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Artisanal mining and the use of plant diversity

Revista Facultad Nacional de Agronomía, 2017
This essay presents the variety of vegetation which is utilized in traditional mining activities in the municipalities of Cértegui (Subdistricts of: Cértegui cabecera, La Toma y Recta Larga) and the Panamerican Union (Subdistricts of Animas, Agua Clara and Quiadó).
Fabio García-Cossio, Heiler Cossio-Mosquera, Bertha Conto García, Vianney Sarria Palacios, Luis Emilio Conto García   +4 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Spatial Assessment of Impacts of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining on Land Cover and Environment, Batouri, Eastern Cameroun

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2019
Artisanal and small-scale mining affects the quality and components of the environment in the Batouri area in different ways. Activities interfere with air, soil, water, fauna and forest resources. This study seeks to assess the impacts of mining on the
NODEM FOMENE RODRIGUE
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Satellite‐Based Fishing Fleet Tracking: A New Foundation for Fisheries Science and Management

Fish and Fisheries, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 1134-1150, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Satellite‐based vessel‐tracking technologies have ushered in a new era for monitoring fishing activity at scale. By combining artificial intelligence (AI) methods with remotely‐sensed data, researchers can now detect, classify and analyse fishing behaviour across vast and previously unobservable ocean regions.
Jennifer Raynor, Tai Lohrer
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Occupational Risks and Women's Health in Artisanal, Small and Large-scale Mining Activities in Colombia

Iatreia
Introduction: In Colombia, women represent an important percentage in artisanal and small-scale mining; however, the invisibility of their occupational health problems is well-known.
López-Michelena, Luis Ignacio
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IMPACT OF ARTISANAL MINING ON IMPROVING THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF ARTISANAL MINERS

International Journal of Social Sciences and Management Review
Since 2013, the Burundian mining sector has seen several initiatives aimed at integrating this sector into the development engine. Legal and policy reforms have allowed artisanal mining to develop by formalising it. It is with this in mind that this article measures the level of wages and satisfaction with the standard of living of artisanal miners. It
JEAN DE DIEU NKURUNZIZA, FLEURY HABONIMANA, DIDACE NTIRAMPEBA, OSUALD NGENDAKUMANA   +3 more
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Boundaries of Work: Elite Black African Identities and Place of “(Re)productive” Labor in Kenya's Extractive Industries

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1947-1958, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the positioning of elite Black African women in extractive labor spaces, arguing that their experiences are shaped by interrelated feminist concepts of care, time, experience, equality, and difference. Using an African feminist theoretical framework, the study recenters African epistemologies of work and embodiment to ...
Nerea Amisi Okong'o
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Experimental Evaluation of Agricultural Ammonium Nitrate as an Explosive in Underground Artisanal Mining

Applied Sciences
The use of agricultural-grade ammonium nitrate without fuel oil as an explosive has been empirically observed in underground artisanal mining in Ecuador.
Jacopo Seccatore, Christian Ordóñez Guaycha, Pamela Montalvo Rodríguez, Ernesto Reyes Céspedes, Luis David Andrade Rodríguez, Tatiane Marin   +5 more
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Commercially Exploited Seaweed Species in Africa: Occurrences, Chemical Composition, Current Value Chain and Opportunities for Value Addition

Reviews in Aquaculture, Volume 18, Issue 4, September 2026.
Commercially exploited seaweed species in Africa, their biochemical composition, current uses, and value chain are reviewed. Potential value‐addition of seaweed is suggested regionally in Africa amongst countries producing similar seaweed species. ABSTRACT Africa has a wide range of coastal environments that support a diverse array of seaweed species ...
Mondli Abednicko Masanabo, Marthe Jordbrekk Blikra, Trond Løvdal, Dagbjørn Skipnes, Morten Sivertsvik, Aditya Parmar, M. Naushad Emmambux   +6 more
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The Strengthening of Geological Infrastructure, Research and Data Acquisition - Using Gis in Ivory Coast Gold Mines

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017
The artisanal gold mining in Ivory Coast has become a key problem in the mining sector. A diverse group of people in Ivory Coast, including the young and the old, are all engaged in these activities that are reportedly better than agricultural inputs ...
Kouame Kouame Joseph Arthur, Jiang Fuxing, Feng Yu, Zhu Sitao   +3 more
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