Meghalaya possesses 9% of the country total limestone reserves. Of which, East Jaintia Hills district has the maximum deposits. Limestone rock mining in the district started about a …
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In this paper we have reviewed the status of limestone mining and its environmental implications in Meghalaya, India. Results on impact of limestone mining on quality of water, soil and air, …
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Meghalaya possesses 9% of the country total limestone reserves. Of which, East Jaintia Hills district has the maximum deposits. Limestone rock mining in the district started about a decade ago to ...
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The approval by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to Star Cement, one of the largest cement manufacturing firms in Northeast India, for the expansion of limestone mining in 42.051 hectares of land in Brishyrnot village in East Jaintia Hills has sparked significant controversy in the state.
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The key objective of the Project is mining of cement grade limestone as a major raw material to the company's upcoming cement plant in the region. 2.2 Brief description of nature of the project The proposed project is a 2.0 MTPA Limestone Mining Project over 19 Ha area. The mining of Limestone shall be by Open Cast Mining method using drilling
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Though the hugely lucrative coal mining industry has been banned since April 2014, the Government of Meghalaya has given 16 leases to mine limestone reserves in the state. 68 percent of the limestone mined is used by cement industries and the …
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a superior tool use for assessing environmental changes in the opencast limestone mining region. In mining and its development, there is currently pervasive global concern focused on the need to move the ... Limestone mining in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India is being carried out extensively for the ...
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Limestone production in the Jaintia and Khasi hill regions of Meghalaya between 2008 and 2015 totaled c. 38 MT (Government of Meghalaya: Department of Mining and Geology, 2022). ...
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Limestone mining in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India is being carried out extensively for the production of cement. Extraction of limestone is done mainly by adopting opencast method of mining.
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In pictures: Meghalaya, blessed by nature's bounty, has been at the receiving end of greed for the resources that lie beneath its land, with uncontrolled coal mining and illegal limestone mining
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The state of Meghalaya is blessed with rich limestone resources accounted for about 9% of the country's total limestone reserves. It is also the most abundantly found and extracted mineral …
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In this study, we assessed the changes in the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil samples collected from the artisanal and small-scale limestone mining site in Sohra …
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In this paper, we have reviewed the status of limestone mining and its environmental implications in Meghalaya, India. Results on impact of limestone mining on quality of water, soil and air,...
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The Directorate of Mineral Resources (DMR) under the administrative control of the Department of Mining & Geology with its Headquarter at Shillong has 2(two) Divisional Mining Offices(DMO), at Jowai and Williamnagar, and 15(fifteen) other checkgates located on different strategic routes in …
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In this paper we report the impact of limestone mining on the water quality of the area. a starts from Nongsning village to Lumshnong along the NH.44 decade ago to meet the requirements …
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Meghalaya, a small state in north eastern region of India is abundantly blessed with coal and limestone. About 9% of the country's total limestone reserves are distributed in the state.
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D.M.R., Meghalaya, indicated a resource of 291.21 million tonnes for Lower and Middle Sylhet Limestone covering an area of 2.50 sq.km., out of which 154 million tonnes of Limestone was …
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3 Mynkree M2 Limestone mining 25°13'51.56'N 92°22'28.50'E 4 Wahiajer-Narpuh M3 Limestone mining 25°12'0.69'N 92°22'57.26'E 5 Lumshnong M4 Limestone mining 25°9'53.67'N 92°23'12.54'E Table 2: The values of various parameters in soil samples collected from limestone mining sites of Meghalaya.
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Meghalaya High Court has directed the state government to ascertain whether the license issued for mining of limestone as a minor mineral is being misused to export the mineral. The HC observed that a license for mining limestone as a minor mineral may only be issued if the end use of the product is as a building material.
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SHILLONG, Nov 15: The High Court of Meghalaya has scheduled the final hearing relating to limestone mining on November 21 with a request to the Deputy Solicitor General of India to appear. The state had filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court against a September 7 order that said a minor mineral license cannot be obtained when ...
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18 rowsThe State of Meghalaya is endowed with large deposits of a number of valuable minerals such as coal, limestone, kaolin, clay, granite, glass-sand and uranium. The table …
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In Meghalaya, limestone mining activities and cement plant industries has been the key reasons of elevated levels of pH, increase concentration of calcium and phosphate, total dissolved...
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Lamare & Singh (2016) found that limestone mining in Meghalaya had several environmental impacts on the community. The most visible environmental implications are the pollution of land, water and ...
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