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Climate Change, Conflict, and Resource Extraction: Analyses of Nigerian Artisanal Mining Communities and Ominous Global Trends. [PDF]

Ann Glob Health, 2022
Bartrem C, von Lindern I, von Braun M, Tirima S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Artisanal mining policy development

Mineral Economics
Abstract Millions of people are involved in artisanal mining. High prices for certain commodities attract people. The conditions under which they operate are rarely conducive to health, environmental quality or social justice. Addressing some of the many challenges facing both the miners, their families and their national hosts involves ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Autonomous Machine Learning‐Based Classification and Arrangement of Submillimeter Objects Using a Capillary Force Gripper

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2026.
This study presents an automated system integrating a capillary force gripper and machine learning‐based object detection for sorting and placing submillimeter objects. The system achieved stable and simultaneous manipulation of four object types, with an average task time of 86.0 seconds and a positioning error of 157 ± 84 µm, highlighting its ...
Satoshi Ando, Naoto Watanabe, Chihiro Sekine, Shogen Sekiguchi, Ohmi Fuchiwaki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les agents des mines camerounais : des « entrepreneurs » de la frontière minière ?

Revue Internationale des Études du Développement
For more than a decade, artisanal mining has been attracting large numbers of artisanal miners to mining areas in East Cameroon. As part of its strategy to reduce the social effects of structural adjustment, the World Bank has encouraged the regulation ...
Merlin Ottou
doaj   +1 more source

Between the city and the farm: food environments in artisanal mining communities in Upper Guinea. [PDF]

Public Health Nutr, 2022
Nordhagen S, Fofana ML, Barry AO, Diallo S, Songbono JL, Stokes-Walters R, Zhang LX, Klemm R, Winch PJ.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Species Extirpation and Colonization Reveal Mixed Homogenization and Differentiation Across Terrestrial Taxa After One of the World's Largest Tailings Dam Failures

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
Fundão tailings‐dam failure (2015)—study area and impact gradient. Regional maps locate the Rio Doce Basin in southeastern Brazil and the Fundão dam (red cross), with the black rectangle marking the extent of the main map. The main map follows the downstream tailings pathway along the river corridor (plume highlight).
Reginaldo A. F. Gusmão, Eduardo H. Barros, Tássia J. Bertotto, Marianne Azevedo‐Silva, Tamilie Carvalho, Rogerio L. Rodrigues, Eduardo B. Segatto, Renan L. Betzel, Gustavo P. Pizziolo, Rafaela G. Gatti, Fernanda J. da Silva, Thiago Gonçalves‐Souza   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental and local habitat variables as predictors of trophic interactions in subtidal rocky reefs along the SE Pacific coast

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
Temperature generally drives latitudinal patterns in the strength of trophic interactions, including consumption rates. However, local community and other environmental conditions might also affect consumption, disrupting latitudinal gradients, which results in complex large‐scale patterns.
Catalina A. Musrri, Alistair G. B. Poore, Oscar Pino, Nicolás Riquelme, Wolfgang B. Stotz, Fadia Tala, Martin Thiel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mining the Desert Margins: Exploring the Territorial and Organizational Dynamics of Artisanal Mining in Namibia

EchoGéo
This article examines the social and spatial organization of artisanal gemstone mining in Namibia, shedding light on a largely under-researched area.
Antoine Latarge, Hugo Quemin, Kaarina Efraim, Marie Forget, Mélanie Duval   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge and perceptions of health and environmental risks related to artisanal gold mining by the artisanal miners in Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional survey

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
INTRODUCTION: artisanal gold mining is an activity ensuring the survival of about 700,000 families in Burkina Faso with a considerable contribution to the national economy.
Adama Sana, Christophe De Brouwer, Hervé Hien   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Sentinel-2A orbital imagery for the detection of deforested areas caused by artisanal mining activities in the Tapajós Environmental Protection Area, northern Jacareacanga municipality, Pará State, Brazil [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
This study analyzed the advance of deforestation associated with artisanal mining in the Tapajós Environmental Protection Area (APA), north of Jacareacanga, Pará State, Brazil, for 2017 and 2024.
J. E. Klock, L. S. Osako, S. S. Costa, A. N. Rossete   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source