how coal mining influences the environment

The impacts of coal mining on the karst water environment in Jiaozuo coal mining area can be roughly divided into the three main aspects: damage of land and water resource, geological disasters and environmental pollution. ... Niu L, Chen L, Jiang SG et al (2014) Study on influence of coal mining on aquifer: a case study on diggings in …

Specifically, the project seeks to answer how the expansion of seawater desalination by the mining industry is affecting local populations, and how climate …

Coal mining activities are causing an extensive range of environmental issues at both operating and abandoned mine sites. It is one of the most environmentally destructive practices, with the capability to eliminate fauna and flora, impact the groundwater system, and pollute the soil, air, and water. The Czech Republic relies almost exclusively on coal …

Abstract. Coal mining can significantly impact vegetation evolution, yet the limited information on its patterns and driving factors hampers efforts to mitigate these …

Coal mining disturbs surface ecosystems in coal mining subsidence areas. Based on the groundwater–surface composite ecosystem analysis, we constructed an ecological disturbance evaluation index system (18 indices) in a coal mining subsidence area using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Taking the Nalinhe mining area in …

The backfilling mining method that fills gobs with coal gangue can prevent water inrush hazards, protect groundwater resources, and protect the ecological environment of the mining area. However, initial conditions including the particle size distribution of gangue and the stress environment may affect the seepage …

ARTICLE. Coal is a nonrenewable fossil fuel that is combusted and used to generate electricity. Mining techniques and combustion are both dangerous to …

Copper mining can serve as a case study to analyse the measurable pathways by which mining contributes to climate change through direct and indirect …

To deal with the environmental consequences of replacing coal import by domestic mining, accurately quantifying environmental impact of the potential alternative is an essential prerequisite. Some accessed environmental damage by simulating carbon emission changes due to the ban, and noted that cutting off coal will increase Chinese …

Coal mining increases the risk of loosening top soils into streams and waterways and the sediments pollute our water and can smother plant life downstream and even kill fish. …

The mining industry plays a significant role in economic growth and development. Coal is a viable renewable energy source with 185.175 billion deposits in Thar, which has not been deeply explored. Although coal is an energy source and contributes to economic development, it puts pressure on environmental sustainability. …

The South Kalimantan Province is an area with abundant deposits of coal and contributes 16.36 per cent. to the national coal stock. Coal mining is a profitable business. It creates employment, generates value, and improves the foreign investment of a country or region.

1. Introduction. Coal as the vital basic energy resource is critical to all over the world, 37% of the world's electricity and over 70% of the world's steel is produced using coal (World Coal Association, 2020, Clark and Zipper, 2016).However, coal mining activities are usually accompanied with severe damage to natural ecosystems and …

Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach to environmental assessment of coal mining operations, which enables assessment of the factors that are both directly and indirectly affecting the environment and are associated with the production of raw materials and energy used in processes. The primary novelty of the …

The coal fed Japan's growing steel industry, and in the decades of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, change was afoot. Switching from a majority of underground to open-cut mines in New South Wales and ...

Use of such. inferior grade of coal causes serious ecological problems. The following environmental impacts due to coal mining are discussed in this paper. 1. Impact of coal mining on landform. 2 ...

Extractive industries, mainly the coal mining, generate negative impacts in the local ecological conditions, which adversely affect the local economy and threaten the sustainability of local livelihood …

Coal mining, however, also influences coalfield communities in other ways. Despite significant worker health and safety advances, coal mining remains a hazardous occupation (Zipper et al. 2021; Gohlke 2021). Coal mining affects the environment both within and beyond the mine site's borders, even when the best …

There are two interpretations that could potentially explain the distinctions of groundwater pH in two coal mine areas associated with coal mining activities: (i) the influx of lower pH water from overlying aquifers or/and surface water bodies as a result of hydraulic pathway formed during the coal mining activities (Huang et al. 2018; Qu et al ...

To separate the influences of a general global warming pattern from the regional influences of mining-induced emission and surface heating can hardly be achieved. ... Kuenzer, C., Strunz, G., Voigt, S., Wagner, W. (2004). Multitemporal landcover investigations in a semi-arid mining environment: coal fire areas in Northern China. In: …

This study investigates the effects of coal mining on environmental sustainability in South Africa in relation to the moderating role of institutions. To achieve the study's objectives, the ...

The long-term and continuous mining of coal deteriorates the natural environment as it sheds negative influences on the nearby water bodies and soil. 10 However, the regular disposal of millions of wastewater into the nearby water bodies is the main cause of pollution of water. 25 More specifically, the release of chemical particles …

The environmental changes caused by coal mining activities caused disturbances to the plant, soil, and microbial health in the mining area. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play an important ...

Still, the urgency of climate change action demands the world to reduce coal use without carbon capture and storage quickly, and cease it over coming decades 6.Yet, focusing on the environmental ...

Mining, whether for fossil fuels or metals used in clean energy technologies, has serious environmental impacts, and it's hard to make apples-to-apples …

The coordinated exploitation of coal resources and water resources in ecologically fragile mining area is the key factor to improve the ecological environment of coal mining areas, Gu proposed the use of coal mine longwall goaf for building underground water reservoirs.This technology can not only facilitate the realization of the …

The eco-environment quality (EEQ) of the study area is affected by both human and natural factors. Mining intensity and surface subsidence are the main human factors affecting the ecological ...

Nuisance for the people living in areas covered by the direct or indirect impact of the mining industry is an important social problem. The development of the mining industry depends on high environmental requirements, in particular, it is closely related to the fulfillment of obligations of safety for human health and life.

The Clean Air Act and The Clean Water Act require industries to reduce pollutants released into the air and water. The coal industry has found several ways to reduce sulfur and other impurities from coal. The industry has also found more effective ways of cleaning coal after it is mined, … See more

The implementation of the reclamation for former coal. mining land is often time ineffective due to s everal. factors, including (1) weak c ommunity parti cipation, (2) applied technology errors ...

Global extent and composition of mining areas. Mining potentially influences 49.9 million km 2 of Earth's terrestrial land area (37%, excluding Antarctica), assuming impacts extend 50 km from ...

Mining has always been an important part of the Australian economy. What has changed is the unprecedented scale and pace of its expansion. This is already irrevocably altering the Australian landscape and affecting food production, water security and communities across the nation. The coal seam gas fields approved to date in …

Economic factors include energy demand and its growth, the supply and cost of alternative sources of energy, coal quality and the cost of coal preparation, the selling price of coal, advancements in technology that …

In 2008, the coal production has reached 2.72 billion tons. Long-time and intensive mining has caused spatiotemporal cumulative effects on soil, water, air environment, and ecosystem, which include ground subsidence, hydrodynamics change, land use change, soil pollution, air pollution, and ecosystem evolution etc.

Mining involves extensive clearing of ground cover, change in physiography, generation of massive solid and liquid wastes to reach coal and thereby …

Increasing energy costs and energy demand have renewed global interest in clean coal technologies. Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is an industrial process that converts coal into product gas. UCG is a promising technology with a lot of health, safety and environmental advantages over conventional mining techniques. UCG carries risks to …

Globally, the coal mining industry alone employs about 8 million people and creates revenues of more than US$900 billion a year 2. While growth in coal …

FACTORS HINDERING COAL MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA. REDUCED DEMAND Negative views on coal and its environmental impact have resulted in a major decline in its use by the major economies of the world. Because of coal's contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, many countries have put in place strict environmental laws which …

Coal mining - Extraction, Processing, Pollution: In geologic terms, coal is a sedimentary rock containing a mixture of constituents, mostly of vegetal origin. Vegetal matter is composed mainly of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and some inorganic mineral elements. When this material decays under water, in the absence of oxygen, the carbon …

Coal is an important resource that has supported China's economic development. This situation is expected to continue in the immediate future. However, coal mining has also led to serious environmental disasters in some mining areas. Henan Province is one of the 14 large-scale coal bases that are planned by the Chinese state. It …