Therefore, the sector is either ignored or suppressed by powerful actors like mining companies and the government. With South Africa's high unemployment rate and rife poverty levels, alternative ways of development are urgently needed. Not enough jobs are being created in the formal sector to ...
The Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Pubmed databases were used with the following predefined search terms: Africa; artisanal small-scale gold mining; artisanal gold mining; environmental pollution; heavy metals; human exposure; health impacts; and names of African countries where ASGM is known t...
Developing the artisanal mining sector could provide wider socio-economic opportunities.Zama Zama mining, if supported, could contribute to sustainable development in South Africa.Criminilaisng and policing the artisanal mining sector is counterproductive and unsustainable. 关键词: Artisanal mining Zama zamas...
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risk to the environment through mercury use (PROFOR, 2011). In May 2011, the WWF׳s Central Africa Programme Office and World Wildlife Fund–U.S. announced the launching of a new project to address the impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in and around the world׳s protected ...
Institutional gaps and challenges in artisanal and small-scale mining in South Africa While South Africa is respected in the mining fraternity for its seemingly prosperous large-scale mining industry; its artisanal and small-scale mining (AS... PF Ledwaba,N Mutemeri - 《Resources Policy》 被引量...
Comparison between artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana and South Africa: lessons learnt and ways forward. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays a fundamental role in the national and local economies of resource-rich countries in Africa. As such, more eff... DEBRAH,A A.,WATSON,...
The discovery of valuable minerals in the mineral-abundant eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo can stimulate extensive migration into remote areas of the Congo Basin rainforest. Despite the widespread practice of artisanal mining, its role in the ongoing deforestation has not received adequate atte...
Take Kuii in northern Ghana, for example, where there was not even a single hut or house a few decades ago … [has] become so big that it is now probably the largest illegal mining site in West Africa with people from Ghana, Burkina [Faso], and other countries operating at the place...
This paper investigates the technical feasibility of microwave assisted artisanal mining in the production of Sandstone from QwaQwa in South Africa. It further discusses the cultural acceptability by the rural community of the synergetic application of the emerging technology (microwave energy) and the ...