Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Africa. Artisanal mining is a popular term used to describe to informal mining activities carried out with little or no mining technology. Miners in this sector are semi-skilled and utilize hand-tools with minimal use of machinery, if any, to carry out their operations. The term "artisanal mining" and ...Web
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Extractives, Natural Resources Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges Image: Flickr, The …Web
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Introduction. The Africa Mining Vision (AMV), a "pathway, formulated by African nations themselves, that puts the continent's long term and broad development objectives at the heart of all policy making concerned with …Web
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1 Introduction. This chapter considers one of the fastest-growing export sectors in Africa—gold from the artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) sector. It is a sector that was largely illegal in most African countries until the 1990s and has grown from virtually nothing to exports of at least 446 tonnes of gold to Dubai in 2016, 1 a ...Web
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Gold miners are usually young men (50% are between 25 and 35 years old), with low education levels. Artisanal, hand-dug pits tend to attract low-skilled, impoverished and often unemployed people. Women and children are also important contributors to the workforce on mining sites, despite existing child protection laws in Burkina Faso and Mali.Web
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Artisanal mining has grown substantially in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years despite being an underserved market where accessing capital, markets and expertise is challenging, says ...Web
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Artisanal mining, smallholder farming and livelihood diversification in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction. Journal of International Development, 23 (8), 1031 – 1041.Web
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Focusing on Sierra Leone and Liberia, the locations of two of West Africa's most buoyant and dynamic artisanal mining sectors, we undertook an 18-month study to better understand how individuals …Web
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In addition, of the all gold that shall be processed by the refinery plant, we (artisanal miners) shall get 20% of total revenue collected and we shall get modern gold mining equipment." Acacia Mining, a British company that carried out gold exploration in Kakamega in 2013, subsequently announced estimated deposits of some 1.31 million …Web
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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 …Web
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Pact has been working to improve the ASM sector and the lives of artisanal miners for more than a decade. Currently operating in Africa, Asia and South America, Pact works in …Web
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Artisanal Mining is characterised by manual labour or minimal-to-no mechanization; minimal-to-no geological knowledge; minimal-to-no start-up capital; is usually …Web
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1. Introduction. In a global context, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is critical in poverty reduction. The ASM sector is a viable pathway for creating sustainable livelihoods and poverty alleviation initiatives, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Osumanu, 2020, p. 209; Mhangara et al., 2020).According to estimations, at least 40 …Web
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It responds specifically to calls for Boosting Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, 1 a core pillar of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV), a development manifesto branded as 'Africa's own response to tackling the paradox of great mineral wealth existing side by side with pervasive poverty', 2 adopted in 2009 by African heads of state. The analysis ...Web
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[3] Other reports show child labor in mining sites and deplorable working conditions, such the lack of proper protective equipment [4]. Being from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and led by a need to serve this marginal community, my collaborators and I decided to investigate the humanitarian dilemmas this sector raises, and we set to ...Web
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Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), as well as other legislation. Artisanal mining includes the activities of individuals using mostly rudimentary mining methods, manual and rudimentary tools to access mineral ore, usually available on surface, or at shallow depths although, in South Africa, such mining often occurs at relatively deep levels.Web
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Artisanal and small-scale 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 socio-economic status. In essence, there is a need to investigate how these activities fuel poverty eradication in Africa. Here, a …Web
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LinkedIn. Artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa has grown significantly in recent decades. Between 1999 and 2019, the estimated number of African miners engaged in this sector increased from ...Web
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Artisanal and small-scale mining are estimated to employ an estimated 200,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and over a million more are indirectly involved through trade and ...Web
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The livelihoods of 130 to 270 million people depend on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), a labor-intensive method of mineral extraction. Based on geological mapping and …Web
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Yearly artisanal output has ranged from 15,000 to 30,000 tonnes depending on price in recent years, which makes the mining cooperatives the world's second largest producer after Congo's official ...Web
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The 1998 White Paper on Minerals and Mining Policy of South Africa recognizes the role ASM plays in economic development. The legal framework regulating ASM in South Africa has mainly been adopted from large-scale mining. (Ledwaba, 2017; Mutemeri et al., 2016). Progress in the ASM sector has largely been constrained by the bureaucracy involved ...Web
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Causal risk factors associated with equipment used by artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Kadoma and Shurugwi in Zimbabwe in 2020: (a) hazardous noise exposure at a site with six stamp mills ...Web
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2. Background on the artisanal mining/farming nexus, research context, and methods. The upsurge of ASGM across sub-Saharan Africa involving a wide variety of 'labour intensive activities without mechanisation' (Weng et al., Citation 2015) has led to wide-ranging debates about the ways in which poverty-driven gold mining fits – or remains invisible – …Web
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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 …Web
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focus on artisanal gold mining as it is the main employer in the artisanal mining sector in Africa.2 The key challenge is to assess the existence and extent of artisanal and small-scale gold mining activities. ASM is a largely informal sector and, as often with informal activities, we face a paucity of data (World Bank,2019). To overcome this ...Web
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Traders in the region confirmed that much of the Sahel's artisanally mined gold is smuggled into Togo, where it is taxed at the country's lower rate, before being flown off to Dubai, mostly in ...Web
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The ASM sector is usually labour intensive with low investment levels and uses rudimentary technology and equipment to extract and process minerals and metals …Web
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These emissions contribute to the fact that Africa produces five percent of carbon dioxide emissions globally. Big Tech Efforts to Formalize Artisanal Small-Scale Mining Sector. In response to these pressures, several global big-tech companies, including BMW Group, ... have the proper equipment, and operate safely while eradicating child …Web
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2. ASM OPERATIONS IN AFRICA 3. CHARACTERISTICS OF ASM OPERATIONS 4. ASM OPERATIONS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT 5. CHALLENGES OF MITIGATING ASM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS Nature of artisanal & small-scale mining in Africa. Working Conditions: No Personal Protective Equipment or clothing. Working …Web
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coal mining. In South Africa, there is growing concern over artisanal mining (Mutemeri and Petersen, 2002; Thornton, 2014). There is an acknowledgement of the economic function that artisanal mining plays in poverty alleviation, particularly as regards the circular flow of income and its contribution to the mainstream economy.Web
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Most attention in the mining industry is focused on large companies,but in many parts of the world, particularly in developing countries,minerals are extracted by artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – by people working with simple tools and equipment, usually in the informal sector,outside the legal andWeb
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We use "artisanal mining" to refer to labour-intensive methods of mineral extraction in artisanal and small-scale mines. These mines, largely informal, have little in common with the widely studied, large-scale and capital intensive industrial mines (Bazillier and Girard 2020). Artisanal miners may threaten soils and forests as they exploit ...Web
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Women play a great role in the production value chain of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper provides a systematic literature review (SLR) of published peer-reviewed journal articles on women in ASM with main focus on participation in ASM production value chain, socio-economic and health impact of …Web
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Nigeria is via artisanal and small-scale mining, which accounts for about 0.5% of the country‟s GDP. In Central African Republic (CAR), rough diam ondsWeb
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It responds specifically to calls for Boosting Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, 1 a core pillar of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV), a development manifesto branded as …Web
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The Shamva project was heralded as a "best practice in small-scale mining" by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Footnote 9 in its early days; Hentschel, Hruschka, and Priester (Citation 2002) describe how incomes of artisanal miners rose by up to 30% in the early phase of Shamva's operations. Notwithstanding the importance ...Web
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