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Ghana''s smallscale mining sector faces complex challenges, including environmental degradation and pollution, loss of life and increased health risks, despite several years of implementation of smallscale mining laws. These challenges, generally, are known to have escalated because of illegal smallscale mining, locally known as "galamsey".
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Small Scale Mining an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Smallscale mining by the artisanal and smallscale mining sector (ASM) has expanded rapidly in Ghana. More than 60% of the total mining labor force is in this sector. The ASM in 2014 produced about 34% of exported gold (compared to 9% in 2000) making it a major sector of the Ghanaian economy and an important source of livelihood and income for ...
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The Geographical Journal Wiley Online Library
Abstract. This paper examines the environmental impacts of smallscale gold mining in Ghana, and prescribes a series of recommendations for improving environmental performance in the industry. Since the enactment of the Small Scale Gold Mining Law in 1989, which effectively legalized smallscale gold mining in the country, industrial operations ...
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literature review on ghana s small scale mining sector
Aug 16, 2018· Smallscale mining by the artisanal and smallscale mining sector (ASM) ...
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Illicit Chinese SmallScale Mining in Ghana: Beyond Institutional Weakness?
while the engagement of chinese migrants in smallscale mining in ghana has gained traction in scholarship, the extant literature pays little attention to how the relationship between the socalled formal institutions (, the minerals commission and ministry of land and natural resources) and informal institutions (, the chieftaincy and .
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Assessing the Applications of Earth Observation Data for Monitoring ...
the persistent global challenges related to the artisanal and smallscale gold mining (ASGM) sector. The paper uses a systematic literature review to identify, analyze, and synthesize various uses of ... [13]. Their study in Ghana found that between 2014 and 2017, approximately 47,000 ha (± 2218 ha) of vegetation were destroyed by ASGM ...
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Questioning the Status Quo: Can Stakeholder Participation Improve ...
various aspects of the subject such as the consequences of smallscale mining on the environment, the motivation for smallscale miners, and issues about land access among others (see [914]). What is missing, however, from the literature is a careful analysis of stakeholder participation in the implementation of smallscale mining laws in Ghana.
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A systematic review of artisanal and smallscale mining: Impacts in ...
3 days agoArtisanal and smallscale mining (ASM) activities have contributed, in most cases, to the rural development of some African countries. Practically, these activities have influenced the environmental, health and socioeconomic status. In essence, there is a need to investigate how these activities fuel poverty eradication in Africa. Here, a comprehensive systematic review of academic articles ...
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Going for gold: transitional livelihoods in Northern Ghana
Box, Tarkwa, Ghana ABSTRACT This article critically reflects on what impact a supported and formalized artisanal and smallscale mining (ASM) sector could have in Northern Ghana, where poverty is deeply rooted, the outcome of decades of government neglect. Since independence in, numerous attempts have been made to improve
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Innovation in the Mining Industry: Technological Trends and a Case ...
During the decades of the 1990s and 2000s, RD intensity of relevant mining and mineral companies, understood as the RD expenditure as a percentage of total revenues, was on average only approximately % [ 9 ]. Figure 5 shows the average RD intensity for some of the largest mining companies, as revenue level refers, during the period.
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Assessing the Challenges to Sustainable Mining: A Supply Chain ... IISTE
accessed July 2015). Most of the miners in Ghana are however small scale miners. The concept of small scale mining is difficult to have a general conceptualization and definition because what constitutes a small scale mine in country X (say the United States of America) may look quite large in country Y (say Ghana, Burkina Faso or Tanzania ...
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Sociodemographic factors affecting artisanal and smallscale mining ...
Artisanal and smallscale mining operations are no new mineral exploration strategies as far as Ghana is concerned. In fact, Ghana was formerly called Gold Coast, a name earned from its colonial authority, the British, as a result of the undisputed abundance of gold deposits in the region when they first set foot in the country ( OfosuMensah, 2010
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Environmental Impacts of Mining: A Study of Mining Communities in Ghana
In Africa, Ghana is the second largest gold producer, contributing to about % of the country''s GDP. The mining sector in Ghana consists of both smallscale and largescale mining, each of which has varying environmental impacts. This paper provides an exposition on the environmental impacts of mining activities in Ghana.
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theories on small scale mining
17 CHAPTER 2 Literature Review 22 Small scale mining Svotwa and Mtetwa (1997) contend that the mining sector consists of formal large scale subsector, the formal small scale subsector and the informal small scale or artisanal small scale miners who are primarily unregistered gold panners concentrated mainly along major rivers...
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An Integrated Assessment Approach to Address Artisanal and SmallScale ...
Artisanal and smallscale gold mining (ASGM) is growing in many regions of the world including Ghana. The problems in these communities are complex and multifaceted. To help increase understanding of such problems, and to enable consensusbuilding and effective translation of scientific findings to stakeholders, help inform policies, and ultimately improve decision making, we utilized an ...
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Putting Miners First: Understanding the Livelihoods Context of Small ...
part of its mining sector reform initiative. Today, mining is regulated by the Minerals and Mining Law (PNDCL Law 153), as amended by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment Act), 1994, Act 475, in which provisions are made for smallscale mining activities. The country''s smallscale mining landscape is diverse, as indicated by Aryee (2003).
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