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Environmental Health Insights, 2016 Objectives This cross-sectional study aimed at the environmental health hazards at work and cyanide exposure of small-scale gold miners engaged in gold extraction from ores in a mining area in the Philippines.
Ana Marie R. Leung +1 more
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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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Report on gender inclusion in small-scale irrigation
, 2023 Introducing small-scale irrigation can bring opportunities for empowerment and exclusion. To support equity and inclusion, projects must go beyond technology access alone.
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation
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The k'ajchas and the projects of industry and nation in Bolivia (1935-1940)
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2018 The 1938 Convention took place under the presidential administration of “Military Socialists”, as a result of the political crisis generated by the Chaco War (1932-1935), proclaiming political measures that would be implemented during the rest of the ...
Rossana Barragán Romano
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Comparison of Gold Yield with Traditional Amalgamation and Direct Smelting in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining in Uganda [PDF]
Journal of Health and Pollution, 2019 Background. The amalgamation method used by artisanal small-scale miners is the single largest source of global mercury emission. The goal of the ‘Free Your Mine’ project is to stop mercury use in artisanal and small-scale mining. Objectives.
Birgitte Stoffersen +7 more
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The impact of Covid-19 on gold and gemstone artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana and Kenya [PDF]
, 2021 Artisanal and small-scale miners are facing unprecedented challenges due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The paper adopts a practice-based approach to examine the impact of Covid-19 on gold and gemstone artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)
Tagoe, Naa Dedei +4 more
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Heavy Metals in the Soils of Placer Small-Scale Gold Mining Sites in Myanmar [PDF]
Journal of Health and Pollution, 2020 Background. Artisanal and small-scale mining activities are widely practiced globally. Concentrations of heavy metals associated with gold, such as copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) can increase in the ...
Aung Zaw Tun +2 more
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Environmental Challenges, 2023 This study compares the important policy documents that control Ghana's mining industry's impacts on water resources to what is being done in similar African countries, to extract some fundamental principles and point out the inadequacies of these key ...
Raymond Webrah Kazapoe +6 more
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, 2023 Farmers, entrepreneurs, and businesses are already leading the way by expanding irrigation in response to climate variability and the growing demand for vegetables and fruit through supplemental and dry-season irrigated production.
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation
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Resources, 2016 Ghana’s small-scale mining sector faces complex challenges, including environmental degradation and pollution, loss of life and increased health risks, despite several years of implementation of small-scale mining laws.
Alex Osei-Kojo, Nathan Andrews
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