Define Africans. Africans synonyms, Africans pronunciation, Africans translation, English dictionary definition of Africans. adj. Of or relating to Africa or its peoples, languages, or cultures. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Africa. 2. A person of Afri
Chinese interest in foreign mineral deposits and mines became a continuous affair in this period. State-owned companies, whether small or large, whether controlled by central or provincial government; companies eager to secure their supply of raw materials; private companies of different sizes and ...
Because of the ecological impact of mines on water resources and resultant socio-economic externalities that are passed on to society, we argue that mines must contribute to the South African transformative constitutional agenda by realising, albeit in a limited way, positive obligations related to ...
Africa is rich in natural resources and there have also been many new mineral and energy finds. Offshore oil and gas finds of global significance are shaping new economic directions in both West and East African countries, which previously were not involved in these sectors, such as Ghana, ...
In 2007 and onward, discoveries of new carbonatite intrusions were reported by the Moroccan Office of Hydrocarbon and Mines (ONHYM) throughout the Oulad Dlim massif in the Moroccan Sahara, adjacent to the West African Craton (WAC) margin (Bouabdellah et al., 2012, Bouabdellah, 2013, Montero...
Prices for minerals, grain, and other raw materials also soared on rising global demand. Yet the commodity boom explains only part of Africa's growth story. Natural resources directly accounted for just 24 percent of Africa's GDP growth from 2...
It had to breach the German minefield which had been sown with more than half a million mines – with a dab of military humour this part of the 2nd Battle of El Alamein was called ‘Operation Lightfoot’. South African sappers were to play a significant role opening up the minefield to ...
different types of raw material sources were identified, including primary outcrops and riverbank deposits. Natural surfaces observed on the lithic artifacts were subdivided into different categories to evaluate their origin. The combined description of the petrography and the natural surfaces guided the ...
. Despite the relatively limited size of the excavation (Fig.4), it yielded a rich lithic assemblage, with more than 1350 artefacts of ‘primary classes’ (these ‘primary classes’ refer to flake classes and include quadrilateral, triangular and irregular flakes; Mason1957: p.122) and 145 ...
For example, to determine arsenic pollution in active and abandoned gold mines in Ghana, Mensah et al. (2020) used As K-edge XANES to investigate the speciation of the dominant fraction of As in soil samples. This information is critical to understand mobility and thus, associated health ...