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, 2018 Artisanal mining in the Bombana district of Southeast Sulawesi and its downstream effects are strikingly evident in the quality of water and sediments examined in this study.
Andrew McWilliam +3 more
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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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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
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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 +4 more
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IatreiaIntroduction: 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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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Applied SciencesThe use of agricultural-grade ammonium nitrate without fuel oil as an explosive has been empirically observed in underground artisanal mining in Ecuador.
Jacopo Seccatore +5 more
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Natural Resources and Political Patronage in Africa: An Ethnicity Level Analysis
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of resource discoveries on ethnicity‐level political patronage in Africa using a large geospatial dataset of 254 ethnic groups in 15 countries over the period 1960–2004. We find that the first (or single first) resource discovery in a virgin ethnic homeland increases the share of cabinet posts of that ethnicity.
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Nemera Mamo
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IMPACT OF ARTISANAL MINING ON IMPROVING THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF ARTISANAL MINERS
International Journal of Social Sciences and Management ReviewSince 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 +3 more
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Women, mercury and artisanal gold mining : Risk communication and mitigation
, 2003 Artisanal miners employ rudimentary techniques for minéral extraction and often operate under hazardous, labour intensive, highly disorganized and illegal conditions.
M.M. Veiga, J.J. Hinton, C. Beinhoff
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