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  Occupational Health Programs for Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold …

  20191023 · There is an urgent need for research on comprehensive occupational health programs addressing the array of hazards faced by artisanal and small-scale miners.

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  Exposure of Small-Scale Gold Miners in Prestea to Mercury, …

  2016101 · Small-scale gold miners in Ghana have been using mercury to amalgamate gold for many years. Mercury is toxic even at low concentration. We assessed occupational exposure of small-scale gold miners to mercury in Prestea, a gold mining town in Ghana. We ...

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  An Integrated Assessment Approach to Address Artisanal and Small-Scale ...

  2015917 · Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is growing in many regions of the world including Ghana. The problems in these communities are complex and multi-faceted. To help increase understanding of such problems, and …

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  Mercury Exposure and Its Health Effects in Workers in the …

  2022213 · Gold is one of the most valuable materials but is frequently extracted under circumstances that are hazardous to artisanal and small-scale gold miners’ health. A common gold extraction method uses liquid mercury, leading to a high exposure in ...

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  CHALLENGES IN COMBATING CHILD LABOUR IN …

  2019529 · Abstract. Artisanal small-scale mining is widely operated in various countries serving as a livelihood to many rural communities. However, it is a significant source of environmental mercury contamination which affects human health. Amalgamation and amalgam smelting, two significant steps in the artisanal small-scale mining …

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  Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in …

  2012427 · 24. M. Heemskerk, “Livelihood Decision Making and Environmental Degradation: Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Suriname Amazon,” Society and Natural Resources 15 (2002): 327–344. Heemskerk challenges arguments that miners are not aware of or underestimate health risks, citing their complaints of physical injury from hard labor, …

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  Solid-phase partitioning and release-retention

  2020121 · Solid-phase partitioning and release-retention mechanisms of copper, lead, zinc and arsenic in soils impacted by artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities Author links open overlay panel Carlito Baltazar Tabelin a 1 , Marthias Silwamba b 1 , Florifern C. Paglinawan c , Alissa Jane S. Mondejar c , Ho Gia Duc b , Vannie Joy …

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  Artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Ghana. Evidence to …

  201351 · Ghana’s artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector continues to grow in size and significance. Its contribution to wealth creation, employment and the economy make it one of the nation’s most important livelihood activities, directly employing an estimated one million people and supporting approximately 4.5 million more.

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  The distribution of mercury around the small-scale gold …

  The distribution of mercury in the soil, sediment and river water around the artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) area along the Cikaniki River, West Java, Indonesia, was investigated. The total mercury concentration (T-Hg) in the forest soil ranged from 0.11 to 7.0mgkg(-1), and the highest valu …

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