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  Reducing global mercury pollution from small-scale artisanal gold mining

  2019625 · Small-scale gold mining Global mercury pollution affects millions of poor people in Southeast Asia, Africa, Central and South America who, in order to provide a livelihood, resort to gold mining using primitive equipment and low-tech approaches. The final step in the gold extraction process relies on mercury to capture the numerous small …

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  Surface Mining Colluvial/eluvial mining using Chinese-made processing equipment known as “Chang Fa” Underground Mining Hard rock mining employing largely rudimentary methods of mining popularly called ‘ghettos’. Blasting is common practice in …

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  Environmental Health and Safety Hazards of Indigenous Small-Scale …

  201688 · This cross-sectional study aimed at the environmental health hazards at work and cyanide exposure of small-scale gold miners engaged in gold extraction from ores in a mining area in the Philippines.Methods consisted of structured questionnaire-guided ...

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  Trends in underground hard-rock mining for …

  202475 · Artisanal and small-scale mining, or ASM, is a largely informal economic sector that includes workers around the world who use basic tools to extract from the earth everything from gold and gemstones to vital metals such as …

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  Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A …

  2022326 · Abstract. Indonesia is host to a long history of gold mining and is responsible for a significant contribution to world gold production. This is true not only with regard to large gold mining companies but also to small-scale mining groups comprised of people and enterprises that participate in the gold industry of Indonesia.

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  Tantalum supply from artisanal and small-scale mining: …

  2024216 · Based on mineral economic considerations, both the industry and local government will eventually have to evaluate whether broad-scale artisanal hard rock coltan mining would be competitive at the ...

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  Artisanal & small-scale gold mining research field work, …

  Abstract/Summary Artisanal & Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is a subsistence level livelihood for many rural communities across the world. In Kenya it provides work for an estimated 40,000 people and produces 5 tonnes of gold per year. The impact of ASGM is double-edged with the economic benefits offset by damage to the environment and the …

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  Site specific: Heterogeneity of small-scale gold mining in …

  201611 · Study demonstrates the heterogeneity of small-scale mining practices. Reflects need for greater attention to particular socio-technical dimensions of SSM. The past decade of booming gold prices profoundly expanded small-scale mining (SSM) around the globe, with an estimated 25 million miners now participating in this industry.

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  Ghana – Big Man, Big Envelope, Finish: Chinese Corporate Exploitation ...

  2017222 · In contrast to alluvial small-scale mining in southern Ghana, in the Upper East it is hard rock mining undertaken in (relatively shallow) underground shafts and it is entirely artisanal and small-scale, at least until the arrival of SMGHL.

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