Gevra OC Mine in Chhattisgarh, was the largest surface coal-producing mine in India, producing approximately 47.1 million tonnes of coal and an estimated 49.04 million metric tons per annum (mmtpa) of Run-of-Mine (ROM) in 2021. The Gevra OC Mine is owned by Coal India Ltd, and is due to operate until 2028. The second largest surface coal-producing mine with an estimated …
It also introduces a new econometric model for estimating the operating cost and capital cost of a coal mining project. The total operating cost and capital cost of mining are calculated by using the proposed econometric model and verified by comparing the outputs with CostMine data and Sherpa software outputs for a surface coal mine.
Surface coal mining in the Mongolian Plateau destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 km² of natural vegetation and agricultural land, and consumed more than 2,315 million m³ of surface water and ...
Coal Mining Methods Surface mining – involves stripping off overburden to access coal resources. Overburden is the layers of soil and rock that overlie a coal bed. Contour mining Mountaintop removal mining Area mining Auger mining Highwall mining Underground or deep mining - extracting coal resources from beneath the earth's surface using a ...
Spatial extent and distribution of surface coal mining sites. For the Mongolian Plateau as a whole, the total area of surface coal mining sites (the coal-extracting zone only, excluding the stripped and dumping zones) expanded exponentially from 20.77 km 2 to 683.92 …
The development and utilization of mining resources are basic requirements for social and economic development. Both open-pit mining and underground mining have impacts on land, ecology, and the environment. Of …
This collection of fact sheets and other resources from the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement presents information about nationwide programs that fulfill the mission of protecting the public and the environment from the adverse effects of surface coal mining operations, while balancing the nation's need for continued domestic coal production with …
The surface miner's anti-vibration cabin offers better ergonomics and optimized working conditions for the machine operator. The vibrations generated in the 4200 SM were …
Surface coal mining is the dominant form of land cover change in Central Appalachia, yet the extent to which surface coal mine runoff is polluting regional rivers is currently unknown. We mapped surface mining from 1976 to 2005 for a 19,581 Km2 area of southern West ia and linked these maps with water quality and biol. data for 223 streams.
The surface miner's anti-vibration cabin offers better ergonomics and optimized working conditions for the machine operator. The vibrations generated in the 4200 SM were rated as "low ...
Coal plays a crucial role in global economic development and remains the most common and widely distributed fossil fuel worldwide. As the world's largest developing …
Fig. 3. Overall mining sequence of a typical surface coal mine in Australia (after Westcott et al., 2009). 2.1 Dragline method
The Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Award is given by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement each year to "those responsible for the nation's most outstanding achievements in environmentally sound surface mining and reclamation." Several Wyoming coal mines have won this award since the program started in 1986.
The development and utilization of mining resources are basic requirements for social and economic development. Both open-pit mining and underground mining have impacts on land, ecology, and the environment. Of these, open-pit mining is considered to have the greatest impact due to the drastic changes wrought on the original landform and the …
The coal mining industry plays an important role contributed to the national economy and development in Indonesia, however the mine accidents become as a sensitive issue or problem. The main cause of the mining accidents is still dominating the low safety awareness...
This article deals with reliability analysis of mining equipment such as shovels and dumper in a surface coal mine at The Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd., Telangana, by using the RBD and Markov model.
The cumulative area impacted by surface coal mining between 1976 and 2015 was estimated to be 5,900 km 2, about 7.1% of Central Appalachia (Pericak et al., 2018). Using data from the U.S Energy ...
Surface-strip coal mining can disturb landscapes extensively, typically affecting ten times more land than that affected by underground coal mining (Tongway and Ludwig, 2011). Surface mines have a disturbance potential that is unmatched by any other human activity, except for urban development. Surface-strip coal mining may involve the use of ...
Coal mining can have significant environmental consequences. The extraction, processing, and transportation of coal can contribute to various forms of pollution and land degradation. It is essential to mitigate these impacts to ensure sustainable mining practices. The key environmental concerns associated with coal mining in South Africa include:
ABSTRACT. This chapter explores the significant drawbacks of current coal mining, and the role of surface miners in sustainable and economical coal production, thereby ensuring green …
Layers of rock and dirt above and between the coal seams are removed. Coal seams are removed with excess soil and rock placed in an adjacent valley. Large scale earth moving equipment is used to excavate and remove coal from lower layers. The equipment used depends on the method and scale of the surface mining method being employed.
The sustainable transformation of surface coal mines aims to recover geoenvironmental and socioeconomic factors (ecosystems, landscape, soil, water, employment, etc.) related to extractive operations. The transition to sustainability starts when a mine enters the ageing/closing phase and includes large-scale technical activities for repurposing the mined …
Opencast coal mining has a series of consequences on land resources and places enormous pressure on the ecological environment. Stripping, excavation, transportation and dumping have different effects on soil physical, chemical and biological properties. Moreover, the reconstructed landscape produces increased small-scale spatial heterogeneity of mined soils. Currently, …
Currently, considerable scholars have conducted in-depth research on the influence range of rock strata and surface movement in underground shallow coal mining (Guo and Wang 2014;Zhou 2014;Muller ...
Large-scale longwall mining of shallow coal seams may cause mining-induced fractures that can project completely through to the surface. This could lead to a series of mine safety and environmental issues, further deteriorating the already fragile ecological environment in the Western mining areas in China. Therefore, an accurate and effective understanding of the …
Surface coal mining impacts on land use change and ecological service value: a case study in Shengli coalfield, Inner Mongolia August 2022 International Journal of Coal …
Surface Mining Surface coal mining techniques, which account for the majority of national coal production and roughly 42 percent of West ia's coal production, involve the mechanical removal of overlying native earth and rock or "overburden" to reach underlying coal seams. Surface mining can be further categorized into three basic ...
The mean NDVI for coal mining areas was 0.252 km2, and for areas of reclamation, it was 0.292 km2 in 2020, while in 2019, the value for coal mining sites was 0.133 km2, and 0.163 km2 for ...
Coal Mining Coal can be extracted from the earth either by surface mining or underground mining. Once coal has been extracted, it can be used directly (for heating and industrial processes) or to fuel power plants for electricity. Surface Mining If coal is less than 61 meters (200 feet) underground, it can be extracted through surface mining.
In the process of mining and transportation, the temporary non-hardened mine-road structure is mainly a mixture of soil and stone, which very easily produces dust hazards via crushing and wind transportation. Geopolymers can be used in the road's soil and stone mixture so that the road reaches certain strength requirements in line with the short-term use of the …
SYNOPSIS. Surface subsidence over coal mine workings received a great deal of attention in South Africa in the 1990s with the increased prevalence of high-extraction methods. This …
the explicit purpose of restoring pre-mining surface and groundwater flow paths on mine landscapes or mitigating hydrologic alterations caused by the mining process. Here, we review literature on the hydrology of surface mine lands in Appalachia. We describe the region's hydrologic conditions without mining and their alteration by coal ...
The most environmentally damaging form of coal mining is surface or strip mining because it usually disturbs huge areas of vegetation, soil, and water across landscapes (Ma et al. 2018, 2021; Zeng et al. 2018). Surface coal mining areas (SCMAs) refer to the spatial extent within which coal reserves are exploited using opencast mining techniques,
Surface mining and underground mining are the two main types of coal mining. Surface mining can recover a higher percentage of coal (over 90 %) than underground mining, but the choice of mining type is usually limited by the geological characteristics of the proposed mine, the location of the coal seams, and the equipment available at the time ...
The results show that the surface environment in the coal mining subsidence area has undergone significant changes over the past 40 years, among which—from 1979 to 2003—the environment of the coal mining area was severely damaged by the intensive mining activities. The area of cultivated land and vegetation coverage decreased sharply, while ...
A case in point is the Mongolian Plateau, which is the largest surface coal mining region of the world (Fig. 1), but has not been studied as a whole on the scope and speed of …