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research on small scale mining activities in tarkwa
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SMALL-SCALE MINING IN THE TARKWA DISTRICT: A REVIEW …
In this paper, small-scale gold mining in the Tarkwa District of Ghana has been studied. Some entrepreneurial and managerial problems of small-scale gold …
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The impact of small-scale gold mining on mining communities in Ghana
The Ghanaian mining industry is a controversial one. Many believe that the industry has contributed greatly towards the socioeconomic development of the country in terms of employment and social ...
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Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in …
66 GMJ Vol. 20, , June, 2020 Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of Ghana* 1B. Kumi-Boateng and 1E. Stemn 1University of Mine and Technology, P. O. Box 237, Tarkwa Kumi-Boateng, B. and Stemn, E. (2020), "Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Tarkwa-
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The Impact of Artisanal Small-Scale Mining on …
mining activities often through Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM). LSM companies are perceived to be environmentally destructive and socially disruptive. However, ASM which by law is the preserve of only Ghanaians appears to be more destructive and pose a lot of environmental problems as well as livelihood challenges to local communities.
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A Case Study of Mining Communities in the Tarkwa …
For instance, respondents in Tarkwa, Pepesa, Nsuaem, Benso and Pepesa West where artisanal and small scale mining activities recorded proportions of 95.0 percent, 98.30 percent, 63.90 percent, 73.30 percent and 76.70 percent of respondents affirmed the effects of mining on the communities.
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The Need to Regularise Activities of Illegal Small-Scale …
unemployed youth to undertake small-scale mining (SSM). Most of these miners operate illegally even though the SSM law (PNDCL) 218 of 1989 and Act 703 of 2006 define the procedures required for ...
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(PDF) Sustainable Livelihoods in Artisanal Small …
This study thus explores ways of sustaining livelihoods in the artisanal small-scale mining communities within the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of Ghana.
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Assessing Potential Health Effect of Lead and Mercury and …
Further, human activities such as small-scale mining, discharge of waste from nearby communities as well as leachate from a dumping site, are the major contributing factors causing pollution in ...
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Resilience of Vulnerable Groups in Tarkwa Mining Community …
The women cited lack of unemployment and the need to take care of their families as the reasons for taking up these jobs in the mines. These jobs have no social security and the little money earned is spent on the upkeep of their family so there is none left to take care of the health conditions (severe and frequent neck pains and coughs …
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ILLEGAL MINING AS THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE …
Within the past few decades, Ghana's mining sector specifically the small scale mining subsector has been marred by controversies mainly due to its threat to sustainable development.
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Injury Profiles Associated with Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining …
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is inherently risky, but little is known about mining-associated hazards and injuries despite the tremendous growth worldwide of ASGM and the benefits it offers. The current study aimed to characterize the physical injuries associated with ASGM in Ghana to guide policy formulation. A cross …
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(PDF) The Contribution of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining …
Concentrations varied between 6.80–19.82 mg/l for water and 28.90–84.30 mg/kg in sediment at sites with extensive small-scale mining activities. At low small-scale mining sites concentration ...
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Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the …
Abstract. In recent times there have been lots of public outcry on the environmental and public health and safety effects of Artisanal and Small-scale gold …
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Assessments of Illegal Small-Scale
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) is often implicated as a source of pollution to water systems. In this paper, we explore the water management systems of a formalised small-scale mining ...
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The Need to Regularise Activities of Illegal Small-Scale Mining …
PDF | On Jan 1, 2010, Jerry S. Kuma published The Need to Regularise Activities of Illegal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: A Focus on the Tarkwa-Dunkwa Highway | Find, read and cite all the research ...
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(PDF) SMALL-SCALE MINING AND LAND DEGRADATION: A …
Abbontiakoon Small-Scale Mine is located in Abbontiakoon, a suburb of Tarkwa, in the Western Region of Ghana. The small-scale miners are mining an old waste dump of the defunct Tarkwa Goldfields ...
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The hazardous nature of small scale underground mining in …
The small scale mining activities of these foreign nationals have involved the destruction of cocoa farms, ... It also oversees research in the mining sector pertaining to issues of health and safety ... over 300 licenses have been issued to small scale miners to conduct small scale mining in the Tarkwa district. However, there are only 15 ...
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Hydrogeochemistry and human health risk assessment …
small-scale and illegal mining, nevertheless, 90% of the 20,000 small-scale miners operating now are illegal (Asklund and Eldvall, 2005). Numerous problems concerning heavy metal
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana
Scale Mining, Supply Chain AMN Research Committee ... existing ban on unlawful small-scale mining activities in the area ... Tarkwa is home to mostly "underground" hardrock gold
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Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale …
Artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) is one of the essential rural non-agricultural livelihood activities in Ghana. However, basic and rudimentary practices and tools associated with ASM...
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND LAND DISPUTE OF ILLEGAL SMALL-SCALE …
Environmental degradation resulting from mining activities is mostly attributed to illegal small-scale mining. As small-scale illegal gold mining in Ghana customarily involved the use of basic ...
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Effect of small-scale illegal mining on surface water and …
Anthony Yaw Karikari CSIR – Water Research Institute, Achimota, Accra, Ghana https: ... placed a ban on illegal small-scale mining activities in March 2017. This ban stopped both 'legal' small-scale and the illegal artisanal miners from carrying out any such activity. In July 2018, this study was carried out to examine the status of water ...
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Perception of Small-Scale Miners on Interventions to …
Original Research Introduction Studies show that artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) activi- ... the government to ban all artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) activities in the country. The ban is intended to promote ... in the region noted for ASM activities are the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality and Wassa Amenfi West District. As such, min- ...
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Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale …
Finally, to further analyse artisanal and small-scale mining activities on key land covers, and identify environmentally critical areas requiring urgent attention, three AOI representing three major land covers of the study …
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(PDF) Effect of small-scale illegal mining on surface water …
The government of Ghana responding to public outcry against the negative effects of "galamsey", placed a ban on illegal small-scale mining activities in March 2017.
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The Socio-environmental Impacts of Small-scale Mining …
The Study therefore focuses on finding ways to make small-scale gold mining sustainable by looking at the mode of operations of small-scale gold mining companies and its. …
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A Spatio-Temporal Based Estimation of Vegetation Changes in the Tarkwa
A past study undertaken by Kumi-Boateng et al. (2012) revealed similar land cover variations in degraded lands and expansion of the built-up area caused by mining activities in the Tarkwa Mining ...
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Small-Scale Mining, Environment and Livelihoods: …
The environment and livelihoods have come under severe strain in mineral-rich areas with the emergence of mechanised small-scale mining equipment, which generates more than five-fold increase in ...
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Injury Profiles Associated with Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is inherently risky, but little is known about mining-associated hazards and injuries despite the tremendous growth worldwide of ASGM and the benefits it offers. The current study aimed to characterize the physical injuries associated with ASGM in Ghana t …
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(PDF) Assessing the Environmental and Socio-Economic …
The research involved: (a) the determination of gender and generation roles in small scale mining activities; (b) the determination of the effect of mining activities on employment, education, health, agriculture and cost of living of the people in the district and (c) The identification of the areas of interventions that will eradicate the ...
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Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Tarkwa …
In recent times there have been lots of public outcry on the environmental and public health and safety effects of Artisanal and Small-scale gold Mining (ASM) and the need to monitor ASM activities for reclamation purposes. To effectively develop and deploy policy responses to the environmental and human health effects of ASM, …
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Sustainable Livelihoods in Artisanal Small-Scale Mining …
ing livelihoods in the artisanal small-scale mining communi-tieswithintheTarkwa-NsuaemMunicipalityofGhana.Using primary data from a sample of 400 heads, 19 insti-tutions, six artisanal and small-scale mining firms, and two mineral processing companies, the study finds the mining chain, from extraction through processing to sale, …
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Environmental Issues of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in The Tarkwa
Concentrations varied between 6.80–19.82 mg/l for water and 28.90–84.30 mg/kg in sediment at sites with extensive small-scale mining activities. At low small-scale mining sites concentration ...
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Movers, Motives, and Impact of Illegal Small-Scale Mining: …
This research unravels the agents and driving motivation behind the rise of illegal small-scale mining in Ghana and its impact. This is accomplished via a qualitative study using illegal small ...
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SUSTAINING LIVELIHOODS IN ARTISANAL SMALL-SCALE …
artisanal small-scale mining communities has assumed prominence in international and national discourses. The purpose of this study was to explore ways of sustaining …
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Geological map of Bonsa River and the Tarkwa-Nsuem …
A preliminary assessment of toxic element pollution caused by artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Bonsa river of Ghana as well as the influence of TOC and SO42− concentration on these ...