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Ecotoxicological Assessment of Mercury in Fish From a Gold‐Mining‐Impacted Amazonian River: Biomonitoring and Human Health Risk

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Peixoto de Azevedo River, located in northern Mato Grosso, southern Brazilian Amazon, has a long history of artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM). This study evaluated total mercury (THg) concentrations in fish tissues to assess biomagnification and potential risks.
Augusto Cesar da Costa Castilho, Kleber Solera, Vinícius José Santos Lopes, Gleyce Alves Machado, Ricardo Lopes Tortorela de Andrade, Leandro Dênis Battirola   +5 more
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THE DETERMINANTS OF ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING (ASM) PRODUCTION: EVIDENCE FOR GOLD IN BATOURI, EAST CAMEROON

Revue des Etudes Multidisciplinaires en Sciences Economiques et Sociales, 2020
This document aims to present the factors influencing the production of Gold in Batouri. This study was carried out as part of research to demystify the contours of the Cameroonian mining sector.
Dr micheline NGO BILONG, Ousmanou HAMAWA, Andre TSIMI ELOUNDOU   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

Accès aux ressources naturelles et foncières en Amazonie péruvienne

Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2019
Based on the analysis of a protected buffer zone located in the Amazonian department of Madre de Dios (Peru), which has been experiencing a gold rush since the mid-2000s, this article explores the power relations between farmers and artisanal miners, by ...
Céline Delmotte
doaj   +1 more source

Recent expansion of artisanal gold mining along the Bandama River (Côte d’Ivoire)

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2022
Recent development of small-scale gold mining activities in Côte d’Ivoire is a serious threat to the environment because of deforestation, soil scrapping, pit mining, over-use of water resources and pollution of surface and ground waters by mercury ...
Ndeye Marame Ngom, Modou Mbaye, David Baratoux, Lenka Baratoux, Kouassi Ernest Ahoussi, Jean Kan Kouame, Gayane Faye, El Hadji Sow   +7 more
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Management Strategy in the Golden Era of the Poboya Village Mining Area, Mantikulore District, Palu City

Administrative and Environmental Law Review
Artisanal gold mining in Poboya Village, Mantikulore District, Palu City, poses significant environmental risks due to the continued use of mercury in gold processing. Mercury contamination has degraded land and water quality and threatens public health,
Ikbal Ikbal, Gabriela Almasari Datuan, Abdullah Abdullah, Nursiah Moh. Yunus, Widyatmi Anandy   +4 more
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions socio-culturelles du recours aux pratiques magico-religieuses chez les orpailleurs sur le site aurifère artisanal de M’banga au Niger [PDF]

Revue Hybrides
Gold is a precious metal. In Niger, artisanal gold mining is a practice that leads to a rush of gold seekers to the gold sites. Every gold seeker goes to these sites in search of gold.
Saadou ABOUBACAR, Issoufou OUMAROU
doaj  

Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source