scholarly journals ‘Old Trees Cannot Be Replanted’:When Energy Investment Meets Farmers’ Resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol SI (8) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Iwona MARKUSZEWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Mining Operation ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Energy Investment ◽  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
Attachment To Place ◽  
Old Trees ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Rural Dwellers ◽  
Open Cast

Open-cast lignite mining often arouses discontent due to its controversial use of land. This is particularly apparent when a mining operation interferes with well-managed agricultural areas. Mining investments usually face resistance from farmers who are attached to a rural setting and farmland. This paper summarises the results of a study on farmers’ attachment to place and patrimony. The placeoriented research was conducted among a traditionally farming-oriented community that expressed its disapproval of a lignite coal operation. Data were collected via questionnaire. The measurement of place attachment used a five-point Likert scale. The survey was distributed among the rural dwellers of two communes, Krobia and Miejska Górka (in the Wielkopolska Region, Poland), which will be affected by open-cast mining and a power station; both are dependent on the “Oczkowice” lignite deposit. The results show that the farmers have a deep attachment to their farmland; however, only a little attachment was detected to the local community.

scholarly journals Investigating The Effects of Rainy Season On Open Cast Mining Operation: The Case of Wescoal Khanyisa Colliery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mashudu Tlhatlhetji ◽  
Peter Kolapo
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
Mining Operation ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Coal Extraction ◽  
Pumping Rate ◽  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
Water Pumping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Open Cast

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of rainy season in open cast mining and possible factors that could contribute to production loses during these rainy periods. The major issue at Wescoal’s Khanyisa Colliery is the impact that rainfall has on the coal extraction process during the rainy season. The opencast mine operation loses a significant amount of time that is supposed to be used to run the mining value chain by trying to deal with the effects of the rainfall. This study made use of acquired data from Khanyisa Colliery between the period of December 2019 and January 2020 rainy months in South Africa. This data includes, the amount of daily and weekly rainfall, the water pumping rate, frequency of breakdowns and success rate of load and haul. The average weekly rainfall was found to be 69 mm over the 8 weeks of the summer season. However, the adopted method of managing the mine water was not efficient enough as a result of a low capacity pump and their pumping rate in comparison to the volume of water in the pit. This has affected some sections in the mine as productivity dropped due to reduction in loading and hauling activities from the pit to the stockpiles. In order to improve the productivity, the authors made some suggestions than can enhance production during rainy seasons.

scholarly journals Problems of Anthropogenic Influences upon the Landscape in North Bohemia

Geografie ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Galina Kruglová ◽  
Jan Vaněk
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Coal Preparation ◽  
Anthropogenic Influences ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
The North ◽  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Open Cast

The paper treats of harmful influences of the industrial sprawl, of ecological processes and phenomena interfering with socio-economic functions of the North Bohemian landscape. Great attention has been paid to special ecological problems related to open-cast mining, brown-coal preparation, uranium-ore mining, development of power stations, chemistry, land other industrial branches. According to the degree of anthropogenic influences owing to complex multi-line land use and conforming with ecological aspects, three types of regions have defined in the North Bohemian region.

scholarly journals Calculation of Parameters and Design of the Movable Transfer Station with Vibrating Screen Feeder for the Conveyor System of Deep Queries

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.23) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Aleksander Sładkowski ◽  
Arkadiy Yudin ◽  
Anatoliy Komissarov ◽  
Yuliya Lagunova ◽  
Madinur Akhmetova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oscillatory System ◽  
Mining Machine ◽  
Conveyor System ◽  
Vibrating Screen ◽  
Calculation Of Parameters ◽  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
Transfer Station ◽  
Continuous Technology ◽  
Open Cast ◽  
Vibrating Feeder

The paper considers a new design of the movable vibrating screen feeder KVG-1PS designed for the reception and transfer of rocks and ores in conveyor complexes of cyclic-and-continuous technology in open-cast mining. It contains the results of design analysis of the new mining machine. The paper represents the technique of establishing the main parameters and the calculation of the movable vibrating feeder on the basis of a cascade shock-absorbing system at the representation of the machine within a three-mass oscillatory system. 

scholarly journals Asthma and open cast mining: Authors' reply

BMJ ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 305 (6858) ◽  
pp. 888-889
Author(s):  
J M F Temple ◽  
A M Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
Open Cast

System of ore preparation in open cast mining

1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-222
Author(s):  
Yu. N. Ermolin
Keyword(s):  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
Ore Preparation ◽  
Open Cast
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