The exploration and mining of Nigerian barite are primarily by artisanal small-scale miners (ASM) whose operations characterized poor productivity. As a result, the quantity quality barites produced do not satisfy nation’s oil sector demands other industries that require mineral. This situation leads to massive importation mineral with negative impact on country’s drive toward increasing contri...

In Guinea, attempts are underway by international donors, development practitioners, and the national government to bring artisanal small-scale diamond mining in line with a formal regulation parcel allocation system. This formalization initiative Guinea—along similar reforms aimed at land tenure regularization across Africa—attempt superimpose modern legal institutions onto community instituti...

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...

Artisanal and small-scale gold miners are confronted with numerous hazards often resulting in varying degrees of injuries and fatalities. In Ghana, like many developing countries, there is paucity of information on the causes and nature of the accidents that result in the injuries. The study was a retrospective, cross sectional type that examined the records of injuries of artisanal and small-s...

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...

BACKGROUND Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world's largest anthropogenic source of mercury emission. Gold miners are highly exposed to metallic mercury and suffer occupational mercury intoxication. The global disease burden as a result of this exposure is largely unknown because the informal character of ASGM restricts the availability of reliable data. OBJECTIVE To estimate t...