The role of artisanal mining in deforestation: New …

This gold suitability-data appears to capture well artisanal gold mining activities. The cell-level measure of gold suitability has a 37% correlation with the existing – partial, inconsistent and endogenous – records of gold and …

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Wealth and poverty in mining Africa: migration, …

Artisanal mining residents marginalized from their former diggings, were tempted to resort to stealthy forays into the premises of the mining company to remove mineral tailings and transport them back to their settlement to …

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Review of barriers to reduce mercury use in artisanal gold mining

Many interventions have been made by governments, academics, NGOs, and international agencies to reduce mercury pollution. Without a clear definition of what the source …

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Impact of Artisanal Gold Mining in Community …

Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) using mercury affects community agreements for the conservation of forests (CoS) and lakes (CoH), which have a high level of biodiversity in the Peasant Reserve Zone of the Cimitarra River …

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Opportunities and risks of small-scale and artisanal gold …

We use a unique sample of 387 mining-site and non-mining site respondents in eight mining districts in Ghana to understand mining communities' views on the local opportunities and risks …

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Elevated total mercury (THg) levels in water sources …

Keywords: Total Mercury, Artisanal gold mining, Contamination, Spatial distribution . Introduction . Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world's largest anthropogenic source of ...

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Gold in Ghana: The effects of changes in large-scale mining …

Gold mining has been carried out in the former Gold Coast, now Ghana, for centuries (Ofosu-Mensah, 2011a).Artisanal gold mining started in the gold-rich areas long …

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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining …

The spread of artisanal mining and the inf luence of mineral rushes is reflected in small town growth ... influences of the gold-mining settlement (Bryceson, Jønsson & Verbrugge 2013).

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Prostitution or partnership? Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold

Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold-mining settlements. Jesper Bosse Jønsson. 2013, The Journal of Modern African Studies. See Full PDF Download PDF.

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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a crucial source of income for millions of people in developing countries [4], including Sub-Saharan Africa, where it directly …

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Loosely woven love: Sexuality and wifestyles in gold-mining settlements

Tanzania, along with several other African countries, is experiencing a national mining boom, which has prompted hundreds of thousands of men and women to migrate to mineral-rich …

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Mining mobility and settlement during an East African gold …

Gold was discovered in 2010. Nyarugusu is the oldest artisanal gold mining settlement in Tanzania. In terms of investments made by miners from their earnings, the gold output from …

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In this article, we interrogate mining settlement residents' locational choices on the basis of fieldwork survey findings from four artisanal gold and diamond mining settlements in …

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Artisanal gold mining areas in Ghana.

The surge in artisanal gold mining (AGM) activities and the associated environmental impact in Ghana have elicited several stakeholders' attempts to curb the problem.

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The occult goes underground: Rumour, rituals, and the …

Mining rituals went all the way to the top. In May 2023, the NewsDay reported on Pedzisai Scott Sakupwanya, an alleged member of the elite who monopolise Zimbabwe's gold …

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Migration, housing and attachment in urban gold …

Three Tanzanian gold mining settlements representing temporal, spatial and scalar differences along the gold mining trajectory are contrasted: an artisanal …

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Artisanal gold rush mining is a motor force for rapid settlement growth and economic stimulation in rural local economies, but inversely once gold availability shrinks, …

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Prostitution or partnership? Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold

This chapter, based on qualitative interviews in 2009 with women living in artisanal gold mining settlements in southern Tanzania, interrogates the validity of this stereotype. Concentrating on …

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A Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) Analysis of Heavy …

A Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) Analysis of Heavy Metals in Soil and Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) Leaves at an Artisanal Gold Mining Settlement in Southwestern Nigeria () …

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Youth in Tanzania's Urbanising Mining Settlements: Prospecting a

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The emergence of artisanal gold mining and local …

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Prostitution or Partnerschip? Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold

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Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold …

Wifestyles in Tanzanian Artisanal Gold-Mining Settlements." The Journal of Modern African Studies 51, no. 1 (2013): 33–56. Bryceson, Deborah, and Danny MacKinnon. "Eureka and …

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Mining mobility and settlement during an East African gold …

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Recent expansion of artisanal gold mining along the …

In West Africa, the gold mining sector has seen an intense development during the last three decades, propelled by the rise of gold prices. Gold is extracted at various scales, …

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MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE …

Our study was a tiered investigation based on the delineation of: (1) minerals: gold and diamonds; (2) case-study countries: Tanzania, Ghana and Angola; and (3) mining settlement types: early …

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Assessment of Hg-contamination in soils and stream …

The Nambija deposit is located in the Nambija Mineral District (NMD), southeastern Ecuador, east of Zamora (Zamora Chinchípe's country) (Fig. 1).It was worked during colonial …

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Getting grounded? Miners' migration, housing and urban …

Our research surveyed different types of urbanizing settlements distinguished by the mineral mined onsite, either gold or diamonds; large-scale industrial as opposed to artisanal …

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Mining mobility and settlement during an East African …

In light of Shiller's concept of 'irrational exuberance ', we interrogate migrants optimistic material expectations at artisanal and industrial gold ' mining locations during a period of exceptional …

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