mining in northern ghana and its health effects

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  Understanding the impacts of mining on local environments …

  2024321 · Mining companies typically invest directly in communities through employment, road construction, and sometimes even by building or investing in schools, stadiums, or health clinics. Indirectly, mines can have spillover effects in the economy since miners might support local restaurants, hotels, or stores.

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  The footprints of galamsey in Ghana: The Western Region …

  2014101 · Within the small-scale gold mining sector is “galamsey”, a local term used in Ghana for illegal or unregulated gold mining operations. Illegal gold mining operations are criticised heavily throughout Ghana due to their detrimental environmental effects, which many believe outweigh any possible economic and cultural justifications .

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  Ghana’s agriculture sector: challenges and opportunities

  2022110 · Agriculture is a crucial component of Ghana’s economy which contributes around 20% to its Gross Domestic Product, provides employment for almost half its workforce, and supplies two-thirds of the raw materials used in its manufacturing sector (excluding oil). Cocoa, the country’s major cash crop and principle agricultural export, …

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  (PDF) Small Scale Gold Mining and …

  200231 · Several authors reviewed mine environment/health impacts in Ghana others showed the presence of PHEs/essential de ciencies failing to link disease-causing-elements outcomes (Emmanuel et al., 2018

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  [PDF] The Effects Of Illegal Gold Mining On The Education Of …

  The issue concerning children involvement in the burgeoning artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) economy of Ghana continues to get the maximum attention both locally and internationally (Hilson, 2008). This has prompted Sociologists as well as other social scientists to seek to unravel the root causes of this social phenomenon. Also, sociologists …

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  Assessing potential health effect of lead and mercury and …

  202191 · Influence of small-scale gold mining and toxic element concentrations in Bonsa river, Ghana: a potential risk to water quality and public health Environ. Earth Sci. , 17 ( 2016 ) , 10.1007/s12665-015-5000-8

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  Ghana’s illegal mining continues because the rules and …

  2022111 · The study identified two key related factors that drive illegal mining in Ghana. First, the mines are transient but getting a mining licence is time-consuming. Second, the regulatory framework ...

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  The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana

  2021810 · In Ghana, gold mining is conducted by way of industrial-scale mines, as well as smaller artisanal mines, locally known as Galamsey. While this industry has provided economic benefits to local communities, the environmental and health impacts of this industry can be devastating ( Hilson, 2002 ). Exploration and extraction of surface mining ...

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  The dynamics and livelihood implications of illegal mining in Ghana…

  202311 · Abstract. Discourses on “illegal” or informal small‐scale mining (galamsey) have presented it largely as a menace. Using Ghana as the focus of our study, we present a counter‐narrative to ...

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