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Please note that this session was withdrawn and is no longer available in the respective programme. This withdrawal might have been the result of a merge with another session.

ERE3.2

Dust from mineral extraction: impacts, monitoring and mitigation
Convener: Brian Marker 

Dust from minerals operations causes strong public objections to new operations but also has impacts on other economic activities and, sometimes, on health. Various regulatory regimes contribute to the control of dust and its impacts but these are only fully effective if there is sound baseline and operational monitoring information and good modelling of dust dispersion. This session will review impacts of dust emissions from mineral workings and examine the “state of the art” for control, monitoring and modelling of these emissions.