2. Methods. This cross-sectional study took place in Lubumbashi in October 2014 (dry season). Potential participants were recruited by convenience sampling at their place of work over a period of 6 days, during which 48 men working as artisanal stone-crushers and 50 men working as drivers of collective minibus taxis were included.

Primary, secondary, and tertiary crushing are three stages in the comminution process that break down large rocks into smaller pieces of varying sizes. Each stage uses different types of crushers and has distinct advantages and disadvantages. This article provides a comprehensive guide to primary, secondary, and tertiary crushing.

The scope of the presented paper investigates an impact of the crusher device operation on the production of the fine aggregates. A practical tool for control (model) was …

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We conducted a cross-sectional study of 48 male artisanal stone-crushers and 50 male taxi-drivers using a standardised questionnaire and spirometry. Concentrations of trace …

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Social- Economic Assessment and Profitability of Artisanal Gold Miners in Niger State, Nigeria. ... Assessment of the Operations of Stone Crushers in Artisanal and Small Scale Granite Quarries.

Estimation of the respective productivities of men and women stone crushers in Artisanal and Small Scale Granite Quarries was carried out by collecting data from …

Mobile crushers are used in a wide range of industries, including quarrying, ore processing and recycling of demolition waste. This guidance is for all those with responsibilities for the operation of mobile crushers, including contract managers, supervisory staff and operators of these machines. It covers the safe operation of the mobile ...

Site Safety and Safer Aggregate Crushing Operations. 11 September, 2019. First published in the September 2019 issue of Quarry Management as Safe and Sound. McLanahan discuss the key priorities …

The prevalence of occupational injuries among blue-collar workers is higher in the stone-crushing industries due to high-risk and iterant nature of the work. …

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It is hard to characterize a general type of artisanal miner's family. In some regions artisanal mining is a secondary source of income for farmers, but in parts of the globe, artisanal mining is the main subsistence activity. Artisanal gold miners are typically poor, hard working, illiterate, with little or no formal

Background: Thousands of artisanal workers are exposed to mineral dusts from various origins in the African Copperbelt. We determined the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function, …

screeni ng deck to secondar y crusher s, and i s then r eturned to the pr imary screeni ng deck to be separated into desired products. A crushed stone plant contains a series of screening decks, crushers, and final rinse screening stations. Finished product travels through a final rinse stage, and is then stored in silos, bins, or stockpiles.

Environmental health assessment of stone crushers 109 residents in the nearby villages was collected with the help of a questionnaire. A total of 300 people in the age group of 20-45

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STONE CRUSHER AT OVIKOKOLA VILLAGE: RUACANA CONSTITUENCY - OMUSATI REGION – NAMIBIA: MINING CLAIMS 71427 – 71430. FOR M. SHIKONGO'S INVESTMENTS GROUP ONE (PTY) LTD PREPARED BY Office Number 11 …

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is primitive with health problems determined by occupational, environmental, and social …

reduce particle sizes. In rock crushing operations, rock is loosened by drilling and blasting and then loaded by front-end loader or power shovel into large haul trucks that transport the material to the processingoperations. Processing operations may include: crushing, screening, size classification, material handling and storage …

An analysis of the results shows that the productivities of men and women stone crushers are 1.1 and 0.6 tonnes per day. Based on these results, a rating scale of output and …

Consequential findings and outcomes of experiments and fabrication work of stone crushers in recent years are deeply reviewed with the objective of finding out …

We determined the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function, and urinary metals among artisanal stone …

Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, tin, lithium, rare earth elements, tantalum, and cobalt, and any other usable commodity, for …

The spike in unemployment and elevated levels of poverty have given rise to stone crushing as a profession. Artisanal stone crushing is a thriving economic activity especially in peri-urban areas ...

artisanal stone-crushers, with characterization of their metal exposure by urinary biomonitoring. Nevertheless, we also acknowledge several limitations. A first limitation is the cross-sectional ...

The critical role of artisanal miners (ASM) in Zimbabwe today. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) defines artisanal mining as: "formal or informal mining operations with predominantly simplified forms of exploration, extraction, processing, and transportation. ASM is normally low capital intensive and uses ...

Left panel: An artisanal stone-crusher and a transporter of ston es working in precarious conditions. Right panel: General view of the site where stone s are m a nua lly extracted and the n

Downloadable! Background: Thousands of artisanal workers are exposed to mineral dusts from various origins in the African Copperbelt. We determined the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function, and urinary metals among artisanal stone-crushers in Lubumbashi. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 48 male artisanal …

Some of the key features of the guidelines are: The stone crushers should obtain consent to establish and consent to operate (CTO) from the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) before starting their operations. Stone crushing unit shall comply with emission norms prescribed under the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 and …

A cluster of 50 stone Crushing units located at Pammal, in Suburban Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu State, India, is a Source of high levels of dust generation in the vicinity of the crushers ...