Competency oriented management for sustainable artisanal …
The continued decline of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector gold supply through the legal scheme in Ethiopia reflects sector management framework failure. The current result-based management framework tends to focus on monitoring and tracking mining activities with the main objective of collecting revenue, and it has been ...
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Artisanal mining: the struggle to clean up a murky industry
Yet this small-scale mining generates about 15 to 30 per cent of the DRC's cobalt supply, which in turn produces about 70 per cent of global output. ... gold, tin and lithium, it was in 2016 ...
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As part of the implementation of their National Action Plans (NAP) to reduce and, if possible, eliminate the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Côte d'Ivoire and Togo in response to Article 7 and Annex C of the Minamata Convention, a study tour was organised from 21 to 26 May 2023, around the town of Kara, in northern …
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A Closer Look at Colombia's Illegal, Artisanal, and Small-Scale Mining
International bodies should also review standards and propagate best practices for corporations looking to ensure their gold sources are ethically and legally acquired in the interest of cleaning up supply chains. Gold mining is essential to the livelihoods of thousands throughout Colombia and, if regulated effectively, can become …
LBMA Moves to Support the World's Artisanal Gold Miners
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Artisanal miners: A hidden but critical force in the global …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a primarily informal economic sector that includes workers around the globe who use their hands, basic tools and low-tech equipment to extract from the earth vital metals such as cobalt, tin, tungsten and tantalum, as well as gold, diamonds, gemstones, coal and more. Artisanal miners are also …
A new golden age: inside Ethiopian mining
Yet that same EITI report noted that gold mining accounted for 93% of the value generated by Ethiopian mining, highlighting a dramatically imbalanced sector heavily reliant on a single commodity. Alongside challenges often seen around the world, including the role of artisanal mining and the awkward balance between foreign investment and …
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More substantial exploitation of the region's riches dates back to the Italian invasion of the 1930s. The Italians explored the Welega gold district in West Welega, south-east of Asosa.
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Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa: Opportunities …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a thorny issue for both governments and large scale mining (LSM) companies. ... In Ghana ASM contributed 9% of total gold production in 2000, but by 2010 this had risen to 23%, with over a million Ghanaians directly dependent on ASM for their livelihoods. ... Navigating Governance Challenges in African ...
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining
One of the main areas of OECD's work in the responsible sourcing of gold is to ensure that international standards do not further marginalise workers of the informal sector. This …
"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 …
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A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining …
Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, tin, lithium, rare earth elements, tantalum, and cobalt, and any other usable commodity, for …
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1 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background and Objective Defining Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has remained a point of difference as Hentschel et al (2003) admit, by then, that common definition of ASM had yet to be
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(PDF) Overview of child labour in the artisanal and small-scale mining
Gold supply chain in Mali ... about 200,000 child miners. In gold mining children constitute 30-35 % of the total labour force in . the industry. Burkina Faso .
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Gold mining, widely practiced in Sub-Saharan Africa, presents additional problems. Mercury is used to separate gold from the soil, it is dissolved to extract the precious metal and thus dispersed into the air, which workers breathe in during operations. The remaining vapour then either settles into the ground, contaminating soil and …