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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining and Rural Transformation: Critical Insights on Five Decades of Development, Livelihoods and Policy Interventions. Last update 29 November 2023. Guest Editor: Gavin Hilson - University of Surrey, UK. ... Gavin Hilson, Yanfei Hu. May 2022 Pages 93-108 View PDF. Article preview.
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is an important source of livelihood for millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), though it is small in its contribution to the total mineral production but employs a larger number of people in rural communities than large-scale mining activities do (Hilson and McQuilken 2014).It is reported that over 25 …
G. Hilson. Published 1 March 2002. Environmental Science. The Geographical Journal. This paper examines the environmental impacts of small-scale gold mining in Ghana, …
5. Newmont did not voluntarily cede lands for subsequent redistribution to small-scale miners. Rather, during the build-up to the 2008 election, Ms Esther Obeng Dapaah, who, at the time, was the MP for New Abirem, the constituency where Newmont's Akyem operation is found, requested that the company release sections of land for …
This article explores how the gold mining sector has adapted and evolved in developing countries since the onset of the global pandemic. A major criticism of capital-intensive gold mines has been…
Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector continues to grow in size and significance. Its contribution to wealth creation, employment and the economy make it one of the nation's most important livelihood activities, directly employing an estimated one million people and supporting approximately 4.5 million more.
90. See analysis in Hinton, Veiga and Beinhoff, "Women and Artisanal Mining"; UNECA, "Reports on Selected Themes in Natural Resources Development in Africa"; Vieira, "Mercury-Free Gold Mining Technologies"; Hilson, "Once …
The aim of the present article is to provide an overview of the environmental complications associated with small-scale mining activity in Africa and to outline some environmental …
Author links open overlay panel Gavin Hilson. Show more. Add to Mendeley. Share. ... 00002-3 Get rights and content. Abstract. This paper provides a concise historical account of gold mining in Ghana, from the pre-colonial period, through to the present. For over 1000 years, the Ancient Kingdom of Ghana, the former Gold Coast Colony, and ...
Section snippets Artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A Snapshot. Nearly three decades ago, the World Bank published the landmark report, Small-Scale Mining: A Review of the Issues (Noetstaller, 1987). The organization relied heavily on this document for guidance throughout the 1990s, when several ambitious multimillion …
Hilson, G. (2001) A Contextual Review of the Ghanaian Small-Scale Mining Industry. Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development, 76, 2-30. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: Occupational Health Hazards among Large-Scale Gold Mineworkers in …
معدن Hilson 2001on. ... Over $117 million in gold and $98 million in diamond product has been obtained from small-scale mining operations since complete legalization of the industry in 1989. Gold …
Gavin Hilson. Environmental Policy & Management Group (EPMG), Imperial College Centre for Environmental Technology (ICCET), Royal School of Mines, London. ... Though these important socio-economic contributions make small-scale mining an indispensable economic activity, there is an obvious need for improved sustainability …
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development is a project of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The project was made possible by the support of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
As Hilson (2001b) explains, the purpose of the Initiative, which brings together many of the world's largest mining and mineral companies, is to produce a …
Gavin Hilson. is Reader in Environment and Development, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 237, Reading RG6 6AR, UK. He carries out research on the environmental and interrelated social dimensions of artisanal and small-scale mining, mainly in West Africa and the …
mining in Mozambique Concerns, priorities, and challenges Gavin Hilson Salvador Mondlane Abigail Hilson Alex Arnall Tim Laing June 2021 ... 2016; Hilson et al., 2018; Buss et al., 2019; Sauerwein, 2020) has emerged which showcases ASM's importance in subSaharan Africa. Studies produc- ed over this period have shown that the sector
In recent decades, Guyana's gold-rich interior has been the location of numerous, mostly low-latent, conflicts. In each case, groups of Afro and Indo-Guyanese originating from the country's coastal cities and towns - popularly referred to as 'Coast Landers' - have clashed with indigenous Amerindians over control of remote parcels of land containing gold …
Abstract: Notwithstanding its prolonged existence, little research has hitherto been undertaken to determine why illegal artisanal and small-scale mining is a widespread phenomenon in the developing world. This paper profiles the case of Ghana, where clandestine gold mining activity is now ubiquitous throughout many rural areas. Despite …
Gavin Hilson a, Barbara Murck b,* a T.H. Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, ... a mine must take in order to improve the sustainability of operations. Since mining processes have the potential to impact a diverse
This study also moves away from disquisition that only tackles the socio-economic dynamics and environmental policy of small scale mining (Hilson, 2010;Chigumira, 2018;Verbrugge, 2016;Hilson and ...
There is often a lack of political will to formalize ASM (Corbett et al., 2017; Hilson et al., 2017) rooted in a bias towards large-scale mining, elite vested interests, outdated discourses about ...
mining activities on children's basic education at some selected mining districts in Ghana. The study leveraged school attendance data which was gleaned from the Ghana
The findings from the study showed that mining activities, especially that resulting from illegal small-scale mining (popularly known as 'galamsey') deplete environmental …
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4207(00)00041-6 Corpus ID: 56085691; Sustainable development in the mining industry: clarifying the corporate perspective @article{Hilson2000SustainableDI, title={Sustainable development in the mining industry: clarifying the corporate perspective}, author={Gavin Hilson and Barbara …
T1 - Gold mining in Ghana's forest reserves: A report on the current debate. AU - Hilson, Gavin. AU - Nyame, Frank. PY - 2006/6. Y1 - 2006/6. N2 - This paper examines the debate surrounding a recent decision made by the Ghanaian government to permit gold exploration - and potentially, mining - in 'protected' forest reserves.
Introduction: The rise of Africa's small-scale mining economy. The term 'small-scale mining' first surfaced in the United Nations publication, Small-Scale Mining in the Developing Countries (UN, 1972).Although the topic was very much an afterthought on the donor agenda at the time, the report nevertheless proved extremely important: it …
Mining is the process of extracting useful materials from the earth. Some examples of substances that are mined include coal, gold, or iron ore.Iron . ore is the material from which the metal iron is produced.. …
Most mining companies are committed to sustainability. Many are on a path towards corporate change that is plotted over decades and held largely separate from mine operations and corporate or line decision-making. ... clarifying the corporate perspective Gavin Hilson a, Barbara Murck a b,* T.H. Huxley School of Environment, Earth …
Small-scale mining—low-tech mineral extraction and processing—has long been an important industry in Africa. For centuries, operations have provided inhabitants of the rural, more impoverished regions of the continent with a wealth of employment benefits and, more recently, have made important contributions to mineral wealth and foreign exchange …