ArticleEnvironmental geochemistry and health2015
Atmospheric particulate matter in proximity to mountaintop coal mines: sources and potential environmental and human health impacts.
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- Systematic review of community health impacts of mountaintop removal mining.Environment international · 2017Pooled it
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- Maternal proximity to mountain-top removal mining and birth defects in Appalachian Kentucky, 1997-2003.PloS one · 2022Article
- Development overview of paste backfill technology in China's coal mines: a review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Review
- The control effect of 3D spiral wind-curtain generator on respirable dust pollution during tunnelling process.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Maternal proximity to Central Appalachia surface mining and birth outcomes.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021Article
- Air Pollution Emissions 2008-2018 from Australian Coal Mining: Implications for Public and Occupational Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Personal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Appalachian mining communities.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2020Article
- Suppression of coal dust by microbially induced carbonate precipitation usingStaphylococcus succinus.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Article
- Increased Dementia Mortality in West Virginia Counties with Mountaintop Removal Mining?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Cardiac and mitochondrial dysfunction following acute pulmonary exposure to mountaintop removal mining particulate matter.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Mountaintop removal mining (MTM) is a widely used approach to surface coal mining in the US Appalachian region whereby large volumes of coal overburden are excavated using explosives, removed, and transferred to nearby drainages below MTM operations. To investigate the air quality impact of MTM, the geochemical characteristics of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) from five surface mining sites in south central West Virginia, USA, and five in-state study control sites having only underground coal mining or no coal mining whatsoever were determined and compared. Epidemiologic studies show increased rates of cancer, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality in Appalachian surface mining areas compared to Appalachian non-mining areas. In the present study, 24-h coarse (>2.5 µm) and fine (≤2.5 µm) PM samples were collected from two surface mining sites in June 2011 showed pronounced enrichment in elements having a crustal affinity (Ga, Al, Ge, Rb, La, Ce) contributed by local sources, relative to controls. Follow-up sampling in August 2011 lacked this enrichment, suggesting that PM input from local sources is intermittent. Using passive samplers, dry deposition total PM elemental fluxes calculated for three surface mining sites over multi-day intervals between May and August 2012 were 5.8 ± 1.5 times higher for crustal elements than at controls. Scanning microscopy of 2,249 particles showed that primary aluminosilicate PM was prevalent at surface mining sites compared to secondary PM at controls. Additional testing is needed to establish any link between input of lithogenic PM and disease rates in the study area.
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