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. 2024 May 22;10(11):e31086. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31086

Table 2.

PM10 dust (2013:2019) average reading Results-SGM site.

ID/No. Location Name PM10
Results
EEL4/94
Limits
AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT (Time exposure 24 h)
#1 Main Road 85 >150 μg/m3(High)
<150 μg/m3(Low)
#3 Camp Area 93
Work Environment (Time Exposure 8 Hrs.)
#2 Security Office 1.26 >3 mg/m3(High)

<3 mg/m3(Low)
#4 Batch Plant Area 0.58
#5 LV Workshop 0.77
#6 Warehouse 0.85
#7 Clinic 0.09
#8 New Admin Office 0.08
#9 Mining Check Point 0.98
#10 Drill Pattern 1.51
#11 Digging Face 0.59
#12 Blast Pattern 0.39
#13 Room Pad 0.25
#14 Waste Dump-Grade Control Area 0.37
#15 Waste Dump-Pit Containers Offices 0.47
#16 Underground Area 1(740 Access) 4.6
#17 Underground Area 2 (Tagboard 770) 3.8
#18 Underground Area 3 3.6
#19 Mobile Maintenance Workshop 0.4
#20 Area In front of the power plant 0.37
#21 Power Generators House 0.99
#22 Power station stacks Area 0.99
#23 Power Plant Office 0.89
#24 Inside Laboratory (Sample Preparation) 4.2
#25 Outside laboratory 1.98
#26 Carbon Regeneration area 0.45
#27 Air Compressor Area 0.86
#28 Plant Workshops 0.99
#29 Mills Area 0.37
#30 Cyanide Area 0.20
#31 Floatation Tank Area 0.27
#32 Gold Room 0.99
#33 Carbon Leaching Tank Area 1 0.12
#34 Carbon Leaching Tank Area 2 0.18
#35 At Regrind Area 0.89
#36 At Lime Area 1.10
#37 Plant Control room 0.20
#38 Crusher Control Room 0.25
#39 Process and Mining Office 0.35