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Quarries are bad for the environment in several ways. They abruptly interrupt the continuity of open space, ruining habitats for flora and fauna, cause soil erosion, air and dust pollution, damage to caves, loss of land, and deterioration in water quality. When they are near residential areas, they create noise hazards because of …
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This paper examines the challenges of quarrying activities on sustainable quality water resources in Abakaliki and environs and the socio-economic implications …
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Abakal Mahamat: For a banking group like ours, present in 11 countries, with a marked presence in Paris, France, where the effects of the pandemic were among the most pronounced, we had to reinvent ourselves to preserve our quality of service, our privileged relationships with our clients, and our contribution to the growth of the …
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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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This study aimed to investigate the health effects of dust exposure on people living close to quarry sites and compared them with those who live far from the quarry sites. A cross-sectional comparative study was conducted among 79 exposed participants, who lived less than 500 m away from the quarry sites, and 79 control …
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local environment and health of the quarry workers and nearby local residents. During extraction and processing, around 50-70 % of the extracted stone is wasted in the form of waste slurry and scrap
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Stone crushing and quarrying activities have considerable effects on environmental quality and human health. Present study was conducted to assess environmental perspectives of various stone ...
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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. Zamfara is one of the poorest states in Nigeria where youths are engaged in small-scale quarrying.
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from the residents living less than 100 to 200 meters nearby the quarry site areas. But prior to conducting the study, a letter of permit to conduct the study was given to the Environment and ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF STONE QUARRYING: IN DIRE DAWA ADMINISTRATION 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the study All over the world there is a realization that quarrying activities has evolved over time to mining industry that has the potential to provide hither to unparalleled services to management in their efforts …
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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 ...
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Figure (2): Quarries, stone factories and workshops distribution in WB. Source: Abu Hanieh, et al, 2013. In spite that quarrying and stone industry revitalizing the local economy, but
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The biggest challenge faced in stone quarrying was the effect on human health while the least was seasonality of quarrying activities. Findings indicated that there was a strong positive relationship between the challenges of stone quarrying activities and the negative impacts that come as a result of stone quarrying.
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This study was designed to analyse the effect of duration of exposure, job profile and smoking on lung function of stone quarry workers from Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir State, India.
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local residents due to stone quarrying, 68 workers and 27 l ocal residents were interviewed. Results of the health survey show that 65.5 % of the workers surveyed were affected by breathing ...
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Stone quarrying continues to play major role in this process. However, the activity has caused serious environmental degradation and socio-economic conflicts in the study area. The major environmental and socio-economic problems related to quarrying revealed during this study include, landscape alteration, hill cutting affecting local ...
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4. Deforestation. Land must be cleared to create a quarry which can disrupt a pre-existing ecosystem, resulting in land degradation and the loss of vegetation. This displaces animals who live in the area and can leave …
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The present article is an attempt to appraise the importance of the stone quarrying in the village-level micro economy as well as to study the adverse effects of such destructive activities on nature.
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Rural stone quarrying is thus one of the key items in the achievement of development in most counties in Kenya in this case Nyambera in Kisii County because of the fact that rural areas carry a large percentage of the Kenyan population. Most people engage stone quarrying because of low finance involved in the activity.
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companies, assess critically the economic, environmental and social effects of the quarrying activities, identify and assess existing mitigating measures by quarry companies in the Wenchi Municipality, and provide policy recommendations on sustainable stone quarrying in the Wenchi Municipality.
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ABSTRACT. The issue of children involvement in the quarry business in Ghana has attracted attention both internationally and locally. The study critically examined the effects of stone quarry on the basic education children in the Paanor community in Ghana. A descriptive survey was used for this study.
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This study investigates how the unregulated and unscientific manner of stone quarrying in Bangladesh degrades the environment and affects the life and livelihoods of the local people. The recent countrywide construction boom and infrastructural development kept the GDP growth constant in Bangladesh. This …
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Mining and quarrying activities is one of the devolved units of the County Government. This means the future and benefits of dimension stone quarrying lies on the Kiambu County Government in terms ...
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The data collected from hospital records of quarry workers portrayed their health profile while the prevalent health problems of the nearby residents were elicited from a questionnaire survey ...
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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 ...
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Using the resource curse theory as a philosophical lens, this study qualitatively analysed the effects of the stone quarrying industry in the Wenchi municipality of Ghana. Using the case study ...
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PDF Stone Quarrying and Livelihood Transformation in mini stone crusher machine local fabri ed in Nigeria. Quarrying activities i n Buoho have negative effects on the health of …
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Compared with the dry season, the analyses indicated that the effect of acid rain was more evident directly at the quarry sites, and the negative environmental effects were more prevalent in the ...
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Stone-quarrying activities leads to several health-related problems such as coughing, body muscle pain, eye problems, ear infections, malaria, and pneumonia. 75% of people. working in the quarry site suffer from coughing while 54.2% suffer from eye infections. This is because the activity produces a lot of dust.
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Quarrying also brings with it passive factors that directly contribute to traffic congestion and road damage around the area. The vibrations from the construction equipment also aid in weakening the structures close to the pits. Landslides are common in areas that are near quarrying operations. It is undeniable that quarrying is a necessity …
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