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Mercury Pollution Due to Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis [PDF]
The study reviews small-scale gold mining in the Philippines and assesses economically mercury pollution and other development problems of the industry.
Asirot, Jasminda, Israel, Danilo C.
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MiningIn recent decades, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has spurred population and economic growth in the small rural communities in which it is located, along with causing contamination of the soil, air, and water with grave effects on human ...
Rolando Quispe Aquino +2 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Mercury Pollution Due to Small-Scale Gold Mining: A Serious Menace [PDF]
This issue suggests measures to address the problem of mercury pollution and promote better environmental management of small-scale mining. Utilizing secondary data from mining institutions and primary data from key informants, two case study sites are ...
Asirot, Jasminda, Israel, Danilo C.
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Closure of Artisanal Small Scale Gold Mining Processing Plants in Ecuador
Journal of Management and Sustainability, 2015 Political tension over the discharge of artisanal mine tailings into the Puyango-Tumbes River in Ecuador, which flows into northern Peru, has prompted the closure of the responsible artisanal small gold processing plants and the construction of central processing and communal tailings facility.
Brandon Nichols +3 more
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Mining ‘Waste’ [Elektronisk resurs] : Repurposing Residues in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
, 2021 Gold mining, like all other forms of mining, is strongly associated with the production of a wide range of residues, whether this concerns (toxic) waste materials or the environments transformed in pursuit of gold.
Pijpers, Robert, +6 more
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, 2012 The table of contents for this item can be shared with the requester. The requester may then choose one chapter, up to 10% of the item, as per the Fair Dealing provision of the Canadian Copyright ActThis is a practical guide that policy makers, miners ...
Artisanal Gold Council +1 more
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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2018 The largest source of global mercury (Hg) anthropogenic inputs to the environment is derived from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities in developing countries.
Jacqueline R. Gerson +3 more
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, 2020 : Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides incomes to an estimated 42 million of individuals around the world, yet systematic data on miners\u2019 earnings are lacking. To remedy this, we developed a sampling and survey method.
Geenen, Sara +2 more
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, 2014 This paper offers a critical analysis of the most contemporary development intervention concerned with ameliorating the problems of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa, namely the emergence of Fairtrade Gold.
Childs, John
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