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Estimates suggest that up to 100 million people are directly or indirectly exposed to mercury from small-scale gold mining. A new gold standard. To counter gold mining's toxic trail, planetGOLD is facilitating the sharing of technical materials and guidance between artisanal gold mines and governments. It is also advocating for new ...
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Indonesia is host to a long history of gold mining and is responsible for a significant contribution to world gold production. This is true not only with regard to large gold mining companies but also to small-scale mining groups comprised of people and enterprises that participate in the gold industry of Indonesia. More than two thousand gold mining …
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Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector in Burkina Faso. Globally ASGM has been steadily ... The consultant carried out an in-depth literature review covering donor reports, academic studies, government documents and news reports (see full list in Annex A). In addition, the consultant identified ...
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Reliable financial source for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has been a topic of concern for researchers, politicians, policy makers, civil society organisations, international donors and other development stakeholders in mineral-rich countries. This paper uses a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed journal …
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public health implications of illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana. The review focused on assessing the current state of illegal gold mining, evaluating the effectiveness of regulatory frameworks and policy interventions, investigating the health effects of mercury exposure in small-scale mining, analyzing
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Mining activities and artisanal small-scale mining release wastewater into the environment, which can cause severe damage to the ecosystem. • Technologies such as SAVMIN®, SPARRO®, Biogenic sulphide, and DESALX® have been used for the treatment of mining wastewater.
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The environmental impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) are currently a major issue globally. There is cause for concern given the rapid loss of forest resources and pollution of water bodies through contamination with heavy metals like cyanide, arsenic, and mercury. The study investigated the livelihood and …
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This report is one of three synthesis documents produced via an integrated assessment (IA) that aims to increase understanding of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Ghana. Given the complexities surrounding ASGM, an IA framework was utilized to analyze economic, social, health, and environmental data, and co …
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A thematic analysis of the small-scale mining literature guided by this framework finds evidence that past exclusionary policies and poor state-stakeholder relationships may have kindled resistance by cultivating these proposed conditions over …
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining mining, like other extractive activities, poses a number of challenges for human health . Foremost is that most mining community residents are impoverished and live in rural settings that lack basic resources such as health care services and clean potable water.
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Illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities have serious environmental and health consequences. In this study, we developed a framework for calculating the economic costs associated with the negative environmental and social impacts of ASGM in the Brazilian Amazon.
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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 …
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is crucial to the livelihoods of close to 20 million people in over 80 countries, including 4-5 million women, mainly in rural areas with limited alternative economic prospects, particularly in developing countries. ... including those developed under the NAPs. The global literature review also ...
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Aims: To determine the amount of mercury discharged into Namukombe stream, the major water body in Syanyonja village, Busia gold district and investigate the impacts of mercury-based artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) on …
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Grey Literature, Reports and Unpublished Studies 25 ... Books and Book Chapters 26 Literature Cited 27. A Contextual Review of the Ghanaian Small-scale Mining Industry 3 Introduction The aim of this report is to provide a detailed overview of the Ghanaian small-scale mining ... Small-scale gold mining is, for the most part, confined to these ...
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Artisanal and small-scale mining is a widespread economic sector in the African Great Lakes Region, where it has an adverse impact on the population's environment. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and consider the typology of the environmental impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining, in particular, the …
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Global Trends in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A review of key numbers and issues was prepared by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) for the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (IGF).
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Background: Mercury (Hg) is used in gold mining to extract gold from ore by forming "amalgam"-a mixture composed of approximately equal parts mercury and gold. Approximately 15 million people, including approximately 3 million women and children, participate in artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in developing countries.
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