• This listing proposal is historic because these are the first species to be proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act because of harm caused by mountaintop-removal coal mining," Tierra Curry, a CBD senior scientist was quoted as saying in the group's response to the proposal. (courthousenews.com)
  • However, much of this is in seams that are too deep to mine. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Coal measures is a name for coal-bearing sedimentary rocks, which include sandstone, mudstone and conglomerates as well as coal seams. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The deposit lies on the Aries, Castor, Pollux and Pisces seams found within the Rangal Coal measures of Central Queensland's bowen basin. (mining-technology.com)
  • Once the seams are exposed, it is accessed by operating low wall ramps with coal excavated via hydraulic excavator or front-end loaders. (mining-technology.com)
  • Huge seams of coal are removed, leaving nothing in some places to support the soil above. (truthout.org)
  • The guidance from EPA establishes a range of conductivity levels for streams affected by runoff from mountaintop mining, a controversial practice in which explosives literally blow off the tops of mountains to expose coal seams near the surface. (foodsafetynews.com)
  • Possible explanations for the increased silica exposure include disregard for health and safety regulations, greater silica content in the coal mining dust, less accessible coal seams that require cutting through more rock, and changes in work practices, such as the use of high-powered equipment that can produce more dust with finer particles. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Government coal surveys and exploration by mining companies have established that New Zealand has an estimated 16 billion tonnes of in-ground coal. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In these, there are 2 billion tonnes of in-ground coal. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In-ground resources amount to 380 million tonnes of sub-bituminous coal, but this is unlikely to be economically mineable. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Australia-based Riversdale Resources submitted a proposal to regulators in 2016 for the project, which it estimates could produce 4.5 million tonnes of steelmaking coal annually over the mine's 23-year lifespan. (cbc.ca)
  • The area, which has produced 175 million tonnes of coal, now boasts an annual solar-power generation capacity of 900 million kWh. (nepalnews.com)
  • It is owned by Peabody Energy and produced an estimated 60.78 million tonnes of coal in 2022. (mining-technology.com)
  • The surface mine produced an estimated 58.22 million tonnes of coal in 2022. (mining-technology.com)
  • It is owned by Navajo Transitional Energy and produced an estimated 20.45 million tonnes of coal in 2022. (mining-technology.com)
  • Currently 2,700 square metres of land subsides for every 10,000 tonnes of coal mined, with 800 square kilometres of land damaged every year. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Each scenario includes general information about the mine, maps, and background information to set the stage for the story of how miners evacuated the mine. (cdc.gov)
  • This training was used successfully with miners attending annual refresher training and during mine rescue team training. (cdc.gov)
  • Altogether 152 rescuers are trying to reduce gas density in the laneway in their search for the 32 miners who remain missing after the blast occurred at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Liuguantun coal mine in Kaiping District of Tangshan, possibly caused by gas explosion. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The mine coal management reported that 82 miners got out safely shortly after the blast and 104 others were trapped underground. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • When you dig deep for it, you risk the lives of miners, as seen in the tragedy at Utah's Crandall Canyon Mine. (heraldnet.com)
  • Employees who work for companies that contract or subcontract work at the mines, such as electrical engineering or equipment repair like Minserco, also do not have to take a state-administered test and they are not registered with the state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training, spokeswoman Caryn Gresham said. (alipac.us)
  • Miners hold the last lump of coal during a closing ceremony of the last German coal mine Prosper-Haniel in Bottrop, Germany, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Straining to hold back tears, their once-white helmets and overalls smeared with dust, seven miners in Germany stepped out of a metal cage Friday bearing the last piece of black coal hauled up from 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) below. (foxbusiness.com)
  • We found a somewhat increased risk of stomach cancer (1.11, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.35) and of mortality from NMRD (1.26, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.61) in the cohorts of coal miners with unknown CWP status. (bvsalud.org)
  • The meta-analysis also showed a decreased risk of prostate cancer and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality among coal miners . (bvsalud.org)
  • The meta-analysis for lung cancer did not show increased risk in coal miners with CWP (1.49, 95% CI 0.70 to 3.18) or for coal miners of unknown CWP status (1.03, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.18). (bvsalud.org)
  • Recently, rapid development of progressive massive fibrosis has been found among young coal miners, especially in the eastern United States. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Miners working in underground mines, closer to the extraction point, and those involved in cutting or drilling are at greater risk of coal worker pneumoconiosis. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Coal field residents and allies are currently promoting the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act, or ACHE, a federal bill that would place a moratorium on new mountaintop removal permits until the federal government has completed and evaluated studies into health disparities in the region," the group said. (courthousenews.com)
  • Of the judge's decision to validate the Spruce No. 1 mining permit, those groups said in a joint statement, "It is a sad day, not only for the people who live near mountains and streams threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining, but for all Americans who understand the need to protect our waterways, and the health of the communities that depend on them. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Photo: Activists march to protest mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The administration just issued regulations easing the way for the most appalling means of coal extraction - mountaintop removal. (heraldnet.com)
  • The Trump administration and United States Congress have endangered public health by ending measures, including defunding a scientific study, that address the human and environmental risks of mountaintop removal, a form of surface coal mining prevalent in central Appalachia. (hrw.org)
  • One day after spurning environmentalists by expanding U.S. offshore oil and gas drilling, President Obama delighted activists by taking tough new steps to restrict the pollution of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachian states. (foodsafetynews.com)
  • In addition, new permits aimed at reducing water pollution will be required for mountaintop mining operations. (foodsafetynews.com)
  • Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, called the move "the most significant administrative action ever taken to address mountaintop removal coal mining. (foodsafetynews.com)
  • The studies show "significant damage to local streams that are polluted with the mining runoff from mountaintop mining removal," EPA said in a release . (foodsafetynews.com)
  • By 2010, coal produced over a fourth of the world's energy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most of the world's coals were formed in great swamps during the Carboniferous period, about 300-350 million years ago. (teara.govt.nz)
  • We refuse to be the proverbial canaries in the world's coal mine, as we are so often called," said Mr Bainimarama in an angry but poised speech at the forum hosted by Al Gore's Climate Reality Project to discuss the November COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. (smh.com.au)
  • We refuse to be the proverbial canaries in the world's coal mine. (smh.com.au)
  • Ukwazi director Jaco Lotheringen adds that the company has been involved in several such turnaround projects in South Africa, where underground coal mines that were active from the 1940s to 1980s are being reconsidered for opencast mining. (miningweekly.com)
  • Canary as in sensitive to toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, placed in a mine to warn of danger. (rense.com)
  • The Penis as Canary in a Coal Mine The Curbsiders share pearls from urologist Ashley Winter's astute and holistic approach to erectile dysfunction for the primary care setting. (medscape.com)
  • Being plasmid-mediated is a concern especially as colistin use is the "canary in the coal mine" of gram-negative resistance. (medscape.com)
  • For decades coal companies have gotten away with polluting Appalachia's water and killing its species, but it is time for the Endangered Species Act to start being enforced in Appalachia. (courthousenews.com)
  • If you mine it by lopping off the tops of mountains - as is done in Appalachia - you rape the environment. (heraldnet.com)
  • I am a graduate student doing research on coal mining in Appalachia. (skytruth.org)
  • America's coal mining communities are deeply concerned by the impact of policy announced today by EPA on coal mining permits, employment, and economic activity throughout Appalachia," said Bruce Watzman, senior vice president for regulatory affairs at the National Mining Association, in an e-mailed statement to the New York Times . (foodsafetynews.com)
  • According to government figures, Germany's coal mining industry received more than 40 billion euros ($46 billion) in federal funds since 1998 and is slated to get another 2.7 billion euros through 2022. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The following are the five largest coal mines by production in the US in 2022, according to GlobalData's mining database, which tracks more than 33,000 mines and projects from early exploration to closure across more than 150 countries and over 100 commodities. (mining-technology.com)
  • Menar, through its subsidiaries, expects to produce 20-million tons of coal a year from 2022/23. (miningweekly.com)
  • Kangra produced the first coal from its new underground Udumo adit on February 9, 2022. (miningweekly.com)
  • Carey's next big act come 2012 very likely will entail turning climate change, air pollution and mining policies into a coal-state electoral albatross for Obama and many of his Democratic allies. (politico.com)
  • Amnesty also highlighted the environmental damage, soil erosion and pollution caused by coal mining in India, which is largely open cast. (yahoo.com)
  • Among the 10 cities with the most air pollution, four are in India, according to the World Health Organization, with the use of coal in power generation a leading source of pollution. (yahoo.com)
  • Crayfish habitat depends upon stream water quality, and excess sedimentation and pollution from coal mining, road construction and dredging has contributed to the drastic decline in the populations of these two species, according to today's 12-month finding. (courthousenews.com)
  • The CBD also noted that this mechanized mining method employs fewer people than other forms of mining, and its pollution affects humans as well as the ecosystem. (courthousenews.com)
  • The company, a subsidiary of Arch Coal, says it has no viable alternative but to continue dumping massive amounts of uncontrolled methane pollution into the air at the mine in western Colorado. (earthjustice.org)
  • Mountain Coal clearly has no interest in making the market work, underscoring the need for mandatory limits on methane pollution at the West Elk coal mine. (earthjustice.org)
  • As the EPA's Spruce veto determination recognized, sound science shows that it is unacceptable for a coal company to destroy more than 2,000 mountain acres and fill over six miles of vital streams with mining waste pollution. (peoplesworld.org)
  • No one in [this area] or beyond should be forced to live with the water pollution and wholesale environmental destruction that coal companies are wreaking. (peoplesworld.org)
  • This is about ending coal mining pollution. (foodsafetynews.com)
  • Coal accounts for more than 60 percent of India's electricity capacity, and the government plans to nearly double annual coal output by 2020, opening a new mine nearly every month. (yahoo.com)
  • In 2020, opencast mines at Maramarua and Rotowaro were the only Waikato mines still working. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Even if solar does not surpass coal as a leading source of power by 2020, as more optimistic analysts have insisted , the handwriting is on the wall. (triplepundit.com)
  • In 2020, the regional government issued a policy to support the construction of photovoltaic power stations in coal-mining subsidence areas. (nepalnews.com)
  • Additionally, coal seam thickness and geology are factors in the selection of a mining method. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most economical form of underground mining is the long wall, which involves using two spinning drums with carbide bits that runs along sections of the coal seam. (wikipedia.org)
  • The overburden laying over the coal seam is drilled and blasted with explosives. (mining-technology.com)
  • While Australia is a major gas exporter and has large offshore projects, there has been a backlash against onshore developments such as coal-seam gas mining. (gulf-times.com)
  • Coal riders are coal beds that occur above (generally within 30 feet) of a major mined or named coal seam. (uky.edu)
  • Coal beds and stringers underlain by rooted clays in mine roofs formed in the same way as the underlying coal seam (for more information, see How is coal formed ). (uky.edu)
  • In these cases, the relation of the rider to the merged coal seam is similar to that of a split, which is treated separately on this website. (uky.edu)
  • In 2004, Carey created the Americans for Coal Jobs Voter Fund, a 527 group that ran two television commercials in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. (politico.com)
  • A federal judge ruled in March that the Environmental Protection Agency illegally vetoed a large West Virginia coal-mining project. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Advocates of the Obama administration's choice to appeal included the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, and the Sierra Club. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Drive through the coal country of West Virginia and Kentucky: Where once stood majestic mountains and hardwood forests, you see rocky stumps on which only grass and brush can grow. (heraldnet.com)
  • The political establishment in West Virginia is traditionally Democratic and eager to sell the state's future to coal interests. (heraldnet.com)
  • Officials with the United Mine Workers of America say the problem of illegal immigrants working in West Virginia coal mines is becoming more prevalent. (alipac.us)
  • Around the time of the crash, he was employed by Minserco, a Milwaukee-based mine services contractor that repairs equipment in mines across West Virginia. (alipac.us)
  • Bill Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association, said Thursday he does not think the state's mine industry is an employment haven for illegal immigrants. (alipac.us)
  • The recent death of a Raleigh County child has brought the issue to the forefront of talks about safety in the state's mines. (alipac.us)
  • Raney, along with the state's mine safety officials, said any person who works in a state underground or surface mine has to pass an English-only written exam. (alipac.us)
  • These workers typically are not working inside the state's mines or with mining crews, she said. (alipac.us)
  • At a time when overall coal production is decreasing nationwide, Illinois is experiencing a resurgence as overseas demand increases and new technology allows for cleaner burning of the state's high-sulfur coal. (truthout.org)
  • The Coal Section is responsible for ensuring the reclamation of land affected by surface and underground mining activity and regulation of development of coal mines in order to maintain the integrity of Montana's natural resources. (mt.gov)
  • A Surface or Underground Mining Permit is used when engaging in mining operations in order to ensure the reclamation of land affected and maintain the integrity of Montana's natural resources. (mt.gov)
  • But again, we have to add a caveat: just because a mine was classified abandoned does not mean that there hasn't at least been some effort made at reclamation. (skytruth.org)
  • Abandoned" in this context means that the responsible party (the mining company) has reneged on their responsibility for reclamation, leaving the taxpayers (you and I) stuck with the bill to clean it up. (skytruth.org)
  • The additional overburden is being removed and transported by Bucyrus 495HR electric shovel and 360t capacity Liebherr 282C ultra-class trucks equipped with CYBERMINE4 simulators for safe mining. (mining-technology.com)
  • Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. (wikipedia.org)
  • Coal extraction methods vary depending on whether the mine is an underground mine or a surface (also called open cast) mine. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most economical method of coal extraction for surface mines is the electric shovel or drag line. (wikipedia.org)
  • This project is to record those people who were involved in extraction of minerals apart from Coal. (geni.com)
  • The big irony here is that if government showed a strong interest in regulating coal - both the extraction and the burning of it - one might say, "Go for it. (heraldnet.com)
  • The former mine in Douglas County, near Skinner's home, used an extraction system called room and pillar. (truthout.org)
  • He explained underground mining causes "closely spaced finger lakes, resulting from subsidence, [that] cover the undermined farms and render the land un-farmable. (truthout.org)
  • The Boortai subsistence area is the company's largest contiguous coal-mining subsidence area. (nepalnews.com)
  • But as coal mines have become depleted or shut down as a result of slowing industrial growth, cities that once thrived on coal have suffered the most as they are forced to deal with a legacy of subsidence, lost agricultural land and dried-up rivers. (chinadialogue.net)
  • The study also found that coal mining causes serious surface subsidence. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Widespread subsidence in mining areas is the literal scar of the coal boom, a historical debt that cannot be repaid. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Coal mining has had many developments in recent years, from the early days of men tunneling, digging and manually extracting the coal on carts to large open-cut and longwall mines. (wikipedia.org)
  • The coal mining industry has a long history of significant negative environmental impacts on local ecosystems, health impacts on local communities and workers, and contributes heavily to the global environmental crises, such as poor air quality and climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite being handed the opportunity to capture and use methane gas on a silver platter, Mountain Coal continues to make excuses to keep wasting this valuable product and endanger the climate," said Jeremy Nichols, Climate and Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians. (earthjustice.org)
  • Climate protests are continuing in Germany over the expansion of an open-pit coal mine in the village of Lützerath in western Germany. (democracynow.org)
  • The government has yet again delayed making a critical planning decision on whether to give the green light to a new coking coal mine in Cumbria, with an announcement now expected after the COP27 UN Climate. (businessgreen.com)
  • The major coal producing countries, though, such as China, Indonesia, India and Australia, have not reached peak production, with production increases replacing falls in Europe and US and proposed mines under development. (wikipedia.org)
  • The major coal producing countries, though, such as China , Indonesia, India and Australia , have not reached peak production, with production increases replacing falls in Europe and U.S. [1] and proposed mines under development. (wikipedia.org)
  • As public hearings begin this week for the first major coal project the community has seen in years, debate continues over whether its future - like its past - should rest with coal. (cbc.ca)
  • Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole (KCCH), are challenging Cumbria County Council's Development Control and Regulation Committee's decision to grant planning permission for a major coal mine on the former Marchon Chemical Works site in Whitehaven, Cumbria. (itv.com)
  • Forsaken underground coal mines are increasingly being reopened using opencast mining methods, according to independent mining advisory group Ukwazi senior mining engineer Adriaan Strydom , who tells Mining Weekly that this practice is effectively enabled through increased mechanisation. (miningweekly.com)
  • He adds that, essentially, converting a closed underground mine into an opencast mine is much more cost-effective than starting with coal exploration in a new area. (miningweekly.com)
  • The construction of Phase 1 comprises opencast mining from a reserve of 14.3-million tons. (miningweekly.com)
  • the Thuso (formerly Witfontein) underground and opencast coal project, north-west of Bethal, in Mpumalanga, which has an estimated LoM of 11 years, based on RoM production of about 100 000 t a month. (miningweekly.com)
  • Menar projects are expected to create about 2 000 jobs, including 320 at the Bekezela project, 430 at the Gugulethu, 200 at Thuso, 200 at the RAC operation, and 400 at the Sukuma opencast mine. (miningweekly.com)
  • Mountain Coal Company's assumptions appear to be systematically biased in one direction, namely against finding any action that is economically feasible other than continued venting of this powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere," said Dr. Power. (earthjustice.org)
  • Widespread historical timber and mining activities, increased development, sewage discharges and road construction throughout the Big Sandy and the Upper Guyandotte river basins damaged the aquatic systems and locally wiped out both crayfish species from many subwatersheds within their respective historical ranges, according to the action. (courthousenews.com)
  • Environmentalists have attributed recent heavy floods in southern Indonesian Borneo to widespread deforestation for oil palm plantations and coal mines. (mongabay.com)
  • Use of inertisation techniques is generally more widespread in coal mining regions around the world than in the U. (cdc.gov)
  • In this study, NIOSH personnel accompanied Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) inspectors on their routine band surveys in five underground coal mines in MSHA District 2 (PA) and three underground coal mines in MSHA District 11 (AL). (cdc.gov)
  • Arch Coal, Inc. announced today it's suspending efforts to secure a permit for the Otter Creek Coal mine in Southeastern Montana citing restraints related to its recent bankruptcy filing and the declining demand for coal. (nwf.org)
  • A worker watches as a loader unloads coal at a yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, February 12, 2016. (yahoo.com)
  • Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Though it was used historically as a domestic fuel, coal is now used mostly in industry, especially in smelting and alloy production, as well as electricity generation. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the late 20th century, coal was, for the most part, replaced in domestic as well as industrial and transportation usage by oil, natural gas or electricity produced from oil, gas, nuclear power or renewable energy sources. (wikipedia.org)
  • In comments submitted to the Bureau of Land Management on October 22 and November 15, he noted, among other things, that Mountain Coal appears to have exaggerated the costs of operating and maintaining electrical generators that could be fueled by methane vented from the West Elk mine and assumed that no generated electricity would be used on-site for mine operations. (earthjustice.org)
  • When you burn coal for electricity, you fill the air with acid-rain chemicals and asthma-inducing fine particles - that is, unless you install scrubbing devices in the plants. (heraldnet.com)
  • The interest in Rio Tinto's coal assets comes amid a volatile period for the commodity, in this case, thermal coal, which is used to generate electricity. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Germany still generates almost two-fifths of its electricity from burning coal, a situation that scientists say can't continue if Germany wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Non-renewables such as coal and gas are Australia's primary fuel source for generating electricity, although renewable generation has been rising in recent years. (gulf-times.com)
  • Rather than objectively analyze economic feasibility, Mountain Coal instead concocted an assessment to support continued polluting the atmosphere and wasting methane," said WildEarth Guardians' Nichols. (earthjustice.org)
  • A few years ago, when Kinnear first heard about plans for a new coal mining project in the area - which would be the first in decades - the writer of mining history was cautiously optimistic. (cbc.ca)
  • A section of the 1,500-hectare site has already been disturbed by previous mining activity decades ago. (cbc.ca)
  • For decades, the mines survived only thanks to generous subsidies. (foxbusiness.com)
  • More than 400 coal mining regions around the world will face similar pressures to shut down in the coming decades amid international efforts to curb global warming. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Skinner's neighbor and fellow farmer William Deckard began noticing his land subsiding in recent years, decades after coal was extracted from underneath. (truthout.org)
  • But while we know this doesn't show every abandoned coal mine the country, and some sites may have been expertly reclaimed by state, federal, and non-profit initiatives, this map also underscores the alarming lack of reliable data about sites which could still cause disastrous releases of toxic wastes for decades to come. (skytruth.org)
  • S. due to the more prevalent use of bleederless ventilation systems in active areas of coal mines in other countries, as opposed to the almost ubiquitous bleeder ventilation systems currently used in U. S. coal mines. (cdc.gov)
  • Wangan and Jagalingou people protest against the Carmichael coal mine. (earthjustice.org)
  • One of these mines, the Carmichael coal mine, would be among the largest in the world, producing up to 60 million tons of coal per year for up to 60 years if developed as proposed. (earthjustice.org)
  • The Carmichael coal mine alone will harm around 30,000 hectares of land, the bulk of which are the Wangan and Jagalingou's traditional lands. (earthjustice.org)
  • Australian government today cleared the proposed Carmichael coal mine project of the Indian conglomerate Adani Mining in the Galilee Basin in central Queensland. (deccanherald.com)
  • A federal law from the 1980s forbids mining within 100 feet of a permanent stream, but it has been ignored. (heraldnet.com)
  • Mining from the 1980s caused land to sink unevenly, creating marshy areas that reduce crop yield. (truthout.org)
  • The coal mine near his farm closed in the 1980s, but he and his neighbors are still cleaning up the mess. (truthout.org)
  • Coal is also mined today on a large scale by open pit methods wherever the coal strata strike the surface or are relatively shallow. (wikipedia.org)
  • Curragh is an open-pit coal mine located 14km north-west of the town of Blackwater in the bowel basin of Central Queensland, Australia. (mining-technology.com)
  • But others fear negative consequences from open-pit mining in a postcard setting tucked at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. (cbc.ca)
  • Unlike most mines of the area's past, which tunnelled underground to access coal, this would be an open-pit mine. (cbc.ca)
  • Bill Trafford, who speaks for the Livingstone Landowners Group, which opposes open-pit mining in the area, understands the economic argument in favour of coal mining, and he's reviewed the Grassy Mountain project in detail. (cbc.ca)
  • Our analysis suggests that Bituminous Coal Underground Mining will typically employ 20 to 49 employees. (gaebler.com)
  • While an underground coal mine was typically dismissed or abandoned once mining activities were complete, this is changing, he notes, explaining that mining companies use a specific technology to mine the remaining pillars, once they are labelled to be depleted. (miningweekly.com)
  • I've checked periodically over the past several months as to whether they're getting an influx, and typically there are job fairs being held out in the mine communities and they're attempting to get as many local people as possible. (alipac.us)
  • People with simple coal worker pneumoconiosis typically do not have breathing symptoms. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We should be looking at ways to increase the efficiency of existing mines, rather than open new mines,' Sreedhar Ramamurthi at the non-profit Mines, Minerals & People, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. (yahoo.com)
  • When coal burns, the ash that remains consists mainly of clay minerals, quartz, and sulfur compounds (mainly pyrite). (teara.govt.nz)
  • A diverse range of minerals has been extracted by underground mining, ranging from industrial minerals such as limestone through to precious metals like gold. (geni.com)
  • Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project. (who.int)
  • Jackson, however, said her agency was taking action at the request of various government leaders, including Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.VA), founder of the Clean Coal Technology Program . (foodsafetynews.com)
  • The very nature of coal mining is so harmful,' he said. (yahoo.com)
  • The Ruhr region became a melting pot with the arrival since the 19th century of successive waves of immigrants, from Poland, Italy and Turkey, in search of well-paid work down the mines. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Mining. (who.int)
  • Previous mining was on a small scale, and there has been no production since the last mine, in the Waitewhena coalfield, closed in 1990. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The coal mine, formerly state-owned, was privatized in 2002 with a designed annual production capacity of 300,000 tons. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The coal mine used to be a state-owned mine run by the local government with a designed production capacity of 300,000 tons per year. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The mine covers an area of 12,600ha and has an annual production capacity of 7Mt. (mining-technology.com)
  • The mine covers an area of 12,600ha and has an annual production capacity 6.5 to 7mt. (mining-technology.com)
  • In all, the operations that Glencore wants to buy account for about 60% of Rio Tinto's coal production. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Much of Coal & Allied's production goes to Japan, giving Glencore less exposure to Chinese demand fluctuations. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The end of black coal production marks the end of an industry that started German's industrial revolution and its post-war economic recovery. (foxbusiness.com)
  • GlobalData's Mining Intelligence Center tracks production, consumption, imports and exports of 17 key commodities across 60 countries, whilst its Mines & Projects Database tracks over 30,000 mines and projects with 200+ data fields for each, including production, operating costs, equipment and key mine-site contacts. (mining-technology.com)
  • Methane is produced in the mine even when coal production isn't occurring. (aspentimes.com)
  • The estimated overall life-of-mine (LoM) for Gugulethu is more than 20 years, with a production rate of about 200 000 t of run-of-mine (RoM) a month. (miningweekly.com)
  • Drill-and-blast mining methods will be used to produce the anticipated RoM production of about 240 000 t a year of anthracite. (miningweekly.com)
  • Research carried out by Tsinghua University and the Ministry of Environmental Protection's Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning in 2014, found that external costs incurred throughout the coal lifecycle - use of water resources, impacts on health, and damage to the environment - totalled 260 yuan per tonne, nowhere near the taxes and fees on coal production and usage. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Timely and rapid intervention to underground combustion events (fires, explosions, and spontaneous combustion) is the key to the successful control of the mine atmosphere and restoring of a coal mine to production. (cdc.gov)
  • It also prohibits primary mining of mercury and use of mercury to be reduced in coal-fired power plants, small and gold mines and cement production. (who.int)
  • This area is home to industrial production encompassing chemical plants, cement production, gold, copper and coal mining. (lu.se)
  • Chemical plants, cement production, and mining activities inherently produce by-products that, if not managed carefully, pose significant threats to the environment and, consequently, the health of the communities residing nearby. (lu.se)
  • Not even a decade ago, coal was an important part of Rio Tinto Group's business portfolio. (triplepundit.com)
  • But according to Bloomberg , Rio Tinto is moving fast to sell off its last remaining coal operations. (triplepundit.com)
  • Rio Tinto has reportedly been shopping around its entire Australian coal division for several months . (triplepundit.com)
  • As a coal mining project in Mozambique began to suffer one setback after another, Rio Tinto discovered that operation was just one example of how coal was no longer the profitable business it had been in the past. (triplepundit.com)
  • Rio Tinto and many of its peers have scrambled to offload its coal mines as more countries, and the utilities powering them, have sought alternatives such as natural gas and renewables. (triplepundit.com)
  • Earlier this year, Rio Tinto offloaded its coal operations in China for almost $2.5 billion. (triplepundit.com)
  • While coal has increasingly been described as a risk to investors due to the chance many mines will soon become stranded assets, that is not the narrative Rio Tinto has been communicating to stakeholders. (triplepundit.com)
  • Glencore PLC on Friday offered over $2.5 billion to buy a major piece of Rio Tinto PLC's Australian coal business, swooping in to disrupt an agreed-upon deal to sell the assets to a Chinese company. (foxbusiness.com)
  • In Australia, Mr. Glasenberg is targeting Rio Tinto coal assets that the company has long coveted. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Glencore said Friday its offer was $100 million richer than the amount Rio Tinto agreed on in January with Yancoal Australia Ltd. for Coal & Allied Industries Ltd. Coal & Allied has significant operations in Australia's Hunter Valley, where Glencore also has a big coal business, offering the potential for two of the world's largest mining companies to marry operations and save money. (foxbusiness.com)
  • If successful in buying Coal & Allied from Rio Tinto, Glencore said it would explore selling up to a 50% stake in the business and look to sell other coal assets so that its total financial commitment wouldn't exceed $1.5 billion. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The development will include six open-cut pits and five underground mines, together with associated infrastructure like a coal handling and processing plant, waste dumps and a rail line. (earthjustice.org)
  • These communities were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s when Canadian Pacific Rail, drawn by the area's vast coal deposits, extended its main line from Lethbridge westward along this route. (cbc.ca)
  • Not only were the Smiths upset about the prospect of mining nearby, the company was planning to build a 500-acre above-ground coal processing facility and rail transfer point, all in close proximity to their farm. (truthout.org)
  • An eye-catching image shows a snowboarder riding a rail with conveyer belts and a coal bin at the mine as the background. (aspentimes.com)
  • Most New Zealand coals have an ash content of less than 4%, which is lower than most Carboniferous coals. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In the first step, vegetation and the accumulated topsoil are removed for restoring previously mined areas. (mining-technology.com)
  • However, even when the topsoil remains untouched, mining under the surface can have serious and lasting effects on farmland. (truthout.org)
  • Large-scale coal mining developed during the Industrial Revolution, and coal provided the main source of primary energy for industry and transportation in industrial areas from the 18th century to the 1950s. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Columbus, Ohio-based coal industry operative brought the hammer down on John Kerry's White House run in 2004 with television ads in critical coal swing states labeling the Massachusetts senator a job-killing extremist. (politico.com)
  • At the very least, some of Carey's adversaries say he has heightened the profile of an Ohio coal industry that has been steadily shrinking. (politico.com)
  • We're glad to see the EPA's decision to stand up to the coal industry and continue defending the basic right of everyday families to clean water. (peoplesworld.org)
  • President Bush and Vice President Cheney have long "delivered" to the coal industry, which has returned the favor with fat checks. (heraldnet.com)
  • Coal operators and state safety officials disagree, arguing that West Virginia's certification processes should make it next to impossible for such a population to get jobs in the industry. (alipac.us)
  • The Prosper-Haniel mine in the western city of Bottrop and another colliery in Ibbenbueren, 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the north, were the last remnants of an industry that once dominated the region, employing half a million people at its peak in the 1950s. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Environmentalists cheered the move, but the coal industry criticized the government for imposing rules that companies fear could hurt jobs in the region. (foodsafetynews.com)
  • Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part photo series looking at the impact of the coal industry in rural China. (chinadialogue.net)
  • [ 8 ] The incidence of silicosis (50%-60%) and mortality (10%-100%) for these occupations far outnumber the mortality (6 per 1000 workers) for chronic silicosis within the silica mining industry. (medscape.com)
  • Specifically, we emphasise that the process of looking for coal and the creation of a natural resource industry in itself is important beyond the obvious dichotomy of haves and have-nots. (lu.se)
  • Thousands of Australians including farmers on horseback rallied in the heart of Sydney yesterday, calling on authorities to ditch coal and gas mining developments in rural regions in favour of renewable energy projects. (gulf-times.com)
  • WASHINGTON (CN) - Two Appalachian crayfish species have been proposed for endangered status under the Endangered Species Act due to coal mining and road construction. (courthousenews.com)
  • Additionally, coal processing creates a byproduct, a toxic liquid slurry, that is stored near the facilities and can contaminate groundwater. (truthout.org)
  • Additionally, as will be discussed here, creating such an inert atmosphere in an area of a coal mine where combustion is ongoing, can extinguish the combustion process. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2002, it was transformed into a private mine with an annual capacity of 150,000 tons. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The mine would bury hundreds of miles of streams beneath tons of waste. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Menar has ramped up the Khanye Colliery, in Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng, which is producing 2.4-million tons of coal a year. (miningweekly.com)
  • 2001 (AUS-2001-R-97947) Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2001. (ilo.org)
  • Clearly, many of the problems associated with coal could be lessened with responsible government regulation. (heraldnet.com)
  • In Australia, "colliery" generally refers to an underground coal mine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mining operations started at the Phalanndwa Colliery extension following the first large-scale blasting of coal on July 17, 2019. (miningweekly.com)
  • In underground mines, coal dust explosions are prevented by the addition of rock dust sufficient to render the coal dust inert. (cdc.gov)
  • The focus of this paper is the utilization of a GAG 3A jet engine system to combat either large out-of-control fires or to render an entire mine inert when access to problem areas is difficult or impossible. (cdc.gov)
  • Other methods to inert mine areas have been used in the US and internationally, but these methods usually use low flow inertisation equipment or methods. (cdc.gov)
  • Use of these low-flow inertisation equipment and methods has been successful in proactively rendering gob areas inert and has the ability to inert the entire mine workings. (cdc.gov)
  • This creates an inert atmosphere that will not sustain the self combustion of coal and, therefore, limits the potential for these types of hazardous fire events or as a potential ignition source for an explosion. (cdc.gov)
  • abandoned areas to permit benign, inert atmospheres to accumulate and to limit the area requiring mine ventilation is common to all coal mining regions. (cdc.gov)
  • Mining can also destroy the extensive drainage tile systems that generations of farmers have developed to remove excess water from farmland. (truthout.org)
  • Elsewhere, presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat, has been demanding huge taxpayer subsidies for coal-to-liquids projects that could produce a gasoline substitute. (heraldnet.com)
  • Coal was formed from plants laid down in peat swamps. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Coal is a combustible rock formed from the altered remains of ancient vegetation laid down in peat swamps. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The transition from peat to coal (coalification) occurs over millions of years as peat is buried and consolidated by the weight of overlying sediments. (teara.govt.nz)
  • High-grade coal contains little mineral matter, whereas lower-grade coal contains more mineral matter, mainly from mud in the peat swamp. (teara.govt.nz)
  • As coal becomes buried more deeply, it goes through a sequence of changes in rank: from peat to lignite, sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal, semi-anthracite, and anthracite. (teara.govt.nz)
  • From peat to bituminous coal there is a progressive loss of water and a proportionate increase in carbon. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In general, claystones beneath coals represent ancient soils and coals represent the accumulation of peat-forming wetlands. (uky.edu)
  • Coal mats and stringers in mine roofs without underlying rooting or claystones can represent transported and compacted logs and ripped-up fragments of peat. (uky.edu)
  • S. 272 prohibits the employment of persons under the age of 16 in undeground mines. (ilo.org)
  • Some of Illinois' prime farmland is torn up for surface mines. (truthout.org)
  • But ten years later the huge firms are suffering losses, and the true costs of coal that were hidden by the boom are now increasingly apparent in environmental destruction and serious harm to human health from mining, transportation and coal use. (chinadialogue.net)
  • In addition to Inner Mongolia, other coal-producing areas, such as Shanxi and Anhui provinces and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, have introduced photovoltaic power generation projects to reclaim mined-out land. (nepalnews.com)
  • Bituminous Coal Underground Mining aren't as ubiquitous as most other types of businesses in the U.S. Still, across the entire United States, there are more than 400 Bituminous Coal Underground Mining. (gaebler.com)
  • The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) developed a hand-held instrument that uses optical reflectance to measure the explosibility of a rock dust and coal dust mixture. (cdc.gov)
  • This instrument is called the Coal Dust Explosibility Meter (CDEM). (cdc.gov)
  • Many look nervously at the environmental damage just over the border in B.C., where coal mines have led to many complaints over the years about black dust in the air, contaminated well water and mass deaths or deformations of rare fish. (cbc.ca)
  • Along with sinking ground, underground mines usually involve on-site processing facilities, which can spread coal dust over crops. (truthout.org)
  • Coal worker pneumoconiosis is a lung disease caused by deposits of coal mining dust in the lungs. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Prevention by minimizing exposure to coal mining dust is important. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In simple coal worker pneumoconiosis, coal mining dust collects around the small airways (bronchioles) of the lungs. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Large scars (at least ½ inch [about 1.3 centimeters] in diameter) develop in the lungs as a reaction to coal mining dust. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Progressive massive fibrosis may worsen even after exposure to coal mining dust stops. (msdmanuals.com)
  • that results from inhaling coal mining dust over a long time, often 10 years or more. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The quantity of crystalline silica in coal mining dust is also an important risk factor for progressive disease. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The sale would rid Rio of nearly all of its thermal coal, though it still produces significant amounts of metallurgical coal, an ingredient in steel. (foxbusiness.com)
  • New Zealand coals have characteristics that distinguish them from coals found in other countries. (teara.govt.nz)
  • A Cumbrian campaign group have been granted permission for a judicial review of Cumbria County Council's decision to allow a deep coal mine to be built. (itv.com)
  • The U.S. District Court judge, Amy Berman Jackson, stated that the EPA's unilateral decision, in January, to rescind a waste disposal permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, W.Va. was a case of the agency overstepping its mark and violating federal law. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Back in August the Animas River in southwestern Colorado turned orange for miles after millions of gallons of mine waste erupted from an inactive gold mine. (skytruth.org)
  • Measures are directed at reducing emissions and releases of mercury to the environment from large-scale industrial plants such as coal-fired power stations, industrial boilers, waste incinerators and cement clinker facilities. (who.int)
  • Today, the ancestral homelands of the Wangan and Jagalingou are threatened with destruction by the development of up to six massive coal mines. (earthjustice.org)
  • Unfortunately, the government and the developer of the mine, Adani Mining Pty Ltd., continue to pursue the mine's development despite the Wangan and Jagalingou never consenting to the destruction of their lands and, in fact, twice rejecting an agreement with Adani. (earthjustice.org)
  • The National Wildlife Federation has spent years working collaboratively with tribes, ranchers, sportsmen, and others to fight against the mining of this sacred place and the destruction of the communities and wildlife that call it home. (nwf.org)
  • All sections of the plant are capable of producing two product streams simultaneously and blend feed and product coals effectively. (mining-technology.com)
  • Millions of years later, men mined it in dirty conditions to power steel mills and winter fires. (teara.govt.nz)
  • According to OSM definitions this database of problematic coal mines includes 1,167 "Dangerous Impoundments", 1,298 sites with polluted groundwater ("Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial" and "Polluted Water: Human Consumption"), and 276 "Underground Mine Fires" like the one still burning beneath the ghost town of Centralia . (skytruth.org)
  • CO is a major component of smoke produced in most open fires, particularly those involving wood, coal, gasoline, and other organic substances. (medscape.com)
  • The company has put its Australian operations on the market, and once those assets are sold, the $33 billion mining juggernaut will no longer include coal within its entire global business operations. (triplepundit.com)
  • Rio Tinto's CEO, Jean-Sebastien Jacques, also told Bloomberg that it has been selling its coal portfolio for a good price, allowing the company to return more cash to shareholders. (triplepundit.com)
  • In a report to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management made public on November 15, 2009, as part of a lawsuit filed last January, Mountain Coal Company, asserts it is not "economically feasible" to capture and use, or otherwise address, methane currently venting into the atmosphere at the West Elk coal mine. (earthjustice.org)
  • That undermines the plausibility of the economic analysis submitted by Mountain Coal Company. (earthjustice.org)
  • Since the company's stock recovered, Mr. Glasenberg has engineered the purchase of a stake in Russian state oil company PAO Rosneft, taken full control of a Congolese mine and made a nearly $10 billion offer to take over agricultural trader Bunge Ltd. (foxbusiness.com)
  • About six years ago, the Indiana-based company Sunrise Coal, LLC sought to buy the mineral rights underlying farms in Vermillion County. (truthout.org)
  • Some of the Smiths' neighbors sold their mineral rights to the company, which proceeded with plans for a new mine. (truthout.org)
  • For these reasons, coal has been one of the first fossil fuels to be phased out of various parts of the global energy economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Compared to wood fuels, coal yields a higher amount of energy per unit mass, specific energy or massic energy, and can often be obtained in areas where wood is not readily available. (wikipedia.org)
  • Coal remains an important energy source. (wikipedia.org)
  • By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's drive to ramp up coal output to meet growing energy needs has resulted in members of the Adivasi tribe being displaced from their ancestral lands and forced to wait years to be resettled, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. (yahoo.com)
  • And so without tougher rules and a technological breakthrough, coal cannot be the answer to our energy prayers. (heraldnet.com)
  • The global market for coal and gas is changing and global approaches to energy are changing," said Georgina Woods, the "Time2Choose" rally organiser from anti-coal group Lock The Gate said. (gulf-times.com)
  • Owned by China Energy Shandong Coal Group Co., Ltd., it covered an area of 192.63 square km. (nepalnews.com)
  • These days, mining has stopped, but energy is still being produced, this time with a greater focus on the ecological environment. (nepalnews.com)
  • Aspen's Skiing Co.'s latest alternative-energy project is operating at full capacity, even though the coal mine it is tied to has closed. (aspentimes.com)
  • Schendler said Holy Cross Energy has a 15-year contract to purchase power from Skico's coal-methane system. (aspentimes.com)
  • Forty years of rapid economic growth in China has driven a huge demand for energy that has transformed the landscape of coal-rich provinces in the south-east and north of the country. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Local economies hitched their carts to the coal boom and got rich from the energy buried beneath the ground. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Natural resources, especially energy resources, are often considered vital to the process of economic development, with the availability of coal considered central for the nineteenth century. (lu.se)
  • article{792b2ce3-e51b-4336-b691-d82109c34518, abstract = {{Natural resources, especially energy resources, are often considered vital to the process of economic development, with the availability of coal considered central for the nineteenth century. (lu.se)
  • In the period leading up to Second World War, energy intensity and energy-intensive patterns of trade bore a striking resemblance to the coal-rich West. (lu.se)
  • Radiation monitoring in the mining and milling of radioactive ores / jointly sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Labour Organisation and the World Health Organization. (who.int)
  • Human rights in natural resource development : public participation in the sustainable development of mining and energy resources / edited by Donald N. Zillman, Alastair R. Lucas and George (Rock) Pring. (who.int)