نتایج جستجو برای: artisanal mining

تعداد نتایج: 88088  

Journal: :Environmental Science & Policy 2021

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood practice around the world, especially in Global South. In Tanzania, millions of people depend on artisanal gold many these are Geita, main region Tanzania. Based qualitative research conducted this region, paper engages miners’ experiences mining. It highlights how extracting experienced as increasingly difficult miners worry that res...

2013
Geoffrey S. Plumlee James T. Durant Suzette A. Morman Antonio Neri Ruth E. Wolf Carrie A. Dooyema Philip L. Hageman Heather A. Lowers Gregory L. Fernette Gregory P. Meeker William M. Benzel Rhonda L. Driscoll Cyrus J. Berry James G. Crock Harland L. Goldstein Monique Adams Casey L. Bartrem Simba Tirima Behrooz Behbod Ian von Lindern Mary Jean Brown

BACKGROUND In 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières discovered a lead poisoning outbreak linked to artisanal gold processing in northwestern Nigeria. The outbreak has killed approximately 400 young children and affected thousands more. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to undertake an interdisciplinary geological- and health-science assessment to clarify lead sources and exposure pathways, identify additional ...

2015
Jennifer Kuan

Innovation is an important source of economic growth and competitive advantage. Consequently, a diverse literature in economics and management addresses a variety of questions about how to manage technological change. This paper explores the "opposite" question: What explains the absence of change? We apply existing theories of non-adoption to our case study, salt mining in the Sahara desert, i...

2016
Stefan Doering Stephan Bose-O’Reilly Ursula Berger

BACKGROUND The continuous exposure to inorganic mercury vapour in artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) areas leads to chronic health problems. It is therefore essential to have a quick, but reliable risk assessing tool to diagnose chronic inorganic mercury intoxication. This study re-evaluates the state-of-the-art toolkit to diagnose chronic inorganic mercury intoxication by analysing data ...

Journal: :The Extractive Industries and Society 2021

For the last two decades, Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting — predominantly in 3T ASM (i.e. tin, tantalum tungsten) is that artisanal feeds violence (including sexual violence), conflicts, underdevelopment, poverty. The have extensively studied, academic research turn triggered empiric...

2016
Simba Tirima Casey Bartrem Ian von Lindern Margrit von Braun Douglas Lind Shehu Mohammed Anka Aishat Abdullahi

BACKGROUND From 2010 through 2013, integrated health and environmental responses addressed an unprecedented epidemic lead poisoning in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. Artisanal gold mining caused widespread contamination resulting in the deaths of > 400 children. Socioeconomic, logistic, and security challenges required remediation and medical protocols within the context of local resources, l...

Journal: :Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management 2023

Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is mining of gold deposits with simple physical chemical characteristics using equipment technology. In 2005, total mercury release in the environment ASGM was more than twice from this sector, around 35% mercury, an annual estimate at 727 tons, becoming largest global resource anthropogenic release. Indonesia, released to estimated 340 metric tons p...

Journal: :Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 2016

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