Mining can become more sustainable by developing and integrating economic, environmental, and social components. Among the mining industries, coal mining requires paying a serious attention to the aspects of sustainable development. Therefore, in this work, we investigate the impacting factors involved in the sustainable development of underground coal mining from the structural viewpoint. For ...

One of the most important issues related to knowledge discovery is the field of comment mining. Opinion mining is a tool through which the opinions of people who comment about a specific issue can be evaluated in order to achieve some interesting results. This is a subset of data mining. Opinion mining can be improved using the data mining algorithms. One of the important parts of opinion minin...

The magnitude of trafficking in persons in Tanzania is unknown. Consequently, available information on health risks of persons trafficked for different forms of exploitation is extremely scanty. We conducted a baseline study in eight administrative regions of Tanzania using both qualitative and quantitative methods to generate data on the health conditions of trafficked persons to inform traffi...

BACKGROUND The paper presents the incidence of occupational diseases in Poland (2013). MATERIAL AND METHODS Occupational disease reporting forms, supplied to the Central Register of Occupational Diseases, were used as the study material. The incidence was specified in terms of rates per 100 000 employed people. RESULTS The number of new cases was 2214 with the incidence rate of 15.6. The do...

Excessive demand for stones due to rapid infrastructure development led uncontrolled stone quarrying in Mitrapur panchayat of Balasore district causing serious environmental degradation and socio-economic conflict. A large numbers tribal people this area are dependent on activities carrying their livelihood. Methodology include field observation, photo documentation interview local through a pr...

The unquenchable demand for rock materials has attracted many companies within the building and construction sector to invest in stone quarrying. However, this brought about environmental impacts with health threats people. There is a paucity of information magnitude pollution on air water how it varies quarry sites. This study, therefore, investigated physical quarrying explored in-situ mitiga...

Sustainability assessment has received numerous attentions in the mining industry. Mining sustainability includes the environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and a sustainable development is achieved when all these dimensions improve in a balanced manner. Therefore, to measure the sustainability score of a mine, we require an approach that evaluates all these three dimensions of mining ...