Challenges to measuring, monitoring, and addressing the …
Challenges to measuring, monitoring, and addressing the cumulative impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Ecuador Rebecca Adler Miserendino, Bridget A. Bergquist, Sara E. Adler, Jean Remy Davée Guimarães, Peter S.J. Lees, Wilmer Niquen, P. Colon Velasquez-López, Marcello M. Veiga
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Based on qualitative data gathered in the two largest artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) towns in South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we analyze...
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Modernizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Harnessing …
Distinguishing between artisanal and small-scale mining, the study then examines newly developed, phase-specific technologies. It assesses the benefits, opportunities, and policy options linked to emerging technologies in ASM.
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Report on Small-scale Mining in Papua New Guinea
Small-scale mining is a legally recognized economic activity and a significant contributor to the rural economy in PNG. Characteristics of gold mining are quite different from any other …
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Site 2: Mechanized small-scale mining, Sprinter minivan water …
Ghana has a broad variety of mineral deposits, which includes oil, gold, gas, manganese, bauxite, and diamonds; nevertheless, there is a major contrast between large-scale mining (LSM) and ...
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Small-scale Gold Mining in the Amazon. The cases of …
Small-scale Gold Mining in the Amazon. The cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname . Editors: Leontien Cremers, Judith Kolen, Marjo de Theije . Synopsis (backside of the book) Small-scale gold mining increasingly causesenvironmental problems and socio-political conflicts in the Amazon. Uncontrolled use of mercury and deforestation
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Challenges with formalizing artisanal and small-scale mining …
Chinese-backed small-scale mining companies deploy modern equipment such as bulldozers, scrapers, draglines, mills, sieves, and separators to extract gold from placer …
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The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing …
Small-scale gold mining refers to extraction and processing through manual or partially mechanised techniques, although the scope of extraction, capital invested, and degree of mechanisation is intensifying. With potential for income-generation, mining creates employment and can drive rural transformation.
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Report on Small-scale Mining in Papua New Guinea
Small-scale mining is a legally recognized economic activity and a significant contributor to the rural economy in PNG. Characteristics of gold mining are quite different from any other industry (cash crops, fisheries and timber) because the value of …
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SITUATION ANALYSIS OF THE SMALL-SCALE GOLD …
SMALL-SCALE GOLD MINING IN SURINAME Reforming the sub-sector to promote sound management Prepared by CHRISTOPHER HEALY and MARIEKE HEEMSKERK Edited by ... HM-SSM Highly mechanized small-scale mining IBER Institute for Biology and Environmental Research IDU‟s Interdepartementale Units (Interdepartmental Units) LBGO Lager …
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Modernizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM): Artisanal mining refers to individuals, small groups, or families extracting minerals with minimal or no mechanization, often informally. Artisanal miners often operate on a small scale, focusing on local deposits.
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Report on Small-scale Mining in Papua New Guinea
Report on Small-scale Mining in Papua New Guinea 7 Official Definition of Small-scale Mining There is no particular definition given to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector. Several parameters do influence what can accurately be described as a small-scale mining operations and it is normally a country specific.
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Mechanization of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in …
Since the beginning of the 21st century, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in West Africa has undergone intensification and significant development due to the …
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Site specific: Heterogeneity of small-scale gold mining in …
Of additional interest is the fact that workers at this site self-identified as operating a form of "small-scale mechanized mining" rather than at Site 1, who self-identified as "mechanized galamsey," or "gather-them-and-sell," a local term referring to artisanal mining, which now additionally serves as a sign for illegal mining ...
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How efficient are they really? A simple testing method of …
This paper demonstrates a simple, minimally-invasive method of estimating the gold recovery rate of gravitational separation equipment used by artisanal and small-scale miners at alluvial gold sites in the Guianas, South America.
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Assessing the Viability of Artisanal Mining for Alluvial …
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been a long time venture in Nigeria, and gold mining accounts for an extensive amount of artisanal mining activities (Idris-Nda et al., 2018; Adeoye, 2015; Makinde et al., 2013). The large deposits of gold in the north-west and south-west of Nigeria, and smaller deposits in some others locations ...
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Modernizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM): Artisanal mining refers to individuals, small groups, or families extracting minerals with minimal or no mechanization, often informally. Artisanal …
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Mechanization of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in …
Since the beginning of the 21st century, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in West Africa has undergone intensification and significant development due to the introduction of increasingly mechanized extraction and processing method.
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The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing …
Small-scale gold mining refers to extraction and processing through manual or partially mechanised techniques, although the scope of extraction, capital invested, and degree of mechanisation is intensifying. With potential for income-generation, mining creates …
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Michael Priester. Thomas Hentschel Small-Scale Gold …
In small-scale gold mining, the raw ore containing only about 1-100 g Au per ton has to be concentrated into marketable products containing at least about 90 % Au. The requisite processes are diverse, complicated, and often involve the use of toxic reagents (cyanides, mercury, long-chain hydrocarbons, etc.).
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Operation and Cost Analysis of a Partly Mechanized …
In this presentation one of these small auriferous orebodies is described and the operation of a small mine is outlined. The employed mining methods during start up and throughout …
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Understanding small-scale gold mining practices: An …
Small-scale gold extraction entails several steps depending on the type of deposit (primary, where gold is embedded in quartzite rocks; or secondary, where gold has washed away and been deposited along watercourses) and the use of specific tools, from simpler ones (such as a gold pan) to more mechanized ones (pumps, grinding mills, and ...
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Photographs of artisanal gold production in Colombia. A. Mechanized
In the expansion of the gold mining frontier, mercury contamination from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining has called the attention of governments, international agencies and scholars across ...
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How efficient are they really? A simple testing method of …
This paper demonstrates a simple, minimally-invasive method of estimating the gold recovery rate of gravitational separation equipment used by artisanal and small-scale miners at alluvial gold …
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Project ENACT Strategic Assessment: Illegal Gold …
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), which supplies the gold industry in Central ... with the development of artisanal and more mechanized forms of gold mining activities, which likely benefited economic and social development in the region. However, the context has also attracted criminal actors who engaged in illegal gold mining ...
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Literature Review: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM)
Owusu and Dwomoh (2012) describe small-scale mining as artisanal mining of precious minerals, particularly gold and diamonds; involving people, most of whom stark illiterates, who employ primitive methods (Amponsah-Tawiah and Dartey-Baah, 2011). Artisanal small-scale mining is described by Hentschel et al. (2003, p.
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The cyanide revolution: Efficiency gains and exclusion in …
In recent decades, gold mining expanded from its historical core (South Africa, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Russia) into a wide range of new gold mining regions, many of them located in the global South (Verbrugge and Geenen, 2020).In addition to the expansion of large-scale industrial mining, many of these regions have witnessed a notable …
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Challenges with formalizing artisanal and small-scale mining …
Chinese-backed small-scale mining companies deploy modern equipment such as bulldozers, scrapers, draglines, mills, sieves, and separators to extract gold from placer deposits along the Lom River.
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Small-scale Gold Mining in the Amazon. The cases of …
Small-scale Gold Mining in the Amazon. The cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname . Editors: Leontien Cremers, Judith Kolen, Marjo de Theije . Synopsis (backside of …
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Modernizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: …
Distinguishing between artisanal and small-scale mining, the study then examines newly developed, phase-specific technologies. It assesses the benefits, opportunities, and policy options linked to emerging technologies in ASM.
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