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NKOTA WATA: Mining and metaphor in Hamtai-Anga "Gold Dreaming" [PDF]
, 2006 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This work examines a series of mining-related dream narratives as a means of gauging how a community of New Guinean artisanal and small-scale gold miners ...
Moretti, Daniele
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Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining
Nature Communications, 2022 Mercury emissions from artisanal and small-scale gold mining throughout the Global South exceed coal combustion as the largest global source of mercury.
J. Gerson +22 more
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Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2023 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) represents 20% of gold supply and 90% of gold mining workforce globally, which operates in highly informal setups.
Maureene Ondayo +5 more
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Multivariate studies and heavy metal pollution in soil from gold mining area
Heliyon, 2023 Mining generates large volumes of waste, which if not regulated can release toxic metals, causing widespread environmental contamination. This study focused on heavy metal contamination in topsoil within a mining area at Nangodi in the Northern Region of
O. Akoto +6 more
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Advances in Civil Engineering, 2023 In order to solve the problem that the broken rock mass is easy to collapse and fall during the excavation of a submarine gold mine, two kinds of bolt-mesh-concreting combined support schemes are designed by means of field engineering geological ...
Yu-yun Fan +6 more
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Mercury and CO2 emissions from artisanal gold mining in Brazilian Amazon rainforest
Nature Sustainability, 2023 The Tapajós River basin in Brazil is one of the world’s regions most affected by artisanal gold mining (ASGM), which is responsible for the release of mercury and high energy consumption.
Benjamin Fritz +4 more
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Journal of Economic Geography, 2023 This article explores how the gold mining sector has adapted and evolved in developing countries since the onset of the global pandemic. A major criticism of capital-intensive gold mines has been that they occur as enclaves which fail to catalyze local
G. Hilson +5 more
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Resources policy, 2023 Mining is a capital-intensive sector that requires substantial upfront investments and continuous capital expenditure to sustain and improve production.
Tania Klayme, K. Gokmenoglu, B. Rustamov
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Distribution of In Situ Stress in Northwest Jiaodong Peninsula
Advances in Civil Engineering, 2022 In order to study the present state of the tectonic stress field in northwest Jiaodong Peninsula, the characteristics of the ground stress distribution along depth were analyzed with the method of regression analysis.
Xingquan Liu +6 more
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Gold Mining in the Amazon Region of Ecuador: History and a Review of Its Socio-Environmental Impacts
Land, 2022 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and large-scale mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon region is potentially harmful to nature, and its impacts are associated with environmental degradation and deterioration of people’s health.
Carlos Mestanza-Ramón +6 more
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