The Clinical Importance of the Mercury Problem in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Artisanal small-scale mining is widely operated in various countries serving as a livelihood to many rural communities. However, it is a significant source of environmental mercury contamination which affects human health.
Justice Afrifa +6 more
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Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining-A Narrative Literature Review. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Indonesia is host to a long history of gold mining and is responsible for a significant contribution to world gold production. This is true not only with regard to large gold mining companies but also to small-scale mining groups comprised of people and enterprises that participate in the gold industry of Indonesia.
Meutia AA, Lumowa R, Sakakibara M.
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An Integrated Assessment Approach to Address Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2015 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is growing in many regions of the world including Ghana. The problems in these communities are complex and multi-faceted. To help increase understanding of such problems, and to enable consensus-building and effective translation of scientific findings to stakeholders, help inform policies, and ultimately ...
Basu, Niladri +2 more
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International Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in Colombia [PDF]
Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, 2019 This paper describes key aspects of our experience with international interdisciplinary collaboration. Two Colombian engineers and an American interdisciplinary researcher comprised our team.
Mateo S. Pimentel +2 more
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NKOTA WATA: Mining and metaphor in Hamtai-Anga "Gold Dreaming" [PDF]
, 2006 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This work examines a series of mining-related dream narratives as a means of gauging how a community of New Guinean artisanal and small-scale gold miners ...
Moretti, Daniele
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Recovering lost gold with improved efficiency, productivity and environmental impacts in Kenya [PDF]
, 2021 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a subsistence level livelihood for many rural communities across the world. In Kenya, it provides work for an estimated 40,000 people and produces 5 metric tons of gold per year (Barreto et al.
Bide, Tom +2 more
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The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana
Science of The Total Environment, 2021 Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while industrial mining is prevalent in the country, the expansion of artisanal mining, or Galamsey has escalated in recent years.
Abigail Barenblitt +10 more
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Solid-phase partitioning and release-retention mechanisms of copper, lead, zinc and arsenic in soils impacted by artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities. [PDF]
Chemosphere, 2020 Tabelin CB +11 more
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Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2021 This article discusses the socio-cultural consequences of small-scale artisanal gold mining on the archaeological record and other heritage resources at Awudua Dada, located in the Prestia-Huni Valley District of the Western Region, Ghana. The settlement
Fritz Biveridge
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Access to Land and Natural Resources in the Peruvian Amazon
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2022 This article explores power relations between farmers and artisanal gold miners based on an analysis of a buffer zone in the Amazonian department of Madre de Dios (Peru), which has been experiencing a gold rush since the mid-2000s.
Céline Delmotte
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