Several serious environmental impacts related to quarrying activities on and near the river, such as vibrations, land degradation, land subsidence and landslides, water pollution, occupational ...
DetailsThe investigation yielded that among the five quarry sites, the social and environmental effects of the gravel and sand quarrying operations which the respondents strongly agree with their mean ...
DetailsSocial Benefits of Limestone Quarrying: Provides local employment opportunities, bolstering the economy of the areas where the quarries are located. Infrastructure development in the form of better roads, schools and health clinics as a result of the quarrying industry. Social Drawbacks of Limestone Quarrying:
DetailsIt create jobs. (Social and economical) Once all the limestone is quarries the area is then landscaped so that it blends in with the natural surroundings. (environmental) Limestone is a useful raw material; used to make cement, concrete, paper, glass, mortar as well as neutralizing acidic lakes and soils.(economical and environmental) Disadvantages
DetailsQuarrying activities in Narok Town ward have played an important role in the economic development and infrastructural development, however it has brought about negative social issues such …
DetailsQuarrying is part of the wider extractive industry and the natural stone, gravel and sand that comes from a quarry are known as 'aggregate'. /> It's fair to say that people don't give much thought to the subject of aggregates, and may only know a quarry as a hole in the ground.
DetailsPDF | On Jan 1, 2020, Hüseyin Vapur and others published A case study of the life cycle impact of limestone quarrying on the environment | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
Details2.2 Quarrying as disruption and place re-making process. Quarries are open cast excavations from which deposits of hard or soft rocks are extracted using rock drills or explosions of dynamite (Coppin & Bradshaw, 1982).In the European Union, mining and quarrying were estimated to use 0.2% of the land in 2003, compared with 2.0% for …
DetailsQuarrying is an extractive activity that causes major environmental changes in grasslands (Lameed and Ayodele 2010; Gbedzi et al. 2022).The environmental impacts of these changes range from pre-operational mining activities (e.g., construction of access roads, conduits, and installation of drains and ditches) to the mining activity itself (e.g., …
DetailsThe objectives of this study are therefore to assess the environmental effects of limestone quarrying and its effects on the health status of the community. It is hoped that the results of this study will not only help environmental scientists but also politicians in policy formulation. 2. Materials and Methods 2.1.
DetailsA quarry is a place where rocks, sand, or minerals are extracted from the surface of Earth.A quarry is a type of mine called an open-pit mine, because it is open to Earth's surface.Another type of mine, a subsurface mine, consists of underground tunnels or shafts.. The most common purpose of quarries is to extract stone for building materials. …
DetailsSocial Drawbacks of Limestone Quarrying: Noise and dust pollution from blasting and machinery can disrupt local communities. Changes to the local landscape can …
DetailsThe social effects of quarrying that were identified. from the field survey are elaborated in the next. paragraphs. Support in the provision of social amenities and.
DetailsThe research area (limestone quarry Mokra near Brno) was evaluated by semi - quantitative evaluation of the environmental, productive and social potential of the site. Based on the results,...
DetailsTaking a case study approach, we investigate perceptions of sense of place after quarrying and social-ecological restoration in a limestone region of the Czech …
Detailsmining/quarrying operations on a community is the employment that it generates. Employment is generated through the creation of jobs within the mining/quarrying operation itself, for instance during the exploration, mining/quarrying and closure/rehabilitation phases. These jobs are directly related to the mining/quarrying …
DetailsResource availability and extraction seem to present a paradox to most countries in the global south. It appears to be a curse rather than a blessing. Using the resource curse theory as a philosophical lens, this study qualitatively analysed the effects of the stone quarrying industry in the Wenchi municipality of Ghana. Using the case …
DetailsThis paper focuses on the effects of limestone mining on deforestation and land degradation in Usongwe Division, Mbeya Region. ... African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research. ... steep slope control was also done so as to enhance visibility within limestone quarrying sites due to high heights of the soil/debris heaps. An ...
DetailsThe investigation yielded that among the five quarry sites, the social and environmental effects of the gravel and sand quarrying operations which the respondents strongly agree with their mean ...
DetailsThe typical activity in a limestone quarry includes explosions, quarrying and passage of heavy duty-vehicles. These processes typically cause high rates particulate matter (PM) emissions. Therefore, quarries located in populated areas, may be an important cause of exposure to particulate air pollution. In order to quantify this phenomena, it is …
DetailsHigh sediment loads below headwater areas of the Permanente Creek drainage basin, Santa Clara County, California, have caused flood-control problems in downstream lowland areas. Measured sediment yields in Permanente Creek, which drains areas affected by limestone quarrying and cement-plant operations, were 14 times greater than yields …
Detailsily concerned with quarrying in karst; however, those publications do illustrate the complexities of cause and effects of human activities in karst. Although a relationship between environmental damage and quarrying of carbonate rock has been well doc-umented for over fi fty years (Foose, 1953), there are only a few reports
DetailsWe have carried out an assessment on the environmental effects of limestone quarrying on some com-munities in the Lower Manya Krobo District in the Eastern region of Ghana.
DetailsFinally, findings in Table 3 reveals that 30% of the respondents reported that Civils society was highly capable of actualizing the EIA and EMPs interventions for sustainable quarrying while 30% said that civil society …
DetailsThe Himalayan mountains span over 2400 km across Asia and form one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, home to over 10,000 plant and 1200 vertebrate species (Pandit et al., 2014).Designated as an Endemic Area and Global 200 Ecoregion, the Himalayas play a vital role in influencing regional climate and supporting diverse …
DetailsWe have carried out an assessment on the environmental effects of limestone quarrying on some com-munities in the Lower Manya Krobo District in the Eastern region of Ghana.
DetailsIntroduction: Impacts of Quarrying. A quarry is an area from which resources such as marble, limestone, sand and granite are extracted for industrial use. Once depleted of …
DetailsAll over the world there is a realization that quarrying activities has evolved over time to mining industry that has the potential to provide hither to unparalleled services to management in their efforts to reduce effects of quarrying risks to the human being and the surroundings. This potentially has been turned into a challenge and embodied in the …
DetailsThe investigation conducted the health effects of limestone quarrying in the Yilo Krobo municipality at Klo-Begro and Manya Krobo municipality at Odugblase. The objectives were to assess possible clustering of respiratory disease cases around a putative pollution source, model possible correlation between exposure and respiratory disease cases ...
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