Mining Impacts · impact
Dust and particulates
Air · During operation
- Mitigation
- Watering and sealing haul roads, enclosing crushers and conveyors, wind fences, and revegetating or wetting exposed tailings beaches.
- Category
- Air
- Timescale
- During operation
Mechanism
Blasting, haulage on unsealed roads, crushing and dry tailings surfaces all put particulate into the air. Beyond the respiratory load it carries whatever the ore carries — lead, arsenic, cadmium — onto soil, roofs and gardens downwind.
Where
Open pitQuarryHeap leach
Open on the Mining Impacts shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.