Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining …
Migrant labour-related problems are deep-seated within the mining industry, and mine occupational health professionals need to become actively engaged with management on these issues. Oscillating migration is a risk factor for work-related disease and falls within the scope of occupational health services.
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Environmental Risks of Mining
When companies break up materials during mining, the dust can release a variety of heavy metals commonly associated with health problems. As dust, these minerals (such as the asbestos-like mineral riebeckite) can be absorbed into lung tissue, causing problems like pneumoconiosis and silicosis, commonly known as "Black Lung" (Paul & Campbell, 2011).
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Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research …
2. The many ways mining activities impact biodiversity. Mining affects biodiversity at multiple spatial scales (site, landscape, regional and global) through direct (i.e. mineral extraction) and indirect …
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Health Issues of Mining Workers: Provisions and Challenges …
This paper assessed the impact of mining operations on the health of mining workers. Additionally, the challenges faced by mine workers due to health issues and provisions arranged by mines for workers' healthcare were analysed from the social work and human rights perspectives. A cross-sectional study was conducted in a …
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A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining Worldwide
Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, tin, lithium, rare earth elements, tantalum, and cobalt, and any other usable commodity, for …
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The 5 biggest challenges facing the mining sector
In the five years since the Mount Polly mine disaster, British Columbia's mining industry has focused on tailings pond management and obtaining social licence for resource extraction projects.
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Cobalt Mining: The Dark Side of the Energy Transition
Cobalt mining, however, is associated with dangerous workers' exploitation and other serious environmental and social issues. As such, questions have arisen as to whether the transition to electric vehicles and cobalt-based batteries is yet another example of environmental problem-shifting and what a renewable energy transition without cobalt ...
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(PDF) MINING IN PALAWAN: EFFECT ON ENVIRONMENT
Its terrain is 63 percent hilly to mountainous, with only 37 percent flatlands. (SPER, 2015).[22] Furthermore, Palawan also has been declared as having rich deposits of minerals. However, acknowledging the economic contributions of Mining, several economies lost sight of the environmental effects associated with mining activities.
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Ghana's informal mining harms health and the land – but …
They are short-lived and unplanned. They do not address the underlying causes of the problems associated with informal mining. The artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector in Ghana is complicated.
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Negative Effects of Coal Mining
The problem is that huge amounts of earth and rock are brought up from the bowels of the earth. These mining wastes can become toxic when they are exposed to air and water. Examples of toxins are mercury, arsenic, fluorine and selenium. The amount of dust generated in mining operations can be carried to nearby towns by the wind.
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Coal Mine Dust Exposures and Associated Health …
hour work week; 2. Exposures to respirable crystalline silica should be limited to 0.05 mg/m3 as a time-weighted average concentration for up to a 10 hour day during a 40 hour work week; 3. The periodic medical examination for coal miners should include spirometry; 4. Periodic medical examinations should include a standardized respiratory
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Proof of problems: Bitcoin mining's pollution toll on U.S.
Once-dead coal-fired power plants roaring back to life and spewing hazardous emissions, overheating trout chopped up by utility water pipes, nonstop low-frequency noise – these are just some of the ways bitcoin mining is polluting communities across the U.S.. In six case studies, EWG profiles how a cryptocurrency mining process known as "proof of …
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CDC
We provide solutions for miners working in the five major mining subsectors: metals, industrial minerals, crushed stone, coal, and sand and gravel (see Appendix B). Our work extends to surface and underground operations, along with associated plants, mills, shops, and offices. Purpose of the Strategic Plan
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A brief review paper on mining subsidence and its geo …
1.1. Survey technique. The use of surveying techniques for detecting mining subsidence is a long-standing and conventional approach. Such methods typically involve the measurement of changes in elevation of reference points on the ground surface, before, during or after mining activities.
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Health impacts of industrial mining on surrounding …
• The mining sponsors for medical treatment for children who have midomo ya sungura [open-cleft] (TZ3_L3) • These diseases now are full and it is different from the past, the topic of «rheumatism» is created because of the dust (MZ2.1_L2) • I was working in the mining but later they discovered that I have sight problem (TZ1_L3) Mortality
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CDC
The Miner Health Program's Mission is to identify, develop, and promote health solutions that maximize miner protection, minimize harmful exposures, and prevent disease.. This mission will be accomplished by achieving our Vision of sustained health and well-being for all miners throughout their working years and retirement.. Successful …
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Underground Mining Techniques and Risks
It's wise for an investor to understand both the basic workings for an underground mine and the risks associated with underground mining. A bad mine disaster may not only kill miners; it can also bankrupt companies and close mines permanently. ... The most common mining method is longwall mining which is largely automated using …
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'Cobalt Red' describes the 'horror show' of mining the …
"People are working in subhuman, grinding, degrading conditions. They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt ...
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South Africa's Miners Addressing Climate Change Challenges …
South African mining companies are facing increased pressure to address their environmental impact. If a more strategic and holistic approach is taken, they can leverage the uncertainty of climate change to their advantage and improve their global competitiveness.
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The DRC Mining Industry: Child Labor and Formalization …
Small-scale mining in the DRC involves people of all ages, including children, obligated to work under harsh conditions. Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children, some as young as six years. Much of the work is informal small-scale mining in which laborers earn less than $2 per day while using their own tools, primarily ...
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The Environmental Problems Caused by Mining
A village was set up to support 15,000 miners working in the ruby mine near Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar. Photo: Pardieu et al. (2017). However, compared to many other industries such as agriculture, …
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Hazards identified and the need for health risk assessment …
Although mining is a cornerstone of the South African economy (), it generates copious amounts of dust. 1 The dusts may be toxic since they may also be contaminated with various toxic metals.For this reason, the prevalence and severity of occupational diseases in the mining industry depends on the ores mined, the …
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Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the effectiveness of mining
Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it may also cause …
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Understanding the impacts of mining on local environments …
By working with communities in mining areas, Odell and Fernández are gaining a sense of the burden that mining minerals needed for the clean energy …
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Evolutionary and Revolutionary Technologies for Mining
Chapter 3 identified technologies that will benefit major components of the industry in the areas of exploration, mining, and processing. This chapter discusses concerns for potential new health hazards arising from the introduction of new technology. At the beginning of the twentieth century approximately 3,000 coal miners and 1,000 metal/nonmetal workers …
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A Review of Health Issues Related to Child Labor and …
More ASM mining will involve more associated health risks, and less mining will further exacerbate problems of poverty. Some scholars advocate against blanket child labor prohibitions. With sweatshops in clothing industries, Powell ( 2014a ) argued that children work there because it was the best option available to them and their families.
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Some Challenges of Deep Mining
An increased global supply of minerals is essential to meet the needs and expectations of a rapidly rising world population. This implies extraction from greater depths. Autonomous mining systems, developed through sustained R&D by equipment suppliers, reduce miner exposure to hostile work environments and increase safety.
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Mining is bad for health: a voyage of discovery
Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, give rise to a range of diseases that affect miners. I look at mining and health from various …
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Mental health in mine workers: a literature review
According to Street et al. 23), job stress was associated with an average of 33.6% work impairment and $45,240.70 ... In order to summarize the evidence, to help knowing about the mental health related problems at mining work and to bridge the existing gap in literature review on the theme, this study presents the results of scoping …
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Mining industry challenges: Five initiatives for …
Mining and metals companies today must contend with various geopolitical risks, supply chain risks, and target-market risks, but many do so from a strong financial position. For their companies to …
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