The mining industry impacts. directly on the macro-economy by improving. infrastructure, increasing employment, developing rural communities and enabling. new spin-offs and downstream businesses ...

Bio-diversity. The first and direct impact of mining operations in forested areas is the eviction of forests which alters the food availabilities and wildlife habitat. Kumar and Pandey (2013) 62 noticed that in some of the coal mines, the forest cover is completely lost to the mining enterprises.

The use of various socio-economic indicators helps understanding of the reported negative impacts of mining on local economies. The results show that the coal mining sector creates a spillover effect resulting in an increase in non-mining …

Coal is South Africa's major primary energy source, and plays a significant role in supplying the chemicals and steelmaking industries. The benefits of coal production are relevant in the light of South Africa's development priorities of job creation and economic growth. Even so, primary metal production and coal-based power generation industries, through their …

Case study. To answer the question of whether there are economic and social benefit of coal mining activities in the regional Queensland, this study compares selected socio-economic indicators between LGAs with coal mining activities and …

5. Resources. Coal: social, environmental and economic concerns. •Coking coal: derived from bituminous coal, by destructive distillation. It is hard and dark/greyish, it has few impurities and high carbon content and it is used particularly as a fuel in the industry (e.g. iron). •Steam coal: (also called thermal coal) all other ...

Socio-economic Impact Assessm ent and Community Engagement Reports are published by the Australian Coal Association Research Program. These reports represent the provisional fi ndings of …

knowledge on the socio-economic impacts of mine closure (up to August 2017). It also enabled us to single out knowledge gaps and to identify topics that are suitable for further, future analysis. Then, in a secondary analysis, we distilled insights from the literature about the type of measures taken to address

This research article examines the impacts of coal mining on financial, physical, human, natural, and social capitals and how these capitals affect the rural livelihood practices in the Sonepur-Bazari opencast coal mining area in Raniganj …

This paper examines economic impacts of coal mining across local government areas (LGAs) in Australia. Three main distinguishing features of this research are a) the analysis through the mining boom and bust cycle, b) a focus on small regional areas within one state in Australia and c) the use of socio-economic indicators in …

The demand of coal has led to expand the mining activities nationwide, which helps to improve the economic growth of the national capital. At the same time, it is the source of inevitable social and environmental consequences. In the developing countries, especially rural areas are often affected by this complex nature of mining. The …

The socio-economic impacts of mining on local communities: The case of Jordan @article{Rawashdeh2016TheSI, title={The socio-economic impacts of mining on local communities: The case of Jordan}, author={Rami al Rawashdeh and Gary A. Campbell and Awwad Titi}, journal={The Extractive Industries and Society}, year={2016}, …

This review of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and its use in the mining industry has been prepared as a background document for the MMSD Project. The intent is to provide input to the project team and stakeholder engagement process, based on review of literature, professional experience, and input from other professionals.

The South Kalimantan Province is an area with abundant deposits of coal and contributes 16.36 per cent. to the national coal stock. Coal mining is a profitable business. It creates employment, generates value, and improves the foreign investment of a country or region.

The objective of this paper is to analyse the effects of coal mining on local traditional livelihood systems in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The study is carried out using level data collected from four mining villages located in the Ib valley coal field of Odisha. ... The socio-economic conditions, traditional sources of ...

A handful of large-scale producers supply coal primarily to electricity and synthetic fuel producers. About 51 percent of South African coal mining is done underground and about 49 percent is produced by open-cast methods. The coal-mining industry is highly concentrated with five companies accounting for.

The Amajuba District is among one of the major coal mining regions in South Africa, where the mining activities are limited mainly to coal and quarry. Altogether 11 mining rights had been issued in the district as at 2013, with six operational and five pending. The Dannhauser and Emadlangeni local municipalities are hosts to large mining operations …

Mancini and Sala (2018) analysed literature on socio-economic impacts of the mining sector around the world. The results suggested that the frequency of negative impacts overwhelmingly exceeded positive impacts. However, some research points out the positive effect of coal mining on regions (Hajkowicz et al., 2011; Petkova-Timmer et al., …

The case-by-case socio-environmental-economic impact analysis of coal-mining projects ensures that only projects with positive net social benefits are chosen to proceed. With ever rising energy demand coal is likely to continue to be significant …

which mining operations can impact development and have done so already; it also investigates under what circumstances and policy frame-works the mining sector has been able to act as an engine of sustained and widespread socioeconomic growth in low- and middle-income coun-tries. The Natural Resource Curse

Singh R. Mining and Its Impact on Tribals in India: Socio-Economic and Environmental Risks. International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research. 2015;3(2):429-439.

This paper examines economic impacts of coal mining across local government areas (LGAs) in Australia. Three main distinguishing features of this research are a) the analysis through the mining boom and bust cycle, b) a focus on small regional areas within one state in Australia and c) the use of socio-economic indicators in …

Socio-economic Impact Assessment and Community Engagement Reports are published by the Australian Coal Association Research Program. These reports represent the provisional findings of the ...

According to the estimation, the economically. recoverable coal reserves in South Africa are between 15 and 55 billion tonnes, which means the. existing productive coal mines can be mined from 15 ...

The case-by-case socio-environmental-economic impact analysis of coal-mining projects ensures that only projects with positive net social benefits are chosen to proceed. With ever rising energy demand coal is likely to continue to be significant source of energy, while expanded implementation of clean coal technologies will help to reduce ...

Assessing the Social and Economic Impacts of Coal Mining on Communities in the Bowen Basin: Summary and Recommendations RESEARCH REPORT No. 11 John Rolfe, Galina Ivanova and Stewart Lockie SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO REDUCE CONFLICT OVER MINE …

This study assesses the impact of the development and opening of four coal mines in Mozambique's Tete province on socio-economic outcomes of the local population. We combine four waves of surveys with the information of coal mine locations and employ a difference-in-difference model to estimate the effect.

It can be seen from the Table 6 that 38 (52.8 percent) of the Kolam s earn Rs. 50,001-1,00,000 and 22 (30.6 percent) s earn Rs. 1,00,001-1,50,000 per annum. There is only one Kolam family that earns more than three lakh per annum which is very less when compared to the Lambadas 46 (27.1 percent).

Socio-economic problems arising from local ownership of natural resources owing to Meghalaya coming under the 6 th Schedule of the Indian Constitution. ... taking both experimental and control villages into account, tried to explore the impact of coal mining on local environment. Although dealing with local environment, it has mostly focused on ...

100,000 tons of coal per day, the n ation can derive a lot from its coal potential for over 40. years. The ministry of mines of mines of Ethiopia claims that there is 430 million potential of ...