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This land disturbance is on a vast scale. In the US, between 1930 and 2000, coal mining altered about 2.4 million hectares [5.9 million acres] of natural landscape, most of it originally forest. Attempts to re-seed land destroyed by coal mining is difficult because the mining process has so thoroughly damaged the soil.
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South Africa. Accepted 7 October, 2010 Acid mine drainage is recognized as one of the more serious environmental problems in the mining industry. Acid mine drainage is a major problem on coal and gold mines throughout the world and in South Africa, the main focus of this study, is no exception. Various studies that have been undertaken
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Mining activities in the Witbank Coalfields also lead to surface subsidence due to mining acitivities. Here ... Province of South Africa, coal mining commenced at the turn of the 20th century. The room and pillar ... Initially, little or no environmental degradation was associated with the mining activities in the coalfields in the Witbank area ...
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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 greenhouse gas ...
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South Africa. Accepted 7 October, 2010. Acid min e drainage is recognized as one of the more serious environmental problems in the mining. industry. Acid min e drainage is a major p roblem on co ...
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Subsidence caused by underground coal mining results in soil degradation. However, little is known about bacterial community structure and its response to a 1-year-old coal mining subsidence area in arid and semiarid areas northwest China.
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scale in many parts of sub -Saharan Africa. 2.1. Land Degradation . Land degradation is, usually, the result of complex inter-relationships between biophysical and socio-economic issues which affect many people and their land, specially in the tropics and developing countries. The term land degradation involves both soil and vegetation degradation.
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return mined land to a viable post-mining state that caters to alternative land use and mitigates any deleterious environmental impact (Limpitlaw et al. 2005; Limpitlaw & Briel 2015). The conventional approaches to rehabilitation of opencast spoil and discard coal dumps in South Africa …
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Coal is removed in a number of ways including: contour mining, strip mining, and mountaintop removal. After undergoing a cleansing process, coal is typically burned in order to produce electricity. The coal industry has a significantly negative environmental impact on the land…
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Coal mining threatens people's access to water in Mpumalanga, South Africa South Africa is one of the thirty driest countries in the world. This is due to its geographical location and low ...
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The coal mining process is, however, associated with a multitude of adverse environmental impacts which plays a profound role in environmental degradation in South Africa - including but not limited to: Land degradation due to the disturbance of natural land profiles. Water pollution including Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) and post-closure decant.
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South Africa is the second largest emitter of Hg in the world, mainly due to gold mining activities and coal combustion. All coal deposits in South Africa occur in the Karoo Supergroup (Johnson et al. 2006), with the main deposits associated with the Vryheid Formation (Bell et al. 2001).
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Coal mining is one of Southern Africa's main energy source, but it holds a huge negative impact on the land's water, air and soil quality. Acid mine drainage is the result of the excess coal mining that occurs. Sulphuric Acid is released from coal mining, and although the generalizing process is slow, the time it takes for the acid to neutralize is equally as slow.
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BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa Ltd (Ingwe Collieries Ltd) 23.99 26.96 Xstrata South Africa (Pty) Ltd 20.11 15.05 Optimum Coal Terminal (Pty) Ltd 8.68 Total Coal South Africa (Pty) Ltd 5.47 4.09 Mining (Pty) Ltd 4.81 3.60 South Dunes Coal Terminal Company (Pty) Ltd 3.80 Kangra Coal …
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The impact of mining on agricultural land. Mining and agriculture are two industries often placed at opposite ends of the spectrum. Politicians like to play the mining card when making promises of better lives for South Africans, since new mines mean more money, more jobs, rural community development, wealth and progress. Lees dit in Afrikaans.
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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 ecological and aesthetic values of the landscape. Topography and drainage, air, soil and water quality, vegetation including forest ecosystems, noise levels and ground vibrations ...
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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, characterized, and the ...
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Many will remember the 2008 TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill in which 5.3 million cubic yards of coal ash spilled into the Emory and Clinch Rivers in Tennessee and covered about 300 acres of land, resulting in the nation's largest coal-ash spill in history. Water pollution. Coal mining impacts aquatic wildlife in several ways.
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The pilot area has approximately 5.3 % of South Africa's total high potential arable land, making it one of the most productive regions in South Africa with respect to grain and oilseed production. The potential loss of maize production from current mining activities and activities in the near future, amounts to 284 844 tons per annum.
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Mining-affected communities across South Africa have said that mining needs to respect the customary rights of the people who have lived on the land for …
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thousands of sites in Africa contaminated by mining and associated mine dumps such as tailings and slag material. On the other hand, the number of studies focused on the impacts of mining and mineral processing on the environment and human health in Africa have increased significantly during the last decade. However,
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In conclusion, there is the need for appropriate proactive measures to be put in place for environmental management to be improved within coal mining communities in South …
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different regions, and in land degradation caused by nutrient mining. Agricultural Production, Soil Nutrient Mining, and Land Conservation Soil nutrient mining, the result of overexploitation of agricultural land, is in fact consumption of a key component of the soil's natural capital. The propensity for nutrient mining of Africa's ...
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About 77% of South Africa's primary energy needs are provided by coal. Mining in Limpopo represents about 13% of South Africa's total mining sales, with South Africa's overall coal ...
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News Mining in Mabola: The slow violence of environmental degradation. 27 October 2021 at 9:01 am. This article was first published in the City Press. 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.
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In South Africa, and particularly in the province of Mpumalanga, large-scale coal mining operations also have an increasing negative impact on the country's water quality and availability. A Both End report (2016) explains that communities in Mpumalanga province, where the coal mining business is flourishing, struggle daily to get access to ...
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How South Africa's rural communities are getting a raw deal from mining. Mining activities in South Africa's rural areas tend to occur at the …
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[56] South African Human Rights Commission, "National Hearing on the Underlying Socio-economic Challenges of Mining-affected Communities in South Africa," p. 68 – 70, https:// ...
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1. Transvaal: Is the largest producing approximately 62%. Transvaal Wit bank collieries are the heaviest producers and coal is good (system coal) but rather unsuitable for cooking. Its rapid exploitation is due to its closeness to the rand and ease to extraction. The seams average 60 ft thick and lie close to the surface. Mining is safe due to stable seams with little gas.
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BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa Ltd (Ingwe Collieries Ltd) 23.99 26.96 Xstrata South Africa (Pty) Ltd 20.11 15.05 Optimum Coal Terminal (Pty) Ltd 8.68 Total Coal South Africa (Pty) Ltd 5.47 4.09 Mining (Pty) Ltd 4.81 3.60 South Dunes Coal Terminal Company (Pty) Ltd …
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In 2014, the country has produced near 260 Mt of coal and 182.7 Mt. South Africa sold its coal product internally with a value of R54.7 billion 69.6 Mt, worth R46.7 billion have been exported. The coal product provides around 81 % of the energy produced by the Energy Industry in South Africa. The coal-mining sector in South Africa is considered
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The success of this report is due largely to the enthusiastic participation of the Department of Agriculture staff in sharing their knowledge of the magisterial districts of South Africa. ... .. 81 6.4.11 Soil Mining ... Unlike previous investigations into land degradation in South Africa …
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