public is to associate coal with having damaging effects on

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Environmental critics ask why Alberta kept coal ...

2021-1-26 · On Monday, The Canadian Press reported on analysis of coal mine contamination in the Gregg and McLeod Rivers and Luscar Creek near Jasper, Alta., dating back to the 1990s. It found toxic levels of selenium many times over the amount considered safe for aquatic life.

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Water pollution from coal - Global Energy Monitor

2022-2-5 · Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge,

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Chemical contamination and mining | NIWA

2022-1-25 · What are the potential sources of chemical contamination from mining activities? Surface and groundwaters associated with mines are often affected by acidification. Acid mine drainage (AMD) is recognised as one of

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Coal mine contamination already high in some Alberta ...

2021-1-25 · Mining opponents point across the boundary into British Columbia, where selenium from coal mines in the Elk Valley has created serious contamination problems. The lingering contamination from the three Alberta mines shows the stakes are high, said Donahue. "These pollution problems have persisted long after the closure of coal mines."

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Contaminant from coal mines already high in

2021-1-25 · File: Mead Gruver, The Canadian Press. Some Alberta rivers and streams have already been heavily contaminated by coal mining, unreported government data suggests. The province’s plan for large ...

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Seasonal Assessment of Groundwater Contamination in

2020-7-11 · Balochistan is a semi-arid region. The assessment of water quality is very important, as the majority of people depend on groundwater for drinking purposes. The present study involves the quality assessment and mapping of drinking water in the five selected major coal mining sites in the four districts of Balochistan. A total of 50 samples were collected from these

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Coal waste - Global Energy Monitor

2021-6-7 · Coal mining and coal combustion in power plants produce several types of wastes: The mining process itself produces waste coal or solid mining refuse, which is a mixture of coal and rock.; The mining process also produces liquid coal waste, which is then stored in impoundments.; Pollution control equipment used for coal combustion produces coal ash or fly

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From Canadian Coal Mines, Toxic Pollution That Knows No ...

2019-4-1 · Miners have excavated coal from the Canadian side of the watershed since the 1800s. In the past 40 years, large-scale, open-pit mining has come to dominate the region — a technique that involves stripping away layers of rock to get at coal deposits deeper in the earth.

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U.S. Waterways Polluted by Coal Mining |

2019-1-22 · Coal mining is a practice that negatively impacts all kinds of waterways from rivers, streams, lakes and drinking water supplies. The tendency among the large public is to associate coal with having damaging effects on

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An integrated approach to quantify ecological and human ...

Coal mining areas are highly vulnerable to trace metals contamination from mining activities and resulting wastes (Sahoo et al., 2016; Xiao et al., 2020). Heavy metals are the primary concern pollutants as their toxicity is a problem of increasing significance for ecological, nutritional, and environmental reasons ( du Preez and van Huyssteen ...

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The Coal Mine Abandonment and Reclamation Crisis

2021-6-15 · The Coal Mine Abandonment and Reclamation Crisis Peter Morgan - Senior Attorney, Sierra Club The US coal mining industry is experiencing a dramatic decline from its peak in 2008. US Coal Production peaked in 2008 at 1,171.8 million tons. 1 2019 production was 706 million tons, the lowest since 1978. ...

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Uranium Contamination of Water in the United States

2017-1-18 · Since the 1950s, uranium mining, coal mining, and coal-fired power plants have been depositing harmful contaminants into Navajo water sources. Some issues of significance include contamination by the Peabody Coal mining on Black Mesa, pollution from radioactive tailings from Cold War uranium mining, and the 2015 Gold King Mine wastewater spill.

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