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Mining Industry has rapidly deteriorated quality of the natural wealth called as resources. These industries are getting centers of the pollution sources; we need timely actions and various mitigative measures so that natural resources can be confined. To assess the impact on air one of the marble mine was selected in Tehsil- Kotputli, District-Jaipur. Ambient air quality monitoring was conducted in summer seasons 2013 & 2014 for 8 locations in the core & buffer zone of the project site for parameters like PM10, PM2.5, SOx, NOx. The data on pollutants concentrations were processed for different statistical parameters like arithmetic mean, minimum & maximum concentration and various percentiles values. The monitoring results shows that all the parameters studied were within the permissible limit except PM10. PM10 for all the 8 Stations were found between 107.1 + 5.79 to 140.4 + 5.58 in Summer Season 2013 and 102.5 + 2.60 to 135.1+5.44 in Summer Season 2014 respectively. The minimum concentration was recorded in the mine site 107.1 + 5.79 & 104.3 + 5.31 in 2013 & 2014 and maximum in Village Dantil 139.2 + 5.59 & 134.6 + 5.38 and Village Dandha 140.4 + 5.58 & 135.1 + 5.44 in 2013 & 2014. We concluded that in Summer Season 2013 the production of dust occurs from many operations in the mining like quarrying and by processing viz. drilling or blasting from deposit beds, loading and transportation, crushing of stones, etc. So, the air pollutants are on maximum side. But in 2014 results are reduced with the comparison to the Summer Season 2013 because when the mine digs deeper the most of the air pollutant concentration were encircled in the mine.