Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a strong market demand. Extraction for some resources has reached such proportions that evidence is measurable from space. We present recent evidence of the global demand for a single commodity and the ecosystem destructi...

The purpose of this research is to establish the grounds for a critical social scientific analysis of mineral development based upon the case study of women in informal peasant gold mining or garimpagem1 in the Brazilian Amazon. Situated at the local/regional level of analysis, this case study illustrates the main tensions of contemporary mineral development. First, the region’s mineral develop...

Background: The enormous numbers of people involved in artisanal gold mining (AGM) together with primitive methods being used in processing gold have resulted in health and environmental challenges. Based on this, both the local and international stakeholders in mining and health sectors engaged in therapeutic practice to mitigate the challenges. Methods: Physical observation and soil samples ...

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) from natural and anthropogenic activities threaten the environment human health. The associations of PTEs with hazards can be powerful prominent mechanisms to release PTEs, considerably hastening their multiple contaminations widespread distribution. This study primarily aimed investigate enhanced potential distribution PTE (arsenic, lead, mercury) coexisting g...

for about a decade the virtual water trade has been highlighted as a means of promoting water efficiency and helping to solve regional restrictions of water resources in order to provide water and food security. although these tools are not just for certain areas of the world with a specific climate, they are more important for countries which are faced with water resources restriction and cris...

Extensively worked in antiquity, Skouriotissa remains the only active copper mine on island of Cyprus. The modern, open-cast operation, however, has almost completely obliterated earlier mining landscape. Here authors report results investigations, including dating, ancient topography mine. They incorporate spatial data derived from archival sources, recent fieldwork and absolute dating into a ...

biogeochemistry is a useful tool for assessing geochemical dispersion patterns. sari gunay epithermal gold deposit was selected in order to assess the application of biogeochemical exploration for gold in northwestern iran. in this study, four sites were sampled in a profile perpendicular to mineralized vein with a control site two km far-off mineralized vein. a sample from each dominant plant ...

Mining is an economic activity that involves extracting, exploiting, and using minerals for commercial purposes. Globally, its growth has been steady in recent decades due to the demand various luxury items industrial projects. The main objective of this research was describe classification mining activities Ecuador name according their treatment capacity. To respond objective, a bibliographic ...

• Importance of investment and mechanization in ASM operations. Relevance distinction between 'artisanal' 'small-scale' mining. Processing equipment technology allow for economies scale. Innovation brings deeper deposits within the reach operators. In South Kivu Province eastern Democratic Republic Congo, use new technologies artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has proliferated over course...