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Occupational accidents in artisanal mining in Katanga, D.R.C.

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2013
Introduction: This study focuses on accidents in artisanal mining, to support policies improving miners' employability. Materials and Methods: Based on a questionnaire administered in November 2009 to a sample of 180 miners from the artisanal mining of ...
Myriam Elenge, Alain Leveque, Christophe De Brouwer   +2 more
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Rethinking Artisanal Mining: The Lived Experiences of Rural Artisanal Mining Communities in South Africa

Journal of Social and Development Sciences
In South Africa, colonialism and apartheid have left a legacy of a gendered, racially and geographically skewed extractive industry, in which many rural communities endowed with mineral resources face severe economic hardships, marginalization, and socio-cultural disorganization resulting from, among other things, land and mineral resource ...
Zondo, Nonkululeko Melody
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Mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining equipment

Radiology Case Reports, 2023
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining uses mercury to isolate gold from ore. Although uncommon in the United States, it is more common in poor and undeveloped countries.
Andrew Waack, BS, Meghana Ranabothu, BS, Venkatramana Vattipally, MD   +2 more
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Work and Masculinity in Katanga’s Artisanal Mines

Africa Spectrum, 2014
This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the ...
Jeroen Cuvelier
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Chilean artisanal mining: a gambling scenario [PDF]

REM - International Engineering Journal, 2020
Abstract One of the most characteristic aspects of artisanal mining is the lack of geological exploration. Going into production without previous exploration is here defined as a gambling scenario. The present study intended to quantify the risk associated to such gambling by analyzing the operations of an area of artisanal underground gold mining in ...
Constanza Espinoza, Jacopo Seccatore, Miguel Herrera   +2 more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

, 2017
This chapter argues the significant issues affecting artisanal and small-scale mining in the Asia-Pacific Region are caused by the profit-driven nature of the industry, which encourages poor practices to lower operational costs. Three key issues—environmental damage, health and safety and security—seriously impact on the industry, and will not be ...
Collins, Nina, Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, Davis, Kenneth, Kumar, S. Vijay, Bernaudat, Ludovic   +4 more
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Artisanal mining in Africa. Green for Gold?

The Economic Journal
Abstract The livelihoods of 130 to 270 million people depend on artisanal mining. Artisanal mining is a labour-intensive, often illegal, extractive activity. We combine geological knowledge and a source of exogenous temporal variation to construct the first proxy for artisanal gold mining in Africa—the main form of artisanal mining.
Girard, Victoire, Molina Millan, Teresa, Vic, Guillaume   +2 more
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Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo. [PDF]

Nat Sustain, 2018
The sustainability of cobalt is an important emerging issue because this critical base metal is an essential component of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. More than half the world's cobalt mine production comes from the Katanga Copperbelt in DR Congo, with a substantial proportion (estimated at 15-20%) being extracted by artisanal miners ...
Banza Lubaba Nkulu C, Casas L, Haufroid V, De Putter T, Saenen ND, Kayembe-Kitenge T, Musa Obadia P, Kyanika Wa Mukoma D, Lunda Ilunga JM, Nawrot TS, Luboya Numbi O, Smolders E, Nemery B.   +12 more
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FORMALIZATION OF MINING RIGHTS IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY; CADASTRE PERSPECTIVE ON ARTISANAL MINING RIGHTS [PDF]

, 2023
Artisanal mining has long been integral part of livelihood structure and economic systems of certain rural communities. Artisanal mining operates informally in developing countries coupled with social, environmental, and economic challenges ...
Konguka, George Odhiambo, Ayugi, Samson Okoth   +1 more
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A Cross-Sectional Survey on Knowledge and Perceptions of Health Risks Associated with Arsenic and Mercury Contamination from Artisanal Gold mining in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
An estimated 0.5 to 1.5 million informal miners, of whom 30-50% are women, rely on artisanal mining for their livelihood in Tanzania. Mercury, used in the processing gold ore, and arsenic, which is a constituent of some ores, are common occupational ...
Charles, Elias, Thomas, Deborah S K, Konje Eveline, Eveline Konje, Davey, Mark, Dewey, Deborah, Konje, Eveline, Dewey Deborah, Ngallaba Sospatro E, Davey Mark, Deborah Dewey, Sospatro E Ngallaba, Elias Charles, Charles Elias, Mark Davey, Thomas Deborah SK, Ngallaba, Sospatro E, Deborah SK Thomas   +17 more
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