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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Dust. emissions from limestone quarries are a nuisance but do not co nstitute a health. hazard. The level o f quarry noise and vibrations is another environmental problem. that rela tes to the

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Sep 28, 2012 as farming. In Mandera County, stone quarrying provides varying economic benefits to the local economy [15]. However it is not yet clear on the impact of stone quarrying on the environment and the livelihood of the communities in Mandera County, Kenya from the

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Of course, each pit or quarry has unique characteristics and impacts, but every pit or quarry will degrade the natural environment. For pits or quarries situated on lands designated as ecologically significant, this degradation has an even greater adverse impact. For communities, the displacement of water resources is one of the biggest

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Background and aim: Environmental and occupational exposure to high dust levels are known to be associated with lung function impairment. We assessed the ambient air quality in the working environment and the respiratory health of female stone quarry workers in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a context of severe economic, security, and health crises

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Environmental and Social Studies, 2008-2015 Project Phase 2: Concentrator Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Volume 6, Part 3.3: Environmental Management Plan: Quarry Operation March 2013 Environmental Management Plan Operation of Quarries to Provide Construction Materials for Project Phase 2 VERSION DATE: 1 MARCH 2013

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12 hours ago By Brian Maffly. | Nov. 24, 2021, 5:00 a.m. Parleys Canyon may soon be home to an open-pit limestone quarry, according to a proposal filed with Utah mining regulators this month. A recently formed

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Stone quarries are digging up the Hill Country, from Garden Ridge to New Braunfels, resulting in dust-covered homes and scars in the rural landscape

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Nov 17, 2021 A zoning change approved by the Metro Council Tuesday blocks the owners of Bellevue's former Hutton Stone Quarry from filling the pit with any

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Nov 05, 2021 Stone resources play an effective role in the long-term urban and infrastructural development of any country (Pal and Mandal, 2021a, b).With a long history of growth, the stone quarrying industry is the foundation and one of the ample significant support industries for the national economy (Xing et al., 2017).Stone quarrying simply defines the harvesting of raw stone from the

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Sep 17, 2019 Depending on the method used in stone quarrying, there will be little or a high potential negative effect on the environment as well as lives around the quarry site. As a measure to mitigate the adverse effects of quarrying, most countries are embracing rules to restrain the adverse impact of quarrying activities

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Jul 04, 2015 Stone quarrying and livelihood transformation in peri urban by Alexander Decker - issuu. Research on Humanities and Social Sciences ISSN (Paper)2224-5766

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Connemara Granite Building Stone offer a unique Irish Granite Stone from our Joe Larkin Quarry in Shannapheasteen, Connemara Co Galway Ireland. If you want to order Connemara Granite Building Stone for a special project, your home or garden Call Stephen on 0879059113 or email [email protected] for advice, support or to price

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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 change,change

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However, there are challenges stand in the way, first over the past few years; stone quarrying in Dire Dawa has led to environmental degradation and second, overexploitation of the resources and poor methods of technology in quarrying has left the landscape rugged and leaving a lot to desire.The magnitude of the problems can be explained in terms of social conflict, vulnerability of soil to water

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