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Phytoextraction to promote sustainable development

Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2013
Mining makes a positive contribution to the economy of Indonesia. Significant earnings accrue through the export of tin, coal, copper, nickel and gold. Of these commodities, gold carries the highest unit value.
C W N Anderson
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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

Mining technology in the artisanal extraction of gold

, 2014
El estudio mide el nivel de influencia de la tecnología en la extracción de minerales auríferos por el sector artesanal, estableciendo los niveles de uso de la tecnología en el ciclo de minado en la minería artesanal, que comprende las actividades principales de extracción del mineral aurífero.
Romero Baylón, Alfonso, Toledo Garay, Enrique, Gallarday Bocanegra, Tomás   +2 more
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The politics of toxicity governance in Colombian gold mining

Journal of Political Ecology
The most recent Global Mercury Assessment estimates that human-made mercury releases are approximately 2,220 tons per year and that a significant source is artisanal and small-scale gold mining (UNEP 2019).
Christoph Kaufmann
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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

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

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
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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
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
wiley   +1 more source

IMPACT OF ARTISANAL PERMA GOLD MINING ON GROUNDWATER QUALITY

International Journal of Advanced Research, 2022
The artisanal exploitation of gold in Perma is not without impact on the environment and even the quality of groundwater. For this, three gold panning sites were selected. Samples of water (surface and underground) and sediments were taken during the rainy season between the months of August and September 2021.
L.A.S. Tometin, W.K. Chouti, A. Aboubakari, I. Agani, M. Dannon, J.K. Fatombi, D. Mama   +6 more
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