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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides an important source of livelihood for rural communities throughout the world. These activities are frequently accompanied by extensive environmental ...

The Extractive Industries and Society is the one journal devoted to disseminating in-depth analysis of the socio-economic and environmental impacts of mining and oil and gas production on societies, both past and present. It provides a platform for the exchange of ideas on a wide range of issues and debates on the extractive industries and development, bringing together research undertaken by ...

Artisanal mining in South Africa probably has a long history, but this has not been documented. For Zimbabwe, Roger Summers has mapped extensive pre-colonial mines, prospecting trenches, and early processing sites, but this has so far not been done for South Africa. Violence is a constant problem in the artisanal mining sector.

Despite increased attention to research on mining and gender, systematic analyses of the links between mining, conflict, and sexual violence are scarce. This paper contributes to filling this gap by exploring how artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and sexual violence are related in Eastern DRC.

The Dodd Frank Act was passed by the US Congress in July 2010 and included a provision—Section 1502—that aimed to break the link between conflict and minerals in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. To date there is only one rigorous quantitative analysis that investigates the impact of Dodd-Frank on local conflict events. Looking at the short-term impact (2011–2012), it finds that ...

Blacksmith Institute Journal of Health & Pollution . Vol. 2, No. 3 — June 2012. 6. Emerging Issue. ASGM. Artisanal and small-scale . SSM. gold miners Small-scale miners Some SSM communities continue to practice the same method of gold extraction developed by their forefathers, whereas other groups are innovative and try to improve

Large-scale mining has become the cornerstone of Mongolia's development and poverty reduction narrative. Building on political economy insights, this paper explores the politics of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the competing context of the fast-pace development of large-scale mining .

An estimated 40 million people, slightly more than the entire population of England when Orwell wrote The Road to Wigan Pier, currently work in artisanal and small-scale mining. For comparison, large-scale industrial mining operations employ roughly 7 million people. Small-scale mining goes on in at least 80 countries around the world.

The Problem The goal is to reduce occupational health and environmental hazards of artisanal (small-scale) gold mining communities in northern Guinea. The total population of the area covered by the project is estimated at 150,000 of which over 40,000 people are involved every year in gold mining .

Urban artisanal gold mining (UAGM) in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been run by a number of urban gold workers with gold jewelry manufacture as its core activity. The wastes generated from goldsmiths' activities were further processed by the gold smelters to recover fine gold particles. Smelting gold doré, amalgamation, and burning out the amalgam were the mercury-based gold ...

ARtiSANAL AND SMALL-SC ALE MiNiNg AND A gRiCuLtuRE | EXPLORING TH EIR LINKS IN RURAL SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 4 In sub-Saharan Africa, a region long scarred by poverty, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is widespread. Most of this activity, however, is unregulated and informal. Yet, ASM has rapidly become one of the most

Jan 24, 2017· The research team recommended better education of the risks of artisanal and small-scale gold mining, as well as simple controls to reduce exposure. Pavilonis B, Grassman J, Johnson G, Diaz Y, Caravanos J. Characterization and risk of exposure to elements from artisanal gold mining operations in the Bolivian Andes.

Artisanal mining operations have exacerbated the environmental problems and public safety and health threats. By their very nature, artisanal gold mining operations in the Sutherland goldfield expose a large number of people, most of whom are women and children, to the safety hazards of the abandoned mines.

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), broadly defined as informal mining using rudimentary processes to extract minerals or gems, often with no or very little mechanization, occurs in many developing countries throughout the world. While an estimated 20–30 million people worldwide work in .

Dec 01, 2000· AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. ..., Adriana Flachier, Göran Fredriksson, Stuart Lane, Bo Lundberg, and Olof Sangfors "Environmental Impact of Small-scale and Artisanal Gold Mining in Southern Ecuador," AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 29(8), 484-491, (1 December 2000).

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol 3 No 7 November2014 74 Impacts of Artisanal Mining on Some Heavy Metals Concentration in Surface Water in Kutcheri, Zamfara State North-Western Nigeria Rasheed A Ishola Department of Chemistry, Federal University Lokoja. Lokoja, Kogi State Nigeria Amuda Abdulgafar K.

Small-scale and artisanal miners produced more gold than large-scale companies in Zimbabwe in recent months. Proposed changes to the nation's mining laws to recognize and support smaller operations could boost production even more, small-scale miners and their advocates say.

Journal; Contact; Book an appointment. 21.03.2017 Industrial vs. Artisanal Mining. SHARE. As you may have guessed from the mining articles up to this point, diamond mining means many different things to many different people. There is more than one way to get a raw diamond out of the earth – and different diamonds require different methods.

Ethiopia is one of the countries that are making efforts to formalize the ASM (artisanal gold mining) sector by licensing individual miners, providing technical support for capacity building, and setting up basic infrastructure and facilitating formalized marketing of gold. The study area was in hectare where most the active mining and ecological land use and land cover were revealed.

Aug 01, 2010· A series of murders of albinos in Tanzania's north-west mining frontier has been shrouded in a discourse of primitivism by the international and national press, sidestepping the significance of the contextual circumstances of an artisanal mining boom firmly embedded in a global commodity chain and local profit maximisation.

Artisanal Gold Mining: A Dangerous Pollution Problem by Blacksmith Institute Mercury attacks the central nervous system, affects brain functioning and, in extreme cases, exposure will lead to death. Despite being commonly overlooked, industrial pollution still poses a significant threat to human health, particularly in the case of artisanal gold mining.

The dramatic rise of artisanal mining poses significant social, environmental and economic questions. ... Online access to Mining-Journal with dedicated coverage across all key mining sectors;

While the rural development consequences of Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme have been heavily debated, there is a dearth of literature focusing on the post-land reform inter-relations between artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and farming. This article discusses the growing ...

Dec 16, 2013· Zimbabwe's post-2000 period has been characterised by a dramatic increase in artisanal small-scale mining (ASM), particularly gold mining. Economic decline and rising unemployment meant that ASM provided one of the very few opportunities for .
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