• The curse of coal

    Earlier, this area was a pond, and villagers from Ghanudi area in Jharia used the water for their daily activities. However, the pond has turned into a dumping ground for a coal mining company. They dump stones, burned coal from underground fires, and other wastes from coal mines here. Extreme dust has filled the air, causing lung diseases. Photo: Supratim Bhattacharjee . Nasir (19) is a coal ...

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  • International Journal of Remote Sensing Geoscience ...

    mine areas about open cast mining areas within Jharia Coal Field. When compared with the topographical change areas, it is exhibited that the areas taken out by this technique are matching the areas of open cast mines with 89% confidence level. And thus the results obtained were in concurrence with existing map. Surender Singh Chauhan (2010) has conducted a case study of Bijolia mining area .

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  • Landuse mapping and change detection in a coal mining ...

     · In an area like the Jharia coalfield (JCF), where extensive and rapid underground and opencast mining is going on continuously, landuse studies are of paramount importance. This paper discusses the remote sensingGIS techniques used for identifiion of various landuse classes on satellite imagery and enhanced products and identifiion of timesequential changes in landuse .

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  • Qualitative Assessment of Mine Water of the Western Jharia ...

    The study area lies in the Western part of the Jharia coalfield and is bounded within the latitude 23º42´ N and 23º49´ N and longitude 86º08´E and 86º19´E (Figure 1). The Jharia coalfield stretches from west to east in the shape of sickle. The Jharia coalfield (JCF) is India's largest and most extensively developed coalfield, and has been mined for more than a century. It is India ...

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  • Mine reclamation planning of Jharia area (Bastacola ...

    and underground mining methods. The present area of the eastern Jharia loed on the out skirts of the district is a region loed on the latitude of and The DEM of the area on the USGS explorer belonged to the path 140 and row 44. Figure 1 Shape file superimposed on the DEM of the study area Source: ()

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  • The Coal Fires of Jharia | Amusing Planet

     · Conventionally after open cast mining, areas are refilled with sand and water so that the land can be cultivated again. This has never happened in Jharia, which lead to the coal seams coming into contact with oxygen and ching fire. Once a coal seam ches fire, and efforts to stop it an early stage fail, it may continue to burn for tens to hundreds of years, depending primarily on the ...

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  • Isabell Zipfel

     · The opencast mining areas are densely populated. 40% of Jharia's inhabitants live in the burning, fire spewing countryside. The ground is subsiding, houses are collapsing. In addition, the smoke and vapours contain poisons, amongst others carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, but also soot, methane and arsenic. The damage to health is enormous. Lung and skin diseases, cancer ...

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  • The DhanbadJharia coalmining area

    The DhanbadJharia area forms part of a mineral rich corridor, most of India's reserves in coal, copper, iron ore and uranium are loed in the DurgapurDhanbadBokaroJamshedpur triangle. Industrial coal mining started in the second half of the 19th century, subsequently both steel manufacturing and power generation came up in the region. Bokaro is known as India's steel city, loion ...

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  • Ambient Air Quality Assessment with Particular Reference ...

    Jharia Coalfield is the critically polluted area with the intense mining and associated industrial activities. There has been widespread concern of particulate pollution with the alarming levels of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) and Respirable Particulate Matter (PM10 ). Coke oven plants, coal washing, thermal power stations and associated activities coupled with the transportation ...

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  • Phytosociology and Floristic composition of mining area of ...

    degraded land areas of Lodna coal mines, Jharia (Jharkhand) was studied. The results revealed that the mining severely alter the ecology of coalfield and it is vividly express in vegetation pattern as well as phytosociology. Dichanthium annulatum was the dominating species in control area station 5 having very high important value index Because of this reason the vegetation type is ...

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  • Jharia Coalfield Fire, India | EJAtlas

    The Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand is an exclusive storehouse of prime coke coal in India. The Jharia mines were opened for coal mining in 1896. The underground fire was detected for the first time in 1916. It started spreading during the 1970s [1]. At present, more than 70 mine fires are reported from this region. Since then, underground fires in Jharia coal field have caused deaths and ...

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  • Fire on Earth—The Coalfields of Jharia

     · The opencast mining areas are densely populated. Forty percent of Jharia's inhabitants live in the burning, fire spewing countryside. The ground is subsiding, houses are collapsing. In addition, the smoke and vapours contain poisons, amongst others carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, but also soot, methane and arsenic. The damage to health is enormous. Lung and skin ...

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  • Detecting, mapping and monitoring of land subsidence in ...

    Keywords. Land subsidence; coal mining area; spaceborne DInSAR; GPS observation; precision levelling; net displacement; Jharia Coalfield; India. J. Earth Syst. Sci. 124, No. 6, August 2015, pp. c Indian Academy of Sciences 1359. 1360 RSChatterjeeetal. This is one of the most important and oldest coalfields in the country. This is the only source of prime coking coal in India with a ...

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  • (PDF) Assessment of human health risks from heavy metals ...

    Besides mining, Jharia town also experiences communities typical of coal mining areas, the level of heavy traffic due to surface transport of coal. The exposure is usually higher for children than adults domestic use of coal for cooking is a common practice because of pica and other play behaviours. in almost all the s of Jharia, where the coal is Thus, elemental composition in dust ...

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  • Work Related Stress among Coal Mine workers: A study on ...

    The DhanbadJharia coalmining area Dhanbad is a city in the state of Jharkhand, and is also known as the 'Coal Capital of India' .The DhanbadJharia area forms part of a mineral rich corridor, most of India's reserves in coal, copper, iron ore and uranium are loed in the DurgapurDhanbadBokaroJamshedpur triangle. The Dhanbad Jharia coal fields form part of this heavy industrial ...

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  • DETECTION AND DELINEATION OF SUBSURFACE COAL MINE FIRE ...

    in the administrative blocks of Baghmara, Dhanbad, Jharia and very less area in parts of Baliapur. This area is loed between latitude 23°35'N to 23°55'N and longitude 86°05'E to 86°30'E. The coal field is spread over an area of 450 km2 approximately. The loion of JCF is shown in Fig. 1. Figure 1. Loion of Study Area

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  • jharkhand coal field mines area of jharia

    The DhanbadJharia coalmining area. Dhanbad coal fields are situated in the state of Jharkhand in the East of India, neighbouring West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The DhanbadJharia area forms part of a mineral rich corridor, most of India's reserves in coal, copper, iron ore and uranium are loed in the . Get Price; Jharia Coal Field Email . The Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand is the biggest ...

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  • Environment and Geology: IMPACT OF MINING IN JHARKHAND ...

    The working of Jharia, Bokaro and Karanpura coalfields started in the 1856. The opening of coal mining in Dhanbad area during the second half of the 19th century and the establishment of the Tata Iron and Steel company in Jamshedpur in Singhbhum district in 1907 marked the beginning of the large scale exploitation of mineral and other industrial resources in this area. Results and discussion ...

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  • jharkhand coal field mines area of jharia

    The DhanbadJharia coalmining area Jul 31, 2011 · Dhanbad coal fields are situated in the state of Jharkhand in the East of India, neighbouring West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The DhanbadJharia area forms part of a mineral rich corridor, most of India's reserves in coal, copper, iron ore and uranium are loed in the DurgapurDhanbadBokaroJamshedpur triangle.

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  • Cost of life in Jharia – Hakbong Kwon

     · Jharia is the largest openpit coal mining area in North East India. There are numerous large corporations operating here. High quality bituminous coals are extracted to feed the demand for power in India as well as the global steel industry. It is already over 100 years old. The Indian ethnic minority who originally lived here have now lost all their homes. This is the impact from the mining ...

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  • Land Subsidence In Jharia Coalfields, Jharkhand, India ...

    Jharia coalfields, Jharkhand are the oldest and one of the largest coalfields in India. Due to poor management of the coal mines in the past, land subsidence due to coal fires has become a common phenomenon in Jharia. Throughout the year, several factors such as coal fires, seepage of rainwater into mines, and illegal settlements above the abandoned mines contribute to the mininginduced ...

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  • Exposure to Particulate Matter in Different Regions along ...

     · Occupational particulate matter (PM) concentrations were measured during November 2014 along a road network in the mining and nonmining areas at Jharia coalfield, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The monitoring was conducted for a week in the peak time using a portable GRIMM (model ) aerosol spectrometer. Measured PM was designated as inhalable, thoracic and alveolic particles for .

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  • Assessing the environmental impacts of coal mining using ...

    JCF has a long history of mining, which started towards the end of the 19th century. The activity got intensified in Jharia in 1920's and thereafter it has been growing extensively and exponentially. Like any large coal mining area, JCF has also undergone a seachange affecting the environment and therefore several EIA studies have been ...

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  • Exposure to particulate matter in different regions along ...

    Occupational particulate matter (PM) concentrations were measured during November 2014 along a road network in the mining and nonmining areas at Jharia coalfield, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The monitoring was conducted for a week in the peak time using a portable GRIMM (model ) aerosol spectrometer. Measured PM was designated as inhalable, thoracic and alveolic particles for .

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