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  • (PDF) Restoration of Degraded Land in Coal Mine Areas of ...

    Restoration of Degraded Land in Coal Mine Areas of Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya through Phytoremediation January 2020 In book: Soil and Water Conservation Bulletin, No. 4 (pp.17-24)

  • Reclamation of Degraded Landscapes due to Opencast Mining

    Reclamation of Degraded Landscapes due to Opencast Mining. Even though it is regarded as a crucial economic activity worldwide, mining has a significant negative impact on environment. Due to its nature, especially opencast mining inevitably leads to serious degradation on …

  • Establishment, Growth, and Yield Potential of the ...

    The aim of this study was to investigate the potential for growing Miscanthus on extremely marginal soils, degraded by open lignite (brown coal) mining. Field experiments were established within three blocks situated on waste heaps originating from the lignite mine.

  • Grass-Legume Seeding: A Sustainable Approach Towards ...

    Coal mining is usually associated with land degradation and the excavated toxic waste materials create serious environmental and socio-economic problems in the adjoining areas. The most severe post-mining impact on the ecosystem are environmental damage such as deforestation, air and water pollution, detoriation of topsoil quality, loss of ...

  • (PDF) Impact of Coal Mining on Environment

    Coal mining is usually associated with the degradation of natural resources and the destruction of habitat. This causes invasive species to occupy the area, thus posing a …

  • Effects Of Mining on the Environment and Human Health

    In China, coal mining has degraded the quality of land of an estimated 3.2 million hectares, according to a 2004 estimate. The overall restoration rate (the ratio of reclaimed land area to the total degraded land area) of mine wasteland was only about 10–12 percent. Underground mining

  • Mining in Mabola: The slow violence of environmental ...

    VOICES If coal mining is allowed to go ahead in the Mabola Protected Environment (MPE) near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga, it will result in a predictable form of environmental violence for local communities. The project will also lead to geographically dispersed and intergenerational environmental violence for South Africans, due to greenhouseContinue Reading

  • Degraded Image Enhancement Using Dual-Domain-Adaptive ...

    A novel enhancement algorithm for degraded image using dual-domain-adaptive wavelet and improved fuzzy transform is proposed, aiming at the problem of surveillance videos degradation caused by the complex lighting conditions underground coal mine. Firstly, the dual-domain filtering (DDF) is used to decompose the image into base image and detail image, and the contrast …

  • OSMRE Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands

    The U.S. Government's Official Website for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). OSMRE's business practices are to reclaim abandoned mine lands (Title IV), regulate active coal mines (Title V), and apply sound science through technology transfer.

  • Managing and Reforesting Degraded Post-Mining Landscape in ...

    Mining is one of the most important economic sectors in Indonesia. Mining products contribute up to 17% per year of Indonesia's total export value, and from several major mining products, coal mining contributes a value of 87.27% [].Data from verified resources and reserves as of December 2019 showed that coal mining had the potential to reach 88,338.66 and 25,070.50 million tons, respectively.

  • Natural regeneration on land degraded by coal mining in a ...

    Such studies would assist in informing ecological restoration of these degraded sites. Here, a chronosequence approach was used to investigate early-stage primary succession on overburden spoil wastes derived from coal mining in a tropical climate over a 64-month period.

  • Energies | Free Full-Text | A Method for Assessing the ...

    20 Due to the withdrawal of coal from power generation in the EU, mining companies in Poland are forced to adapt their production to the decreasing demand. Forecasting the volume of demand plays an important role in planning the volume of the mine's output. The demand for coal is constantly changing, with a downward trend. This article presents a method that allows to assess the impact of …

  • Bacterial degradation of coal discard and geologically ...

    12%The biodegradation of coal discard is being intensively studied in South Africa in an effort to develop passive methods for the successful revegetation and rehabilitation of waste dumps, to mitigate pollution, and facilitate mine closure. Bacteria were isolated from slurries of coal tailings and diesel-contaminated soil, screened for coal biodegradation competence, …

  • Land Subsidence in a Coal Mining Area Reduced Soil ...

    These results indicated that land subsidence induced by coal mining caused losses in surface soil water and nutrients, and ultimately led to soil quality degradation. Therefore, the reclamation of mining subsidence land might be necessary, especially in arid and semi-arid areas.

  • ‪Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management ...

    Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management 2 (1), 211., 2014. 49. 2014. Effects of biochar amendment and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation on availability of soil phosphorus and growth of maize. AE Mau, SR Utami. Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands …

  • Coal Mining - FWS

    Mountaintop coal mining is a type of surface mining that removes mountaintops to expose coal seams and discards the overburden in adjacent "valley fills." Valley fills occur in steep terrain where there are limited disposal alternatives. Abandoned mine lands are degraded lands and waters that are inadequately reclaimed after surface coal mining ...

  • Revegetation of coal mine degraded arid areas: The role of ...

    Ecological restoration of coal mine degraded soils across arid and semi-arid environments worldwide remains particularly challenging. We used a combination of greenhouse and field experiments to assess the potential role of a woody species, Ulmus pumila, in the restoration of degraded soils associated with coal-mining activities in the northwest China.

  • LAND DEGRADATION DUE TO MINING AND ITS REMEDIAL …

    The coal mines of Coal India Limited (CIL) removed about 500 million cubic m (Mcum) of overburden (OB) to produce 260 mt of coal in 2003-04 at an average stripping ratio of 1.92 cu m of OB against per tonne of coal production [4]. As demand for coal increases to meet the country's energy requirement, the coal companies are

  • Ecological Restoration of Coal Mine Degraded Lands ...

    on Ecological Restoration of Coal Mine Degraded Lands. The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER 2004) defines ecological restoration as 'the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged or destroyed'. The process of natural succession, which happens concurrently with ecosystem development takes time.

  • The reinvention of the last coal mine in Beijing - CGTN

    For hundreds of years, the mine was a lifeline for residents in Beijing – more than 30 percent of the coal used in Beijing came from Datai coal mine before the mine was closed in 2019. In the late 1990s, the mine started to provide coal for overseas markets. …

  • Restoration of Mined Areas | Ecological Restoration

    The problem of acid mine drainage is sustained and amplified by continued increase in coal mining activities in different parts of the world. All this suggests the necessity of restoration of the degraded mined environment.

  • Mining and Water Pollution — Safe Drinking Water Foundation

    As mine technologies are developed to make it more profitable to mine low grade ore, even more waste will be generated in the future. Waste from the Mining Process Ore is mineralized rock containing a valued metal such as gold or copper, or other mineral substance such as coal.

  • Coal Mining and Local Environment: A Study in Talcher ...

    The reasons behind environmental degradation. The impact of coal mining on local environment including air and water. Materials and Methods. This study was conducted in MCL region of Odisha, India. Mahanadi Coalfield Limited, a subsidiary of CIL, is divided into 3 parts as per its functioning areas, such as Talcher, Ib Valley, and Vasundhara.

  • Mining in the Amazon: Importance, impacts, and challenges ...

    Development of Technosol properties and recovery of carbon stock after 16 years of revegetation on coal mine degraded lands, India Catena, 166 ( 2018 ), pp. 114 - 123, 10.1016/j.catena.2018.03.026

  • Mining in Mabola: The slow violence of environmental ...

    The localised environmental problems that coal mining in the MPE will cause are well-documented and acknowledged by the mine's supporters. The mine's social and labour plan (SLP) notes that coal mining will generate dust, noxious gases and smoke, noise, vibrations, traffic, and the "contamination of surface and groundwater on downstream water users".

  • Environmental impacts of coal - Global Energy Monitor

    Loss or degradation of groundwater - Since coal seams are often serve as underground aquifers, removal of coal beds may result in drastic changes in hydrology after mining has been completed. Radical disturbance of 8.4 million acres of farmland, rangeland, and forests, most of which has not been reclaimed -- See The footprint of coal

  • Soil attributes in coal mining areas under recovery with ...

    Therefore, the objective of this work was to characterize the chemical features and to evaluate the soil microbiological attributes in areas degraded by coal mining and under recovery using bracatinga as cover plant.

  • Basic Information about Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia ...

    Surface coal mining involves: removing parts or all of mountaintops to expose buried seams of coal, and. "interburden" (rock between coal seams). Overburden and interburden are disposed of in adjacent valleys because the broken rock will not all fit back into the mining pit, and disposal alternatives are limited.

  • RECOVERY of degraded and transformed ecosystems in coal ...

    Recovery Project (funded by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel) focuses on land rehabilitation and ecological restoration of coal mining-affected areas, ai...

  • Managing and Reforesting Degraded Post-Mining Landscape in ...

    Tropical forests are among the most diverse ecosystems in the world, completed by huge biodiversity. An expansion in natural resource extraction through open-pit mining activities leads to increasing land and tropical forest degradation. Proper science-based practices are needed as an effort to reclaim their function. This paper summarizes the existing practice of coal mining, covering the ...

  • Coal: A Complex Natural Resource - USGS

    Coal—A Complex Natural Resource. An overview of of factors affecting coal quality and use in the United States. Coal is abundant in the U.S., is relatively inexpensive, and is an excellent source of energy and byproduct raw materials. Because of these factors, domestic coal is the primary source of fuel for electric power plants in the U.S ...

  • How Anthracite Coal Production Affected the Great ...

    Surface mining, or open pit mining, is another way to extract coal. This method is conducted on hillsides and is visible from the exterior. In open pit mining, exposed coal is blasted and then removed by giant shovels (Edmunds, 2002). Surface mining exposes the coal by a means of striping away the ground concealing it (Clark, 2011).

  • Reclamation of Soils Degraded by Surface Coal Mining ...

    The largest Brazilian coal mine, called Candiota mine, is located in South Brazil, with an estimated reserve about 1.2 billion tons. Since late 2003, an experiment located at a reclaimed site in a coal mining area was conducted, in which a research group from the Federal University of Pelotas has been conducting a long-term experiment on soil quality with different plants species, such as ...