The Impact of Mining on the Ghanaian Economy: A
promote environmental sustainability (e) T o investigate the social consequences of mining ac tivities, including social disruptions, conflicts, and community development initiatives; and (f) To ...
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Impacts for half of the world's mining areas are …
Publicly available data on mine production, waste, pollution and consumption of water and energy are widely lacking. A large share of global mineral production might …
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Mining and Its Environmental Impacts | SpringerLink
Mining and Its Environmental Impacts. Jörg Matschullat & Jens Gutzmer. Reference work entry. First Online: 09 May 2019. 1329 Accesses. Part of the book series: …
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Environmental Consequences of the Gold Rush
Environmental Consequences of the Gold Rush. The Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898 was over almost as soon as it began. During two years, thousands of people traveled from the coast to Dawson City. This influx had a lasting impact on the landscape and native people along the route north. ... Modern mining often uses chemicals like …
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Biodiversity conservation threatened by global mining wastes
Mine tailings—the residue remaining after mineral processing—represent a serious risk to the natural environment, and the failure of tailing storage facilities has …
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Environmental consequences of oil production from oil sands
Depending on the depth of the deposit, two different methods of extraction are commonly adopted, namely, surface mining (i.e., digging into shallow deposits) and in ... We estimated that extraction of oil sands in the other deposits included in this study will likely have important environmental consequences, particularly in Canada and ...
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Environmental Impact of Silica and Gypsum Mining
Environmental Consequences of Gypsum Mining. Gypsum mining can lead to various environmental impacts. The extraction process often involves clearing large areas of land, resulting in habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity. The removal of vegetation and topsoil can lead to soil erosion and degradation.
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Mineral resources depletion, environmental degradation, …
Environmental degradation is another issue that is closely linked to the depletion of natural resources (Zakari et al., 2023). The exploitation of minerals and natural resources can have severe environmental consequences. For instance, mining can lead to the destruction of habitats, pollution of water bodies, and soil erosion, among other …
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Environmental impacts of rare earth production | MRS …
Rare earth elements (REEs) are important raw materials for green technologies. However, REE mining and production uses techniques that are often not environmentally sustainable. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well-recognized method for evaluating the environmental impacts of products and technologies. This article provides …
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The Environmental Problems Caused by Mining
Mining is essential for providing resources to support modern societies, but it also has negative impacts on water, land, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Learn about the causes, effects and …
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Extractive industries and the environment: Production, pollution…
Mineral extraction and environmental consequences between past and future. ... Walter and Wagner use the Environmental Justice Atlas to study why in Argentina anti-mining environmental mobilisation has been so successful in suspending or blocking contentious mining projects. Argentinian activism and institutional arrangements deviate …
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Evaluation of Physical Environmental Consequences of Deep-sea Mining
The environmental consequences of deep-sea mining have been a matter of thorough research since the first pilot mining tests in the 1970 th.Despite numerous efforts by the engineering and the scientific community, the technical means for in-situ observation and control as well as the possibilities for onboard or laboratory …
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Impacts for half of the world's mining areas are …
Mining is a crucial industry — from iron and copper to gravel and sand, we depend on it for the basic building blocks of the modern world. It is a fast changing sector, as the clean energy ...
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An Integrated Approach to Assess the Environmental …
Boafo et al. (2019) also postulated that environmental consequences caused by gold mining in Ghana are mainly a result of small-scale mining firms and weak institutional supervision . Besides, the environmental and social impacts of gold mining in Ghana within the last decade are very challenging, with less focus and minimal research …
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The environmental costs of platinum–PGM mining and
An extensive analysis of the environmental consequences of palladium mining and refining was reported by Nuss and Eckelman in 2014, who estimated that 3880 kg of CO2 equivalents are emitted per ...
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ESG risks to global platinum supply: A case study of Mogalakwena Mine
The environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks of mining these metals are seldom acknowledged in energy transition scenarios and pose a risk to future metal supply. Multiple ESG drivers at different scales create direct and indirect pressures and risks to a specific mine site and their interactions across scales create complex …
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A review of sustainable mining and resource management: …
A general synthesis of the collective works discussed above leads to the following general definition: sustainable mining involves the adoption of practices in the mining operations phase that result in environmental and social improvements over traditional resource development methods, so as to reduce negative impacts, while …
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(PDF) Technological Aspects and Environmental Consequences of Mining
technological approaches and environmental. consequences during cryptocurrency mining as. mining is a process of creating new coins, which consumes a significant amount of. resources. 2 ...
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Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the …
Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can …
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Unearthing the Environmental Consequences of Uranium Mining
Proper tailings management is a crucial aspect of mitigating the environmental consequences. Mining companies should employ state-of-the-art tailings management practices, including constructing tailings ponds with robust liners to prevent leakage and regular monitoring for any signs of contamination. Advances in tailings …
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Understanding the impacts of mining on local environments …
These trends have brought major attention to issues of economic inequality, environmental harms of mining, and environmental justice, which is putting pressure …
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Environmental Impacts of Mining
The environmental impacts from mining include: Destruction of natural habitat. Oil, fuel and chemicals spills contaminating surrounding soil, rivers and groundwater resources. Air pollution from mining processing operations. Drainage and runoff from mining sites, including acid mine drainage. Acid mine drainage can go on for thousands of years.
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The Environmental Impacts of Mining: Deforestation, Soil …
Although mining has been an essential economic activity for centuries, it comes with significant environmental impacts. The mining industry's operations …
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The social and environmental complexities of extracting energy
The ESG risk context is modelled using seven dimensions. These include three environmental dimensions (waste, water and conservation); three social dimensions (land uses, communities and social ...
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Mining and Its Environmental Impacts | SpringerLink
The environmental impact of mining is the influence that mining activities have on the natural conditions and world in which humans and all biota live. The impact may involve diverse forms of environmental change or damage, from short- to long-term effects and from highly spatially restricted to long-distance consequences. Just as any kind of ...
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Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research …
For example, mining is often considered to have insignificant consequences for biodiversity relative to other threatening processes …
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4 MINING AND THE ENVIROMENT
Challenge #5: To develop better data on the environmental consequences of mining, on the costs of environmental compliance, and on the best practices in environmental management of mining. Much of the discussion about mining and its environmental consequences is based on anecdotal and partial information.
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The Environmental Impact of Mining (Different …
Mining can often be devastating — causing water acidification, soil erosion and the degradation of local ecosystems. While some methods have less impact than others, it almost always has a …
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The Environmental Impacts of Mining: Deforestation, Soil …
This article explores the environmental impacts of mining in detail and their adverse effects on human health and the environment. Deforestation: Mining requires large areas of land for operations, which often results in deforestation. Clearing forests for mining can result in the loss of biodiversity and habitat destruction. Deforestation can ...
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Examining the Environmental Impacts of Open-Cut Mining …
Comparing open-cut and underground mining, as the demand for natural resources continues to rise, it is essential to understand the environmental impacts of these mining methods to make informed decisions about resource extraction. In this article, we will delve into the environmental consequences of open-cut mining and underground mining ...
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