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Quarry workers and residents of quarry communities were advised to go for regular eye and general health checkups to ensure that any health problem they have is identified early and properly ...
Many local people complained about various negative effects of stone quarrying activities. A vast majority of respondent stated that they suffered severely from the noise pollution caused from the ...
By implementing this algorithm, production costs, energy, and water consumption, cutting tools consumption, and waste production can be significantly reduced, leading to …
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 …
People in the region faces several health issues due to drilling, ... The study concluded that there is no significant direct effect of stone quarrying on groundwater in Mahendragarh district.
Spread out across more than 100 km2 on both banks of the Nile, the quarry landscape covers almost the entire history of humankind, featuring everything from Palaeolithic tool workshops, massive grinding-stone industries, quarries for sculpture and building stones, to the most famous of all quarries in Egypt, the Unfinished Obelisk quarry of New ...
But residents like Andrew Rushton, led by the Pleasant Chase Homeowners Association, worry the blasting regulations fail to account for the cumulative effect of years of blasting. Homeowner Andrew Rushton points out cracks in his wall that he believes are caused by weekly blasting at the nearby Savage Stone quarry.
the workers and nearby residents in the Keru quarry area. Workers and residents were interviewed and ... these quarries have depths of more than 5-10 m in the quarrying area. There are 113 stone ...
This paper examines the challenges of quarrying activities on sustainable quality water resources in Abakaliki and environs and the socio-economic implications of the effects on the people in...
The paper examined the effects of small-scale stone quarrying on poverty reduction among youths in Zamfara State. The paper is based on the argument that small-scale stone quarrying has the potentials to reduce poverty in low income settings. ... an estimate of 13 million people earn their living directly from small-scale mining and up to 100 ...
Quarrying of rocks and minerals has contributed to the economic development of many nations. However, dusts generated from these quarries have caused environmental and health challenges. Health risk assessment of the environments around quarries in southwestern Nigeria was, therefore, carried out to delineate the effects of quarrying on the environment. …
these four quarry sites have been selected on the random sampling. Forty members are taken as respondents from quarry residing areas and twenty members are as worker respondents. 3. Results and Discussion 3.1 Environmental Impacts The quarrying activities that are carried out by man affect our environment in one way or the other. Both
References in literature show that non-European stone quarrying processes release elements into the environment such as dust, sludge or other industrial waste that may be toxic and constitute a ...
This adverse influence of stone and sand quarry-ing induces damage in property, depletion of ground wa-ter, loss of fertile topsoil, degradation of forests, deterio-ration in aquatic biodiversity ...
Environmental Effect of Quarrying Activities in Oba-Ile, Akure, Ondo State, South-West Nigeria ... Rock-quarrying and stone crushing is a global phenomenon, and has been the ... Table 3 below shows the summary of what the residents and market people around the quarry environment experienced pertaining to suspended solids/dust especially during ...
findings indicated that the major socio-environmental impacts of stone quarrying are reduction of agricultural yields, farm obstacle, loss of biodiversity, habitat and deforestation, land use …
In LLMICs in particular, quarries have a negative effect on children's health and the environment, but are also found to worsen socio-economic conditions (Amnesty International, 2016b;Hilson, 2008 ...
A binary logistic regression model was done to identify the independent variables of communities unaware of the impacts of stone quarrying. 62.7% and 57.38% of the surveyed s had aware of ...
The main aim of the survey was to assess the impact of stone waste on the health of the people working on the site, and the residents living near the quarrying area. A total of 10 quarrying and stone cutting locations and a village near the quarrying area (village near locations 6 and 7 in Fig. 5.2, village name: "Shiv sarnonkidhani") were ...
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. The end product materials from the quarries include marble, gravel, granite, dimension stone and limestone which are ...
ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF STONE QUARRYING: THE CASE OF WENCHI MUNICIPALITY IN THE BRONG AHAFO REGION OF GHANA By ... have been several concerns raised by many people especially the host communities who are farmers and depend mainly on agriculture for their livelihood, with regards to land degradation, ...
It has detrimental effects on people and environment including flora and fauna, change in soil pH, results in the formation of haze thereby reducing visibility in surrounding areas. Stone crushing generates huge amount of dust of various …
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 peri- Urban …
environmental effects of stone quarrying in Tuluongoi Sub location, Tenges Division, Baringo County. Specifically, it sought to examine the social effects of stone quarrying; to establish the effects of stone quarrying on the physical environment; to determine the
This study found that the local Khasi people of the stone quarrying area have been experiencing systematic and forcible dispossession due to merging their lands into stone quarrying sites. These people are the victims of different forms of pollution due to unregulated stone quarrying. ... 2018). Effects of stone quarrying on the social system ...
It has detrimental effects on people and environment including flora and fauna, change in soil pH, results in the formation of haze thereby reducing visibility in surrounding areas. Stone crushing generates huge amount of dust of various sizes, which passes into air and disperse considerable amount of suspended particulate matter and gaseous ...
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...
The 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.
Deforestation and habitat destruction associated with stone quarrying: Reduce carbon sequestration capacity, exacerbating climate change effects. Alteration of landscapes and hydrological patterns: Disrupt local ecosystems, increasing climate-related risks such as …
This study examined the impacts of stone quarrying activities on sustainable livelihoods and the environment, and the implications of the impacts for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in selected host communities …
