Financing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining for Sustainable Rural
Nigeria is via artisanal and small-scale mining, which accounts for about 0.5% of the country‟s GDP. In Central African Republic (CAR), rough diam ondsWeb
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Artisanal cobalt mining swallowing city in Democratic Republic of …
Artisanal and small-scale mining are estimated to employ an estimated 200,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and over a million more are indirectly involved through trade and ...Web
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NOVAFRICA » Artisanal mining in Africa
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 …Web
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Full article: Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing …
The Shamva project was heralded as a "best practice in small-scale mining" by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Footnote 9 in its early days; Hentschel, Hruschka, and Priester (Citation 2002) describe how incomes of artisanal miners rose by up to 30% in the early phase of Shamva's operations. Notwithstanding the importance ...Web
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(PDF) Health and Safety Risk Mitigation among Artisanal
Causal risk factors associated with equipment used by artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Kadoma and Shurugwi in Zimbabwe in 2020: (a) hazardous noise exposure at a site with six stamp mills ...Web
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Brick by brick, block by block: Building a sustainable formalization
They also launched, in 2020, the Africa Environmental Health and Pollution Management Program (P167788), from which Ghana will receive US$8715,596 to 'reduce exposure to mercury and uPOPs pollution at pilot sites and strengthen the institutional capacity to manage and regulate mercury use in artisanal small-scale gold mining …Web
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Monitoring the development of artisanal mines in South Africa
coal mining. In South Africa, there is growing concern over artisanal mining (Mutemeri and Petersen, 2002; Thornton, 2014). There is an acknowledgement of the economic function that artisanal mining plays in poverty alleviation, particularly as regards the circular flow of income and its contribution to the mainstream economy.Web
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The role of artisanal mining in deforestation: New insights from Africa
We use "artisanal mining" to refer to labour-intensive methods of mineral extraction in artisanal and small-scale mines. These mines, largely informal, have little in common with the widely studied, large-scale and capital intensive industrial mines (Bazillier and Girard 2020). Artisanal miners may threaten soils and forests as they exploit ...Web
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A systematic review of artisanal and small-scale mining: Impacts …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities have contributed, in most cases, to the rural development of some African countries. Practically, these activities have influenced the environmental, health and socio-economic status. In essence, there is a need to investigate how these activities fuel poverty eradication in Africa. Here, a …Web
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The Local Impact of Artisanal Mining: Evidence from Sub …
April 2022 to March 2023 Funding category Small Research Grants The number of people working in artisanal and small-scale mines has sharply risen in recent …Web
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The ASGM Sector in Africa: Lessons from China | SpringerLink
1 Introduction. This chapter considers one of the fastest-growing export sectors in Africa—gold from the artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) sector. It is a sector that was largely illegal in most African countries until the 1990s and has grown from virtually nothing to exports of at least 446 tonnes of gold to Dubai in 2016, 1 a ...Web
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Impact of New Mining Technologies on Large-Scale and …
Africa was made in Burkina Faso (World Bank Group, 2019). In terms of industrial production, over 50 tonnes of gold and 211,243 dry metric tonnes of zinc concentrate were produced in industrial mines in 2019. However, the level of gold production from artisanal mining reported remains low, mainly because of fraud.Web
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Mining in Africa: Artisanal and small-scale miners will be the last …
With the right investments, Africa could industrialise its mining sector and increase its share of revenues as global demand for battery minerals grows, experts say. But what about the continent's nine million artisanal and small-scale miners, will they also …Web
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A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and Small‐Scale …
Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work …Web
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Instability in the Sahel: how a jihadi gold rush is fuelling violence
Traders in the region confirmed that much of the Sahel's artisanally mined gold is smuggled into Togo, where it is taxed at the country's lower rate, before being flown off to Dubai, mostly in ...Web
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Women position in artisanal and small-scale mining in Sub …
Women play a great role in the production value chain of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper provides a systematic literature review (SLR) of published peer-reviewed journal articles on women in ASM with main focus on participation in ASM production value chain, socio-economic and health impact of …Web
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining | Pact
Pact has been working to improve the ASM sector and the lives of artisanal miners for more than a decade. Currently operating in Africa, Asia and South America, Pact works in …Web
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Understanding Migration to West African Artisanal Mines
Gold miners are usually young men (50% are between 25 and 35 years old), with low education levels. Artisanal, hand-dug pits tend to attract low-skilled, impoverished and often unemployed people. Women and children are also important contributors to the workforce on mining sites, despite existing child protection laws in Burkina Faso and Mali.Web
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Student Field Post: Health in Artisanal Miners Communities: The …
[3] Other reports show child labor in mining sites and deplorable working conditions, such the lack of proper protective equipment [4]. Being from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and led by a need to serve this marginal community, my collaborators and I decided to investigate the humanitarian dilemmas this sector raises, and we set to ...Web
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
What is artisanal and small-scale mining, or ASM? Artisanal and small-scale mining is a largely informal economic sector that includes workers around the globe who use their hands, basic tools such as picks and shovels and low-tech equipment such as bulldozers and more mechanized equipment to extract from the earth vital metals such as cobalt, …Web
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Mining in Mozambique
Mining sector employment is about 19,000 in large-scale mining sector and 120,000 in artisanal and small-scale sector (about 3% of the country's total "formal" employment). Artisanal mining (ASM) remains under-producing and prone to illegal activity as well is one of sources of environmental and social impacts in rural and remote areas.Web
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How the world depends on small cobalt miners
The other big source of supply in Congo is so-called "artisanal" mining. Small-scale informal miners dig up about 15% of Congo's cobalt. That is more than the entire output of Russia, the ...Web
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Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa: …
Extractives, Natural Resources Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges Image: Flickr, The …Web
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Towards a sustainable artisanal gold mining sector in South Africa
A brief and concise definition by the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa defines artisanal mining as a type of small-scale mining that occurs mostly informally …Web
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focus on artisanal gold mining as it is the main employer in the artisanal mining sector in Africa.2 The key challenge is to assess the existence and extent of artisanal and small-scale gold mining activities. ASM is a largely informal sector and, as often with informal activities, we face a paucity of data (World Bank,2019). To overcome this ...Web
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The 'Zambia Model': A blueprint for formalizing artisanal and small
It responds specifically to calls for Boosting Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, 1 a core pillar of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV), a development manifesto branded as …Web
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Towards a sustainable artisanal gold mining sector in South Africa
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 …Web
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USGS Scientists Help Address Conflict Mining
USGS research on artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa has focused on diamond mining in the Central African Republic, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Zimbabwe; and gold mining in Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This year, the USGS began a project assessing artisanal mining of cobalt in the …Web
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Kenya: Artisanal gold miners finally have government support
In addition, of the all gold that shall be processed by the refinery plant, we (artisanal miners) shall get 20% of total revenue collected and we shall get modern gold mining equipment." Acacia Mining, a British company that carried out gold exploration in Kakamega in 2013, subsequently announced estimated deposits of some 1.31 million …Web
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Formalising artisanal and small-scale mining in Mozambique
2. Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A Brief Review of Key Policy Debates, 1990-Present In just three decades, ASM has emerged from virtual anonymity to become one of the most contested and polarizing subjects in the field of internat ional development. Throughout the 1990s, the sector wasWeb
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