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Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

, 2017
This article is based on ActionAid research exploring the livelihoods of women artisanal miners in the Kampala Camp in Kiltumbi Sub County, Mubende District in Uganda. It shows the different ways in which mining shapes women’s lives and gender relations.
Ssamula, Nalubega Flavia, Ivan Mpagi, Robinah, Harriet Gimbo, Sally Henderson, Harriet Gimbo Robinah, Mpagi, Ivan, Nalubega Flavia Ssamula, Beatrice Ongode, Henderson, Sally, Ongode, Beatrice   +9 more
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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  

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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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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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Resources and Political Patronage in Africa: An Ethnicity Level Analysis

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of resource discoveries on ethnicity‐level political patronage in Africa using a large geospatial dataset of 254 ethnic groups in 15 countries over the period 1960–2004. We find that the first (or single first) resource discovery in a virgin ethnic homeland increases the share of cabinet posts of that ethnicity.
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Nemera Mamo
wiley   +1 more source

Monetary Policy, Institutional Quality, and Ecological Footprint: Insight From ECOWAS

Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2026.
We used panel data to investigate the effect of monetary policy measures on ecological footprint in ECOWAS states. We used 19 years of data with a census sampling method. We employed the fixed effect, pooled mean, system GMM, and DGMM. The research revealed a bi‐directional causality between the policy rate, money supply, institutional quality, and ...
Emmanuel Bosomtwe, Baah Aye Kusi, Samuel Gameli Gadzo, Collins G. Ntim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicine for the Material World

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 434-439, June 2026.
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
wiley   +1 more source

The Senegal of gold and the gold of Senegal between 2000 and now: indicators and factors of evolution [PDF]

Georeview
Gold mining has now occupied a central place in the (mining) economy of Senegal since the early 2000’s. This article explores and analyses the indicators and factors of the evolution of the gold sector, drawing on both on bibliographic information ...
Bakary DOUCOURÉ, Mouhamadou Lamine DIALLO   +1 more
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Blocking the Extractive Order: Political Mobilisations and Infrastructure Disruptions in Sudan and Morocco

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This article examines how blockades targeting extractive infrastructure function as political tools in authoritarian contexts, based on case studies from Sudan and Morocco. It argues that such practices are not merely disruptions but localized strategies of resistance, revealing how marginalised communities contest resource governance ...
Raphaëlle Chevrillon‐Guibert, Mohamed Salah Abdelrahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source