ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND IMPACTS ITS MITIGATION MEASURES OF

CORPORATE COAL MINING

Mining produces environmental impacts environmental issues such as
deforestation. for mishandling the exploitation of minerals and metals will be worse
negative impacts, people often think that mining has negative impacts but mining
also produces positive impacts, through the years mining is improving. Mining
requires large tracts of land, leading to the removal of vegetation, relocation of
wildlife, water contamination, dust, and noise produced by machinery and
exploitation. When project planning control measures to reduce the
aforementioned impacts are taken.
It is estimated that the largest coal production are in Europe, Asia, North America
and Australia. The global coal resource was estimated at 847 billion tons,
according to the World Coal Association.
There are two kinds of mining open pit and underground.
Open pit mining; which involves removing the soil to reach the coal that are
capable fences to the surface, although it is the most impacts occur when it
becomes necessary to do since it is cheaper unlike underground mining. The open
pit mining has certain aspects such as the destruction of the space where the
project is developed, when rain in mining areas scour the ground water exploitation
and carries sediment into rivers contaminating nearby, the dust that pollutes the air
and the noise of the machines. Mining tailings generated can be the land that is
removed to make it to coal. for the recovery of land affected by mining there is also
planning this is called closure and abandonment of mines, for this through the
development of the project monitoring the air quality is made, and the level
measured the intensity of noise produced.
Underground mining; this is seen as less destructive than open pit mining, it
becomes able to pull the coal that are deeper. But this does not mean that cause
less damage, or is less economic. This develops from the opening of a door in the
face of the earth and as the mineral is removed, allowed to mine subsidence
occurs. Deep mining impacts as a sudden collapse of the mine explosions poor
control of the gases that cause the death of many people, the water must change
their currents, pumping thousands of gallons of water that often wasted.
In underground mining where there is more presence of methane gas which is
reused in projects for the benefit of communities.

Coal combustion produces large storage batteries generate these combustion

fumes laden with carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and others. This also
generates higher temperatures.
Mining causes diseases not only those who work in it but to nearby towns, caused
by dust reaching drinking water also affect livestock and crops. Chemicals such as
arsenic, cadmium and lead severely damaging the cancer population, affects the
cardiovascular system and respiratory system.
When miners breathe coal dust, this reaches the lungs causing diseases such as
pneumoconiosis in the population are personan with hypertension, lung and kidney
diseases.
The result of mining is sterile cells, but this reforestation, improved soil to grow
again, it is not impossible as many people think it does. So it makes planning the
closure and abandonment of the mine.

ENGLISH ESSAY

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND IMPACTS ITS MITIGATION

MEASURES OF CORPORATE COAL MINING

PRESENTED BY: DANNA VIDES; ESTEFANI PALACIO; WILMER

MOLINA

TEACHER: DANIEL COTES

FUAA

VALLEDUPAR CESAR

01/01/2015