Metalliferous Mine Dust: Human Health Impacts and the
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a slowly progressing disease characterised by a gradual loss of lung function, causes 4% of overall global disease burden [41••]. The most important risk factor is active smoking, but other risk factors are occupational or environmental (including coal and hard-rock mining), and socio …
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Frontiers | Effects of Water Pollution on Human Health and Disease …
Skin diseases in swimmers may be caused by a variety of pathogenic microorganisms (Yau et al., 2009). People (swimmers and non-swimmers) exposed to waters above threshold levels of bacteria had a higher relative risk of developing skin disease, and levels of bacteria in seawater were highly correlated with skin symptoms.
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(PDF) The dynamics and livelihood implications of …
Abstract. Discourses on "illegal" or informal small‐scale mining (galamsey) have presented it largely as a menace. Using Ghana as the focus of our study, we present a counter‐narrative to ...
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Skin Diseases in Miners | SpringerLink
The occupation of mining has a great risk of injury as well as a disease (McIvor and Johnston 2016).Miners are exposed to various factors like heat, noise, dust, and certain chemicals that over the period of time exposure to such substances can lead to a disease (Prüss-Ustün et al. 2011).One such disease is the skin infection that may disrupt …
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Mining fatalities reach a new low of 49; injuries, disease also …
South Africa's mining industry suffered 49 fatalities in 2022 – a 34% improvement on the 74 fatalities of 2021 and a record low, thereby continuing the downward trend many in the mining ...
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Environmental impact and health risk assessment due to coal mining …
Four case studies are presented on the topic of groundwater impact caused by coal mining. Zhao et al. investigated the impact of coal mining on both groundwater and surface ecosystems.It explores how coal mining activities can lead to disturbances in the natural balance of groundwater systems and surface ecosystems.
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Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal …
The process of gold mining. The process by which gold is mined and extracted involves four steps. First, gold ore is excavated from the soil, rock, and surrounding water tributaries either through direct excavation from the earth or through repurposing of old abandoned industrial gold mines and digging around mine shafts. 28 …
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Air Pollution Emissions 2008–2018 from Australian Coal Mining …
1. Introduction. Coal mining is a hazardous occupation, with high risks for both accidents [] and occupational diseases, especially respiratory disease [2,3], compared to other types of work.Occupational disease risks are not restricted to underground miners but extend to surface mining workers as well [4,5].Surface mining workers are exposed …
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Resurgence of Progressive Massive Fibrosis in Coal Miners …
Since then, a resurgence of the disease has occurred, notably in central Appalachia (Figure 1) (1,2). This report describes a cluster of 60 cases of PMF identified in current and former coal miners at a single eastern Kentucky radiology practice during January 2015-August 2016. This cluster was not discovered through the national …
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Health impacts of industrial mining on surrounding …
Industrial mining projects can play an important role in global sustainable development if associated health risks are minimised and opportunities maximised. While a broad body of evidence from quantitative studies exists that establishes the interlinkages between mining operations and effects on public health, little research has been …
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Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) takes place under extreme conditions with a lack of occupational health and safety. As the demand for metals is increasing due in part to their extensive use in 'green technologies' for climate change mitigation, the negative environmental and occupational consequences of mining …
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Aluminium toxicosis: a review of toxic actions and effects
Exposures to Al occur in occupations associated with mining and processing of ore, scrap metal recycling, deployment and use of Al-containing compounds and products, and during engagement in Al metal cutting, sawing, filing and welding. ... Toxicosis associated with Al exposure is the pathological condition or disease caused …
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(PDF) Occupational respiratory disease in mining
Historically, epidemic levels of morbidity and mortality from such diseases have been recorded in mining settings, due to the associated chronic exposure of individuals to dust (Patra et al., 2016 ...
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The impacts of coal dust on miners' health: A review
The most recent evaluation of 30 years' experience in the U.S. Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) showed that about 38% of coal miners with …
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Coal mining and chronic obstructive pulmonary …
Over the last 30 years evidence has accumulated that miners also experience an excess of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and this has led the British Government to classify chronic bronchitis and …
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Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis and Other Mining-Related Lung Disease
Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and other mining-related lung diseases are entirely preventable, yet continue to occur. While greater attention has been given to CWP and silicosis, mining exposures cause a broad spectrum of respiratory disease, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and pulmonary fibrosis. Physicians must obtain a …
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Review of Environmental and Health Impacts of Mining in …
History of Mining in Ghana. There is evidence of gold extraction activities in Ghana as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., as gold deposits attracted Arab traders into the country.7 These activities were strategically located along rivers where sediments believed to contain deposits of gold were washed constantly to separate the gold grains.8 …
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Occupational Respiratory Diseases of Miners from Two Gold …
1. Introduction. Work-related diseases such as respiratory disorders cause huge suffering and losses in the world of work. However they remain largely invisible in comparison to industrial accidents, although they kill six times as many people annually [].Furthermore, the nature of occupational diseases is changing fast as technological and …
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Toxicological effects of mining hazard elements
Such elements can have several pathological effects, such as respiratory and cardiovascular, multiple chronic inflammation, and neurodegenerative diseases. …
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Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining …
Crystalline silica and asbestos are common minerals that occur throughout South Africa, exposure to either causes respiratory disease. Most studies on silicosis in South Africa have been cross-sectional and long-term trends have not been reported. Although much research has been conducted on the health effects of silica dust and …
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Mapping the Morbidity Risk Associated with Coal Mining in …
The populations in the vicinity of surface coal mining activities have a higher risk of morbidity due to diseases, such as cardiovascular, respiratory and hypertensive diseases, as well as cancer and diabetes mellitus. Despite the large and historical volume of coal production in Queensland, the main Australian coal mining state, there is ...
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The impact of coal mine dust characteristics on pathways to …
Exposure to dust from the mining environment has historically resulted in epidemic levels of mortality and morbidity from pneumoconiotic diseases such as silicosis, coal workers' …
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Coal mining and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a
The potential of coal mine dust to cause disabling pneumoconiosis has long been recognised, but research now suggests that pneumoconiosis is not the only respiratory hazard of coal mining. Over the last 30 years evidence has accumulated that miners also experience an excess of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and this has …
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Respiratory Diseases Caused by Coal Mine Dust
Exposure to coal mine dust during mining can cause a spectrum of disease termed CMDLD. This spectrum includes classic forms of CWP and silicosis, mixed dust …
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People living near mining activities at increased risk of diseases …
by Mayank Aggarwal and Sahana Ghosh on 14 December 2020. A latest government study has found that mining activities in the coal-rich Tamnar area of Chhattisgarh have put the local population, mainly tribal people, at an increased risk of acute respiratory diseases and tuberculosis. The study reveals that in the case of tuberculosis, …
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Chronic Illness Linked To Coal-mining Pollution, Study Shows
Chronic Illness Linked To Coal-mining Pollution, Study Shows. Date: March 27, 2008. Source: West ia University Health Sciences Center. Summary: Pollution from coal mining may have a negative ...
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Proposed silica dust regulation to prevent black lung disease …
If the samples show excessive silica, mining companies will be required to reduce the exposure, using what are called engineering controls: increasing ventilation to sweep away dust; making sure ...
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Illnesses from Dust
1 Signs of lung damage; 2 Black lung disease and silicosis. 2.1 Treatment; 2.2 Related health problems; 3 Preventing harm from dust. 3.1 Mine operators should provide equipment to reduce dust in mines; 3.2 Mine operators should provide materials to protect miners from breathing dust; 3.3 Miners can reduce the amount of dust they breathe in; …
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Investigation of respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) and …
Cumulative inhalation of respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) and respirable crystalline silica (RCS) can lead to obstructive lung diseases. Despite considerable …
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Lung disease and coal mining: what pulmonologists need …
Purpose of review: Coal mine workers are at risk for a range of chronic respiratory diseases including coal workers' pneumoconiosis, diffuse dust-related fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The purpose of this review is to describe coal mining processes and associated exposures to inform the diagnostic evaluation of miners with respiratory …
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