The effect of dust from mining activities on crops in the …
Quarrying activities impact the life of the communities living around the quarry zones and those working in the quarry positively or negatively (Nartey et al., 2012). A number of scholars for ...
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Stone Quarrying and Livelihood Transformation in Peri …
The first site was an old, abandoned stone-quarrying site; the second was where quarrying work was actively going on at the time of the study; and the third was an area never before exposed to ...
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Environmental sustainability assessment due to stone quarrying …
Quarrying and crushing activities constitute a major threat to the environment and occupational health of the workers in Jaflong, Sylhet. This study aims to determine the environmental sustainability of stone quarrying and crushing activities considering four dominant environmental components, viz. physicochemical parameters …
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(PDF) An Exploratory Factor Analysis on Issues and …
Stone quarrying is a form of land use method concerned with the extraction of non-fuel and non-metal minerals from rocks. Using the qualitative model, the paper interrogates the impact of stone quarrying on the livelihoods of the workers and provides critical insights into the effects of stone quarrying on the environment.
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Self‐reported disease symptoms of stone quarry workers …
Stone quarry workers who work between 1‐100 m and beyond 100 m from the crusher with the required PPE were 90% and 87% respectively less likely to report eye irritation compared with their counterparts who work between 1 and 100 m from the crusher without the required PPE. ... (below 35 years) workers. This outcome indicates a positive …
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(PDF) Environmental Impact of Concrete
Development of robust concrete mixes with a lower environmental impact is challenging due to natural variability in constituent materials and a multitude of possible combinations of mix proportions.
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Effect of particulate matter from quarry activities on crops
In South-Eastern Nigeria, several quarry operations provide 8.7% of the country's annual GDP to the economy. These businesses do, however, frequently cause air pollution. Extech Model VPC300 was used to measure PM2.5, PM10, and various meteorological factors, and conduct a social survey to determine the impact of …
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Social and Environmental effects of Stone …
governing stone quarrying and the need to develop a county quarrying and mining policy. The study recommends future research on the individual and institutional factors …
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Bio-Physical and Socio-Economic Effects of …
There is need to emphasis on rehabilitation of the quarry sites, ensure all stone quarries are regulated through EIA licensing process, annual environmental audit should be conducted, quarry sites should be clearly …
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Marble Quarries: Ancient Imperial Administration and
During the past fifty years, identifying ancient quarries and determining marble sources have become central to research related to multiple aspects of the Graeco-Roman world (Pensabene 2013).Understanding the history of quarry use and identifying the origins of marbles used in specific monuments provide indispensable ways to understand the …
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THE EFFECT OF QUARRYING ACTIVITIES ON THE …
Quarrying activity provides much of the materials used in traditional hard flooring, such as granite, limestone, marble, sandstone, slate and even just clay to make ceramic tiles. However, like many other man-made activities (anthropogenic factors), quarrying activities cause significant impact on the environment (Okafor, 2016).
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Assessment of Environmental and Socio-Economic …
This thesis is to certify that the thesis carried out by Zelalem Abate entitled 'Impacts of Stone Quarrying on Environment and Livelihood of Local Communities in Addis Ababa …
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Influence of stone processing dust on mechanical, durability …
Stone quarry dust has recently been widely regarded as a river sand substitute, and to explain impact importance and impact mechanism of stone quarry dust concrete characteristic parameters ...
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Stone Quarrying Impact on Air Soil Water in Ebonyi …
can work back into the valley wall, where the impact is less [5]. Quarries on hills generally have large geomorphic impacts which indicate that crushed stone quarrying have removed an entire karsts hill. The work of Garba [7] states that people living close to the quarries are affected by the activities that go on in that area. In quarrying areas
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Impact of Stone Quarrying on the Environment and …
Request PDF | On Jan 10, 2016, Felix Ming'ate and others published Impact of Stone Quarrying on the Environment and the Livelihood of Communities in Mandera County, …
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An Assessment of Air and Water Pollution Accrued from Stone Quarrying …
This study, therefore, investigated the physical impacts of quarrying on air and water and explored the in-situ mitigations to undesirable effects due to stone quarrying. Four active quarry sites were identified. Field measurements of dust (particulate matter) were conducted within the four quarry sites and in the nearby community.
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF STONE …
Stone and sand quarrying causes damage to property, depletion of ground water, loss of fertile top soil, degradation of forest land, adverse effect on the aquatic biodiversity and …
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Tuberculosis: where and how fast are stone quarry workers …
Key messages Stone quarry workers in a high-risk TB sub-region were infected at an 8.4% annual rate, and could have been infected in community public places such as bars. Besides screening close ...
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ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF BASIC SCHOOL PUPILS IN …
This study investigated the effect of sand winning activities on academic performance of Junior High School pupils in the Awutu-Senya West District in the Central Region of Ghana. ... A. & Afriyie, K. (2014). Stone Quarrying and Livelihood Transformation in Peri-urban Kumasi. Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(13), 93-197 ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF STONE QUARRYING…
Impacts of Stone Quarry on Environments There are several types of impacts which affect the natural as well as human environment; some of them are listed below. 2.7.1. Land degradation Land degradation is one of the significant impacts arising out of mining and quarrying activity which is mainly in the form of alteration of land structure due ...
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Stone quarrying industry
Stone quarrying industry Latest Journal's Impact IF 2021-2022| Trend, Prediction, Ranking & Key Factor Analysis - Academic Accelerator
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Assessing the impact of ecological insecurity on ecosystem …
Stone resources play an effective role in the long-term urban and infrastructural development of any country (Pal and Mandal, 2021a, b).With a long history of growth, the stone quarrying industry is the foundation and one of the ample significant support industries for the national economy (Xing et al., 2017).Stone quarrying simply …
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IMPACT OF CHILD LABOR ON ACADEMIC …
This study assessed the impact of Child labor on academic performance of pupils in selected primary schools in Mpigi town council in Mpigi district. Four specific objectives, four research ... industries. Children are also engaged in domestic work, stone quarrying, and stone crashing and across order smuggling within Uganda.
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Environmental and Socio-economic Impact …
Stone quarrying is a form of land use method concerned with the extraction of non-fuel and non-metal minerals from rocks. Using the qualitative model, the paper interrogates the impact of stone quarrying on the livelihoods …
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A case study of the life cycle impact of limestone …
compares the performance of quarries based on impacts. 2.1.1 Functional unit and system boundary In a life cycle study, the functional unit illustrates the system or the product to study
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Impact of Stone Quarrying on the Environment and the Livelihood …
For instance: Hilson (2002) studied small-scale mining and its socioeconomic impact in developing countries, Langer (2001), studied potential environmental impacts of quarrying stone in karst ...
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Environmental, social and health impacts of stone …
of stone quarrying site is affected by the bad impacts of quarrying activities. Current study examine environmental, social and health impacts of stone quarrying on people of five villages of Mitrapur panchayat of Balasore district. 2. Material and methods 2.1. The study area Balasore district is located in the northern most part of Odisha state.
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BIO-PHYSICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF QUARRYING …
The study revealed that quarrying was a source for livelihood among the community and more men (90%) were involved in quarrying due to masculinity nature of the task. EMPs were found to be ...
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the impact of stone quarrying on academic performance
The products of the quarrying industry such as limestone, sandstone, sand & gravel, slate and china clay are essential to every-day living and critical to the maintenance of the economy and living standards, and this is expected to grow by 20% over the next decade due to the impact of more construction and road building projects.
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Contextualizing the effects of stone quarrying: …
This study therefore aims to: (a) assess the effects of the continuous exploitation of non-renewable resources (stone products) on local communities; (b) to …
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