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Contamination status and toxicity risk assessment of selected potentially toxic elements in surface soils under the influence of different land uses in Midwestern Burkina Faso, West Africa

Journal of Trace Elements and Minerals
Background: As land use transitions from rain-fed farming to market gardening and artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso, soil contamination with potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has become a major environmental concern.
Michel Bembamba, Aboubakar Sako
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2281-2294, July 2026.
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Women participation in artisanal gold mining: A case of macalder mines, Kenya

Journal of Environmental Sciences and Technology (JEST), 2023
The aim of the study is to determine women's participation in artisanal gold mining in Macalder mines in Migori County, which is found in Southwestern Kenya. A mixed-method research design was used in the study to collect and analyse both qualitative and quantitative data.
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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
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Mining ‘Waste’. Repurposing Residues in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

, 2021
Funders: Belmont Forum, NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe).
Pijpers, R.J., Calvimontes, J., Camp, E. van de, D'Angelo, L., Fisher, E., Lanzano, C., Massaro, L.   +6 more
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Effect of artisanal gold mining on woody plant diversity in Western Burkina Faso

Scientific African
Although artisanal gold mining strongly contribute to enhance people incomes in West Africa, this activity can lead to habitat fragmentation and loss of woody species.
Elycée Tindano, Moussa Ganame, Sita Bongoungou, Philippe Bayen   +3 more
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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
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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
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Environmental impact of artisanal gold mining in Nigeria: a review

Dutse Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences
It is a known fact that artisanal gold mining (AGM) benefits poor farming communities in Nigeria, and its uncontrolled expansion has become a serious threat to the environmental and public health. This review intends to examine the main environmental issues connected to AGM in Zamfara and Niger states including places where most mining is not regulated.
Binitie Vincent Oseikhuemen, Christopher Simon Dalom, Esharive Ogaga   +2 more
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Chami, ville nouvelle et ville de l’or.Une trajectoire urbaine insolite en Mauritanie

L'Espace Politique, 2020
Based on the Mauritanian case, this article discusses the relationship between the spectacular development of the mining sector in the form of a gold rush and the settlement dynamics that a new national land use planning policy is attempting to frame ...
Laurent Gagnol, Géraud Magrin, Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert   +2 more
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