The Human Impacts Database
A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.Mass of overburden moved for mining of coal
LandMiningThis quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2015) is reported.
Value: |
≈ 6.5 × 1013 kg / yr
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This is equivalent to... ≈ 65 Gt / yr |
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HuID: | 72899 | |
Relevant Year(s): | 2015 | |
Summary: | The mass of overburden and waste sediment moved from global mining of coal. | |
Method: | This value was calculated given commodity-level stripping ratios (mass of overburden/waste per mass of coal resource mined) and reported values of global coal production by type. | |
Source: | Cooper, A. H., Brown, T. J., Price, S. J., Ford, J. R., Waters, C. N. Humans are the most significant global geomorphological driving force of the 21st century. The Anthropocene Review (2018) | |
Dataset: |
Mass of sediment produced by category over 1925 — 2015 (Cooper2018_table1_sediment_mass.csv)
global resolution
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Original Data License: | © The Authors | |
Added By: | gchure |