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Corporate social responsibility and artisanal mining: Towards a fresh South African perspective

Resources Policy, 2021
In the South African context, legislation around artisanal and small-scale mining largely focusses on small and industrialised mining, making no room for any artisanal type of mining.
Vidette Bester, Liela Groenewald
exaly   +2 more sources

Potential heavy metal pollution of soil and water resources from artisanal mining in Kokoteasua, Ghana

Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 2019
Effluents and mine waste from artisanal mining in Kokoteasua, a community in Ghana, are discharged directly to the environment without prior treatment and have the potential of polluting the soil and water resources that the populace rely on for their ...
Emmanuel Appiah-Adjei, Kwaku Amaning Adjei   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Artisanal mining and its drivers in the South African context

The Extractive Industries and Society, 2023
Josephine Marthina Uys, Vidette Bester
exaly   +2 more sources

Changes in the surface water quality of a tropical watershed in the southeastern amazon due to the environmental impacts of artisanal mining.

Environmental Pollution, 2023
The expansion of areas of human occupation and the increase in economic activity and deforestation are negatively impacting the Amazon ecosystem. Situated in the Carajás Mineral Province in the southeastern Amazon, the Itacaiúnas River Watershed (IRW ...
G. Salomão, R. Dall’Agnol, P. Sahoo, Gabriel Soares de Almeida, Rafael Tarantino Amarante, Leiliane Bozzi Zeferino, J. P. Lopes, P. W. Souza, Normara Yane Mar da Costa, J. T. F. Guimarães, Marcio Sousa da Silva, G. C. Martins, M. F. B. Teixeira, E. D. Marques, R. Angélica, Wilker Emmanoel Oliveira Araújo   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Coexistence and conflict between artisanal mining, fishing, and farming in a Peruvian boomtown

, 2021
A global boom since the early 2000s has spurred major mining projects as well as major social conflicts, with South America standing as a central example on both fronts.
Aaron Malone, N. Smith, Eliseo Zeballos Zeballos   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mercury and Artisanal Mining in China

Environmental Practice, 2004
Throughout the world, the growth of artisanal or small-scale mining has resulted in serious mercury pollution issues.
A. J. Gunson, Marcello M. Veiga
openaire   +1 more source

Informal, Legal, or Illegal? Varieties of Artisanal Mining in the Global South

World Politics
:Artisanal mining in the Global South increased during the 2002–14 commodity boom, yet variation in the informal status of miners remains understudied.
Zaraí Toledo Orozco, Moisés Arce
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2023
In post-2000s Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has become one of the major economic activities that provides income and livelihood opportunities to millions of people. The article attempts to make sense of how such mining activities
Melusi Nkomo, Lotti Nkomo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Framing spaces as (il)legitimate: “dirty” cobalt and the (mis)uses of artisanal and small-scale mining sites in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines
As large-scale mining (LSM) companies and other commercial actors capitalise on a demand boom for Congolese cobalt, they have framed artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) spaces as problematic and illegitimate to make themselves appear “cleaner” than ...
Sarah Katz-Lavigne
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mining from the pipeline: Artisanal oil refining as a consequence of failed CSR policies in the Niger Delta.

Journal of Environmental Management
Oil production in the Niger Delta first attained global prominence after the 1995 hangings of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis. In the face of horrible publicity and credible allegations that international oil companies were complicit in systematic ...
K. Sam, Scott Pegg, A. O. Oladejo
semanticscholar   +1 more source