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— Introduction. The Africa Mining Vision (AMV), a "pathway, formulated by African nations themselves, that puts the continent's long term and broad development objectives at the heart of all policy making concerned with mineral extraction", Footnote 1 was implemented to facilitate economic transformation in mineral-rich sections of Africa. …
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— South Africa's gold mines, once the apex of global gold production, now grapple with deep-seated challenges – aging infrastructure and depths that test the limits of modern mining.
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— The mines lie within the Ashanti gold belt, one of the richest gold regions in West Africa. The differing impact of artisanal and industrial mines is related to the process of gold extraction, said study co-author Amanda Payton of East Carolina University. Large-scale industrial mines use heavy machinery to dig deep in a concentrated area.
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— Sub-Saharan Africa is home to one of the largest numbers of artisanal and small-scale miners in the world, close to an estimated 10 million, with at least a further 60 million reliant on the sector.
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— Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has intensified considerably in many parts of Africa since the mid-2000s. ASGM is the driving force of territorial …
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1.1 Environmental and Health Issues in Gold Mining Areas 9 1.2 What Is a Mining Community? 12 1.3 How Remote Sensing Informs Agricultural Production 21 3.1 …
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— The 2020 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector report is a collaboration between the World Bank's Extractives Global Programmatic Support Multi …
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— For example, Allchin discusses small- and large-scale gold mining that operated in India from 100 BCE to 300 CE. Similarly, "folk" mining in Colombia was an important source of gold for Spain from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. ... For example, in Africa, most workers mining for gold are panners, who lack capacity to …
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— Sudan has experienced a varied production in recent years but remains a key gold producer in Africa. In 2022, Sudan's gold production was reported at 50,000.000 kg. Despite facing challenges like disruption to artisanal and small-scale mining, the country has become Africa's third-largest gold producer over the last decade.
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— About nine million Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) workers in Africa and people living near ASGM activities are highly exposed to geogenic and anthropogenic potentially toxic elements (PTEs). Despite the hazards and risks posed by ASGM being well characterized, coordinated multidisciplinary environmental …
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— 1. Introduction. In a global context, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is critical in poverty reduction. The ASM sector is a viable pathway for creating sustainable livelihoods and poverty alleviation initiatives, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Osumanu, 2020, p. 209; Mhangara et al., 2020).According to estimations, at least 40 …
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— Section snippets Artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A Snapshot. Nearly three decades ago, the World Bank published the landmark report, Small-Scale Mining: A Review of the Issues (Noetstaller, 1987). The organization relied heavily on this document for guidance throughout the 1990s, when several ambitious multimillion …
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The mines lie within the Ashanti gold belt, one of the richest gold regions in West Africa. The differing impact of artisanal and industrial mines is related to the process of gold extraction, said study co-author Amanda Payton of East Carolina University. Large-scale industrial mines use heavy machinery to dig deep in a concentrated area.
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— The mineral wealth of South Africa has been exploited by Homo sapiens for at least 40,000 years and has provided many and varied commodities including gold, platinum and diamonds. This chapter provides a historical perspective on minerals and mining mainly in South Africa, although it does occasionally stray across the borders into neighbouring …
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— Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is an important source of livelihood for millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), though it is small in its contribution to the total mineral production but employs a larger number of people in rural communities than large-scale mining activities do (Hilson and McQuilken 2014).It is reported that over 25 …
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— Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Zimbabwe can significantly contribute to the economy and improve livelihoods but an enabling regulatory environment is lacking to achieve this vision.
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— Kusasalethu Gold Mine, situated in South Africa's West Wits region, is one of the world's deepest mines, located 90km west of Johannesburg near the Gauteng North-West provincial border.. The mines use twin vertical and sub-vertical shaft systems, conventional mining methods, and conventional grid layouts, with the primary orebody …
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— This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and NGO sources on child labour in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector in Asia and Africa.
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— Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is recognised in Africa, and particularly in West Africa, as one of the income-generating activities for local communities.
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The livelihoods of 130 to 270 million people depend on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), a labor-intensive method of mineral extraction. Based on geological mapping and gold price variations in a yearly panel of 10,628 fine-grained cells, we provide the first estimation of the environmental and wealth impacts of the main form of ASM, gold ...
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— Across Africa, small-scale gold mining is flourishing. However, in most cases, Small-scale has become a euphemism for illegal and the workers who are often referred to as informal diggers are a workforce operating in an unregulated market. In sum, this trade amounts to large-scale mining taking place below the radar, with taxes replaced by ...
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— Mining in most African countries is carried out on both large-scale and small-scale/artisanal mining . While large-scale mining involves companies, who employ advanced technology and enormous capital to extract minerals, artisanal mining or small-scale mining (ASM) on the other hand involves the use of rudimentary methods by …
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ARtISAnAl AnD SMAll-SC AlE GolD MInInG In G hAnA | EID ENCE TO INFORM AN 'ACTION DIALOGU E' 6 Summary Introduction In Ghana, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has grown in size and significance. Its contribution to wealth creation, employment and the economy makes it one of the nation's most important livelihood …
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— AMV Africa Mining Vision ARM Alliance for Responsible Mining ASGM artisanal and small-scale gold mining ASM artisanal and small-scale mining ASM18 International Conference on Artisanaland Small-scale Mining & Quarrying AWIMA Africa Women in Mining Association BGI Better Gold Initiative BGR Bundesanstalt für …
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays a significant socio-economic role in the alleviation of poverty. In Ghana, the increase in and persistence of illegal ASM (galamsey) can be explained by unemployment, cumbersome and costly registration, lack of land, corruption and Chinese engagement.Traditionally, Ghanaian governments have …
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terms: Africa; artisanal small-scale gold mining; artisanal gold mining; environmental pollution; heavy metals; human exposure; health impacts; and names of African countries where ASGM is known to occur. One hundred seventy-three articles that reported multiple toxic environmental hazards in ASGM, most notably PTEs, like As, Cd, CN, Cr, Hg,
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