Assessment of Particulate and Trace Element Pollution in Airborne Dust around a Highly Mechanized Opencast Coal Mine in Talcher, Odisha

Tripathy, Debi Prasad; Dash, Tushar Ranjan

doi:10.1134/s1062739118044784

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“…Of the analysed studies, only one [43] was conducted in a construction-site environment; all other studies concerned mines or quarry sites. The exploited materials were, from the most commonly to least commonly exploited: coal [6,22,[30][31][32]41,44,52,56], iron [25,42], limestone [28,53], aggregates [24,51], taconite [47], granite [46], sandstone [55], copper [45], gold [48], platinum [54], and manganese [25].…”

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“…The discussion will be oriented towards analysis, considering: job-related variables, engineering variables, technical variables, and physical variables. Among all the eligible papers, nine collected dust samples concerning activities, which are described in Table 2 [6,25,41,43,45,46,50,52,53].…”

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“…It is known that dust emissions significantly impact air pollution and, consequently, human health [5]. Anthropogenic activities such as mining (and quarrying) and other earthworks involving off-road vehicles cause health-and-safety-related issues for the involved personnel, as well as environmental problems that can affect local communities [4,6]. Almost every activity in mining exploitation (drilling, blasting, crushing, conveying, transporting, etc.)…”

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“…Despite the experimental protocol of each paper, only 15 out of the 24 papers referred to dust-particle size [6,22,24,25,28,31,[43][44][45]48,49,51,52,55,56]. The remaining papers did not specify this parameter, despite mentioning "respirable dust" [41,47,53], "respirable and inhalable" [42,54], or just "dust" [32,50].…”

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“…Of the studies analysing personal exposure, only one reported the demographic data of workers [54]. Regarding the data-collection process, 10 out of the 24 articles used or applied the experimental protocol through standards: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) [31,56]; International Organisation for Standardisation, ISO-589 (1981), ISO-1171ISO- (1976, and ISO-562 (1974) [56]; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, (NIOSH) 0600 [46,47], NIOSH 7500 [42,47], and NIOSH 7602 [54]; National Ambient Air Quality Standards, NAAQS 2009 [6], Directorate General of Mines Safety of India [30,53]; and the Chinese Ministry of Health [32]. Additionally, each study applied its own experimental protocol (time sampling, frequency, among other variables), making it almost impossible to compare the various studies.…”

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Occupational Exposure to Mineral Dust in Mining and Earthmoving Works: A Scoping Review

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Branco

Rodrigues

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Anthropogenic activity is related to several environmental imbalances, including dust. Particulate matter can also hinder humans with numerous health consequences, such as asthma, cancer, and pneumoconiosis. With a particular focus on mineral dust, this review is intended to determine in which circumstances occupational exposure occurs in the mining and earthmoving industries. Research followed the guidelines provided by the preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols and its extension for scoping reviews. Of the 8993 records identified, only 24 passed both exclusion and inclusion criteria. Within the pool of results, it was possible to identify the following variables related to dust exposure: job-related (activity, job category, and site), engineering (equipment, transport system), technical (distance), and physical (season and weather) variables. Due to the significant variance in protocol settings, it was challenging to perform a general analysis, resulting in a study-by-study approach. The most significant conclusion of this study is not related to the setting of occupational exposure, although it derives from it. The necessity of adopting standard procedures for data collection, independent of research objective, was demonstrated within the context of occupational exposure to mineral dust.

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