The 'nouveau riche' and 'makorokoza': Artisanal and small …
Whereas artisanal mining is hard work that requires a healthy body, some artisanal miners are reportedly sickly and some have been hospitalized in the past. Yet, they have returned to the hard labour, which further compromises the body system. The most common illness among artisanal miners is TB, and miners justify the prevalence to their ...
Artisanal mining and its drivers in the South African context
In addition, the African Minerals Development Centre explains that the following characterise artisanal mining: artisanal mining involves intense manual labour with zero to minimum involvement of mechanisation, minimal geological knowledge, and zero to meagre start-up capital.Also, the artisanal miners are extremely mobile following mineral deposits and are …
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining and biodiversity: a
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is crucial to the livelihoods of close to 20 million people in over 80 countries, including 4-5 million women, mainly in rural areas with limited alternative economic prospects, particularly in developing countries. ASGM is largely informal, which can add to the challenge of addressing negative social and environmental …
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s response to artisanal …
The law also significantly profited industrial mining as artisanal mining operations could only be established if the technical and economic factors do not allow for the establishment of an industrial operation (article 30). In the final days of the Second Congo War, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, with support from the Bretton Woods ...
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Impact on Soil and
Introduction. Small-scale gold mining has served as a substantial means of subsistence for rural communities worldwide [].Research indicates that around 15 million people have engaged in gold mining as a result of the widespread desire to become wealthy quickly [], [].Artisanal gold extraction has played a substantial role in the economies of many developing …
Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo
The relationships between mining, development and the environment are complex. 48 This is particularly true with regard to the informal mining sector in the DRC, where artisanal mining provides direct livelihood to approximately 1.2 million "creuseurs", which implies that some 10 million people indirectly benefit from this activity. 49 ...
Condemned to the periphery: The lived experiences of women in artisanal
This article aims at exploring the social and political elements in women's practices in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the Talensi District in Ghana. This study draws on feminist political economy literature to investigate how women exercise agency in this maledominated industry to carve out spaces for participation.
Illegal mining clampdown in South Africa: treating …
Illegal artisanal gold mining in South Africa is in the spotlight again. Under Operation Vala Umgodi ("plug the hole"), South African authorities have since December 2023 been trying to ...
Six Key Factors in Formalizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Formalizing the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector would bring it into the formal sector through legal, regulatory and policy frameworks. We explore six of the key ways we can formalize ASM to bring about potential benefits to millions.
D'Souza, K. (2002) Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in …
Artisanal mining as an economic activity has imparted both positively and negatively on the livelihood of resident. Significant gaps and disparities exist in the implementation of the current Mines and Minerals Act of 2009 on the artisanal mining sector.
Ghana is Africa's largest gold producer, but it has an illegal mining …
Now found in 14 of Ghana's 16 regions, artisanal mining has become an important source of revenue and income for poor people living in rural areas.
A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Research on Artisanal …
The work also defines that geotourism in artisanal mining areas is a significant trend of the last decade, explicitly focusing on the conservation and use of the geological and mining …
Restoration of Degraded Lands and Alternatives in Artisanal Mining
Artisanal mining is frequently associated with negative social impacts including migration, substance abuse, health problems, prostitution, child labor, gender discrimination, and violence (Hayes and Perks 2012; Sovacool 2021).Therefore, there is an obvious negative impact on the attainment of SDG 15 (Gender Equality), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), and SDG 16 …
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Artisanal mining: risky yet vital, traditional yet evolving. Giselle Benites and Doi Ra navigate its complexities in Colombia, Peru, and Myanmar, asking if artisanal and small-scale …
A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Research on Artisanal …
Most of the research literature on small-scale mining is closely related to artisanal mining [34,73,74]. Furthermore, scientific contributions on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) generally expose case studies, mainly in developing countries, in which small-scale mining is a term frequently used to refer to artisanal mining activity [25,75 ...
Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR …
Here we show, in a case study performed in the town of Kolwezi, that people living in a neighbourhood that had been transformed into an artisanal cobalt mine, had much higher levels of cobalt in urine and blood than people living in a …
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How much artisanal gold is produced per year is an interesting and important question. It defines the size of the artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) economy. This is an informal economy that mainly serves the important role of supporting rural development in developing countries – just as it did in western North-America 100 years ago.
"Informal, not illegal": inside Kenya's artisanal mining industry
The sheer scale of the ASM sector is also reflected in its GDP contribution, compared to that of formalised miners. The ARM report estimates that, based on extrapolating known data for the whole of Kenya, the ASM gold sector alone contributes around $224m to the national economy, worth around 0.35% of total Kenyan GDP and over half of the total GDP …
Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining …
Abstract. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) takes place under extreme conditions with a lack of occupational health and safety. As the demand for metals is increasing due in part to their extensive use in 'green technologies' for climate change mitigation, the negative environmental and occupational consequences of mining practices are disproportionately felt in low- and …
Miners' magic: artisanal mining,
in conjunction with the surge in artisanal mining (Bryceson & Jonsson 2010). Relational ties within mining and between mining and surrounding rural settlements are being embroidered around a new division of labour and its erratic, but sometimes highly lucrative, material rewards. This article focuses on a disturbing wave of murders of albinos ...
Review: Artisanal Gold Mining in Africa—Environmental …
About nine million Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) workers in Africa and people living near ASGM activities are highly exposed to geogenic and anthropogenic potentially toxic elements (PTEs). Despite the hazards and risks posed by ASGM being well characterized, coordinated multidisciplinary environmental characterization with combined …
Transforming Artisanal Mining Can Be Beneficial …
As the quest for critical minerals required for developing clean energy and infrastructure grows exponentially, the future of mining must integrate artisanal and small-scale mining.
Impact of different illegal Artisanal Small-Scale Mining …
The widespread prevalence of illegal Artisanal Small-Scale Mining has raised significant concerns about its environmental and health impacts. This study investigates the effects of two mining methods (alluvial and chamfi) on soil physical, chemical, and microbial properties four years after mining in three municipalities of the Western Region of Ghana.
Ghana's artisanal miners are a law unto themselves: …
Artisanal mining also affects farming, cocoa production, and freshwater fishing. In the late 1980s, the Ghanaian government regularised artisanal mining to allow citizens of 18 years and above to ...
Decarbonization and social justice: The case for artisanal and …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is the primary livelihood for an estimated 40 million people in 80 countries and supports an additional 130 to 270 million people in mining …
An assessment of the impact of illegal artisanal gold mining …
Artisanal gold mining is a growing threat to savanna biodiversity conservation (Bruner et al 2001, Cabeza et al 2019).In Africa (Ghana, Madagascar, Zimbabwe), efforts have been made to manage challenges emanating from the need to mine within protected areas with minimal success (Gandiwa and Gandiwa 2012, Owusu-Nimo et al 2018, Cabeza et al …
Artisanal and small-scale mining and the low-carbon …
Paper maps the intersection between artisanal and small scale mining and critical minerals. ASM is key supplier of some, and niche supplier of large number of critical minerals. …
Artisanal and small-scale mining and the low-carbon …
This issue is gaining prominence in academic circles (Tokimatsu, 2018; Lee et al., 2020), policy-making (Hund et al., 2020, IEA, 2021b) and popular media (The Economist, 2021, The Economist, 2022).A component of the emerging storyline has been the role that artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays in the supply of cobalt, especially from the Democratic …
Original article Cobalt mining and the corporate …
For the purpose of this article, we focus on three case studies of artisanal mining organized under the auspices of mining corporations (Fig. 1). Second, this article relies on a survey conducted among artisanal miners ( n 81), gathering information on their revenue, mining trajectory and choice of mining site, level of commitment and ...
Mining what is not mine: Artisanal gold mining in Gwanda, …
Many countries across the globe have come to regard artisanal mining as an important economic sector as conventional large-scale mining (Hentschel et al., 2002).In Africa, the recognition of artisanal mining is a break from the previous decades' emphasis on large-scale oil and mineral exploitation by huge mining corporations (Bryceson and Geenen, 2016).