Despite global initiatives towards green energy, coal remains a vital energy source, and the environmental repercussions of its extraction, especially in small-scale …

Purpose This study's aim was to understand the effect of mine characteristics on cradle-to-gate life cycle impacts of surface coal mining in the USA. Five bituminous coal strip …

The influence of coal mining on the economy, society and environment can be traced back to the study of coal mining in eastern Oklahoma by scholars of Oklahoma State …

The research question is centred on interpreting impact analysis results with energy sources using the life cycle assessment (LCA) method in coal mining. These interpretations …

disturbances in terrestrial ecosystems. Opencast coal mining Highlights • The environmental analysis of coal production in Yimin opencast coal mine was performed using LCA. • …

The main coal mining regions are located in China and the United States. However, Indonesia, Australia, Russia, South Africa and Colombia also produce large amounts …

Coal occupies an absolute advantage in the primary energy structure of China. However, the production of coal poses a serious threat to the ecological environment and human health. In …

the coal being surface mined by strip mining or by the underground technique of longwall mining. The coal is transported via rail, truck, or a combination of rail and barge by one of four cases …

The entire life cycle assessment of the coal-based power system is demonstrated in Fig. 9. Over the entire life of the coal-based power plant, the impact was high at the coal …

Coal is not only the main fossil fuel in China but also a pollution source. To evaluate the impact of coal production on the environment, a life cycle assessment (LCA) was …

Coal resource-based mining cities have been developed on the basis of coal exploration, processing, and production, and function primarily as coal providers [].They are …

damage res ults of environmental impact in the life cycle of coal mining. The production of 1 tonne of. coal damages to human health is 7.38E-04 DAL Y, with a 95% con …

China has the largest coal production in the world due to abundant resource requirements for economic development. In recent years, the proportion of opencast coal mine …

The primary novelty of the paper is the development of a computational environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) model for coal mining operations and the …

Coal is one of the three main energy sources in the world and is used to generate 40.4% of the world's electricity, while coal, peat and oil shale were responsible for 43.9% of …

Coal occupies an absolute advantage in the primary energy structure of China. However, the production of coal poses a serious threat to the ecological environment and …

This paper presents a novel approach to environmental assessment of coal mining operations, which enables assessment of the factors that are both directly and indirectly …

The primary novelty of the paper is the development of a computational environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) model for coal mining operations and the …

Detailed life-cycle assessment may be used to evaluate the climate change implications of mining by employing an inventory of the GHG footprint of each relevant input in …

the coal being surface mined by strip mining or by the underground technique of longwall mining. The coal is transported via rail, truck, or a combination of rail and barge by one of four cases …

Mining of coal is one of the oldest industrial operation. The mining method selected for exploitation is determined mainly by the characteristics of the coal deposit and the limits …

Open-pit mining. Some 53% of South Africa's coal is produced from surface mining, via open-cast or open-pit mines. This is because the coal is less than 60 metres below the surface. Open-pit …

Coal mining - Underground mining: In underground coal mining, the working environment is completely enclosed by the geologic medium, which consists of the coal seam and the overlying and underlying strata. ... The cycle …

The LCA model enables the assessment of environmental indicators for all identified unit processes in hard coal mines with the life cycle approach. The proposed model …

Surface mining, the most common coal mining technique worldwide, causes extreme perturbation to the soil profile that leads to loss of soil fertility, carbon stock, disruption of carbon equilibrium, …

Effects of coal mining. Surface mines (sometimes called strip mines) were the source of about 63% of the coal mined in the United States in 2022. These mining operations …

The Mining Cycle discusses the stages in the life cycle of a mine project, including prospecting and development.