1.2 The Environmental Impacts of the Mining Industry (a) The Positive Impacts of Mining Sustainable mining activity has enormous positive impacts, such as: providing employment ... gold, marble, limestone and others (Fayemi, 2015; Musa, 2013; EITI, 2015). The core of these
These environmental concerns have brought about the need for sustainable Environment Management Plan in the mining sector, so as to reduce environmental degradation during operation as well as ...
Limestone mining activities lead to environmental changes to a large extent. It is therefore imperative that a systematic study on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is carried out to...
WHAT IS EIA? Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a critical examination of the effects of a project on the environment. An EIA identifies both negative and positive impacts of any development activity or project, how it …
The aim of this project is to determine the environmental impact assessment of limestone quarrying in Ini Local Government Area of AkwaIbom state, interpret findings, analyze implications, and convey high level results and implications to national decision-makers for sustainable and better environment of all limestone deposit areas in Nigeria.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a superior tool use for assessing environmental changes in the opencast limestone mining region. In mining and its development, there is currently ...
Did you know limestone mining is a serious environmental hazard and health hazard? Find out how it affects the planet and how you can reduce the impact.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a superior tool use for assessing environmental changes in the opencast limestone mining region. In mining and its development, there is currently ...
A final point should be noted that data uncertainties in environmental assessment over the complete life cycle of limestone quarrying operation have to be carefully considered. Keywords – Climate change; carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions; environmental impacts; GHG protocol; IMPACT 2002+; limestone mining; life cycle impact assessment (LCA) 1.
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the mining industry in issues related to risk assessment and management, which is confirmed by a significant number of publications and reports devoted to …
The best results were achieved by a quarry whose expansion was recently submitted to the environmental impact assessment process, suggesting that public scrutiny may play a positive role in enhancing rehabilitation practices.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Conducting thorough assessments to identify and evaluate potential environmental impacts associated with mining activities. Environmental Monitoring: Implementing monitoring programs to regularly assess air quality, water quality, noise levels, and other environmental parameters at and around …
Impact Assessment & Mitigation. Evaluate the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the planned project and its alternatives, and then identify the mitigation measures to reduce those impacts. Learn. Impact Management.
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) and environmental management plan (EMP) is a statutory requirement for execution of new mining projects or for expansion of the operating …
This sector-wide impact assessment (SWIA) on limestone, gold and tin mining in Myanmar analyses the impacts of mining of these commodities on the environment, local communities and workers. It covers sector-wide, cumulative and project-level impacts, looking at both the formal and informal parts of the sector. Recommendations are made …
Cost of carbon emissions from vegetation damage in indirect impact areas. Open-pit mining activities lead to soil erosion, water pollution, and atmospheric pollution, which have a serious impact on the ecological environment and the ecological functions of vegetation for carbon sequestration in the mining area vicinity.
Excellence Awards" which also involve non- mining companies in Tanzania. Environmental excellence in mining includes issues related to quality of process management; and ine socio-economic impact on the surrounding localm communities and; environmental management of the mine site including decommissioning.
In this study, we investigated the impact of quarrying as an environmental ethical crisis. The need for the study arose when we realised the deteriorating effect of the quality of life in our community, which is located next to a limestone quarry. To obtain a deeper understanding of the adverse impact on the environment and the quality of life …
Mining and quarrying provide the basic raw materials for sustaining human well-being and are critical for achieving economic developments. At the same time, environmental degradation and its associated social impacts and inequalities have become a grave reality of mining sector that affects all nations, individually and/or …
In addition, environmental impact assessment (EIA), a process of predicting and preventing or mitigating adverse impacts of new development projects, has been a formal legal requirement in the country since 1994 ... Though private agricultural land was approved for the limestone mining, Nirma has to purchase or compensate the …
E. Acheampong, "Impact assessment of mining activities by ashanti goldfields, Bibiani Limited on the Environment and socioeconomic development of bibiani," Undergraduate Dissertation, Faculty of ...
The developmental activity in one country could impact its neighbouring country (Deka, 2021) so it is important to consider the broader or downstream area while studying the environmental impact assessment. The adverse impacts of mines are observed in different Himalayan countries.
Regarding to the four damage categories, 'resources' and 'climate change' categories were the two greatest environmental impacts of the limestone rock …
Results of IMPACT 2002+ analysis showed that per 1 ton crushed limestone rock production, the total depletion of resource and GHGs emissions were 79.6 MJ and 2.76 …
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "A review on environmental impact assessment of limestone mining operations" by Parthiban P. et al.
Environmental impacts of the mineral extraction have been a public concern. Presently, there is widespread global interest in the area of mining and its sustainability that focused on the need to shift mining industry to a more sustainable framework. The aim of this study was to systematically assess all possible environmental and climate change related …
The environmental damage associated with mining is well-known, in terms of land clearing, ecosystem degradation, or water pollution. However, its effect on climate is less frequently considered.
Limestone mining can have local environmental as well as social impacts in many areas of Western India (Ranade 2007). The remotely sensed data used by Rande (2007) to detect the land-use …
This paper attempts to evaluate the mineralogical and chemical composition of sedimentary limestone mine waste alongside its mineral carbonation potential. The limestone mine wastes were recovered as the waste materials after mining and crushing processes and were analyzed for mineral, major and trace metal elements. The major …
In general, exploitation of rock materials, such as limestone or granite exploitation, can cause serious damage to the environment near a mine area. With economic development and the ever-increasing demand for ore resources, mining activities have induced ...
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