Transforming Artisanal Mining Can Be Beneficial for People …
In many developing countries around the world, particularly in Africa, artisanal mining is the second or third largest employer after agriculture and retail trade. It is estimated that …
Artisanal Mining Africa
Review: Artisanal Gold Mining in Africa—Environmental
About nine million Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) workers in Africa and people living near ASGM activities are highly exposed to geogenic and anthropogenic potentially toxic elements (PTEs). Despite the hazards and risks posed by ASGM being well characterized, coordinated multidisciplinary environmental …
Solving South Africa's violent and costly Zama Zama problem
The violence and insecurity in affected areas is as chaotic and conflict-ridden as the most problematic artisanal mine sites elsewhere in Africa – including those in active war zones like the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zama Zamas are emblematic of a changing South African mining landscape. They are a direct by-product of the …
GLOBAL TRENDS IN ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE …
in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, with some of the world's ... Artisanal and small-scale mining is also the source of the largest releases of mercury, estimated at . 1,400 tonnes per year in 2011 according to the Minamata Convention.
'Cobalt Red' describes the 'horror show' of mining the …
An artisanal miner carries a sack of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, DRC, on Oct. 12, 2022. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption
African Minerals Development Centre | African Union
The Africa Mining Development Center will promote the continent's policy space to pursue local beneficiation, value addition and resource-based industrialization and harness the potential of artisanal and small-scale mining by integrating it into regional and global value chains for inclusive growth and sustainable social and economic ...
Child labour in African Artisanal Mining Communities: experiences from
The issue of child labour in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) economy is attracting significant attention worldwide. This article critically examines this 'problem' in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, where a lack of formal sector employment opportunities and/or the need to provide financial support to their impoverished families has led tens …
Artisanal cobalt mining swallowing city in Democratic …
Artisanal miners carry sacks of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 12, 2022. Some 20,000 people work at Shabara in shifts of 5,000 at a time. Junior ...
Towards a sustainable artisanal gold mining sector in South Africa …
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 …
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Africa
Africa's mineral industry is highly characterized by artisanal and small- scale mining (ASM) operations. This is so in areas producing gold, diamonds and precious/semi-precious stones. Specific industrial minerals like cobalt, tantalum, tungsten and tin are also majorly sourced through artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa.
Better Working Conditions Can Improve Safety and …
A new World Bank and Pact report finds that better working conditions can improve productivity, health, and safety for the over 44 million artisanal miners across 80 countries. The report outlines solutions to improve occupational health and safety, social protection, and fair labor standards for the artisanal and small-scale (ASM) sector and …
Shining a light on a hidden sector
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to one of the largest numbers of artisanal and small-scale miners in the world, close to an estimated 10 million, with at least a further …
Mining in Africa: Artisanal and small-scale miners will be …
Content The scramble for battery minerals points to the need to formalise artisanal mining Growing African interest to include natural resources in development plans. With its abundant mineral resources, Africa is well positioned for the global shift to using cleaner energy. The continent has a large share of cobalt, manganese, graphite …
The benefits of legalising artisanal mining in South Africa
Illegal mining in South Africa is a massive industry, mostly small-scale and artisanal in nature, it employs as many as 30,000 men, women and children. ... "The fact of the matter is that artisanal mining has become an important part of our society and our mining sector, it's a reality that we have to acknowledge, and then try to move and ...
Calls to formalize artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa
29 August, 2019 Trade unions in Africa are calling for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) to be formalized as a way of transforming the sector, following a meeting of IndustriALL Global Union mining affiliates in Johannesburg, South …
Women position in artisanal and small-scale mining in Sub …
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 …
Formalizing artisanal mining 'spaces' in rural sub-Saharan Africa…
DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDUSEPOL.2018.09.023 Corpus ID: 158164892; Formalizing artisanal mining 'spaces' in rural sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Niger @article{Hilson2019FormalizingAM, title={Formalizing artisanal mining 'spaces' in rural sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Niger}, author={Gavin Hilson and Halima …
Mining in Africa: Artisanal and small-scale miners will be the …
With the right investments, Africa could industrialise its mining sector and increase its share of revenues as global demand for battery minerals grows, experts …
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Reducing Mercury Use and Release from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015-2017) As the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) …
Transforming Artisanal Mining Can Be Beneficial for People …
In many developing countries around the world, particularly in Africa, artisanal mining is the second or third largest employer after agriculture and retail trade. It is estimated that artisanal ...
Artisanal mining and its drivers in the South African context
This article suggests an alternative, more proactive approach by exploring the drivers of artisanal gold mining in South Africa and ascertaining the responsibilities of mining companies in mitigating the drivers. A re-examination of Zama Zama mining's marginalisation could replace the current reactive ways pursued through policing and ...
Stronger Value Chains Are Vital for Artisanal Small-Scale Mining
15 April 2024, Lusaka, Zambia — An international event is taking place in Lusaka, Zambia this week, which is aimed at improving practices in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) of Development Minerals.These are minerals such as construction materials, industrial minerals and semi-precious stones the mining of which support the livelihoods …
Better Working Conditions Can Improve Safety and …
A new World Bank and Pact report finds that better working conditions can improve productivity, health, and safety for the over 44 million artisanal miners across …
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, …
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the …
In Africa, formalisation of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing activity – can help governments contribute to the achievement of the development targets linked to the SDGs (Maconachie and Conteh, 2021, Mensah et al., 2020).
Seminar on ARTISANAL & SMALL-SCALE MINING IN …
Contribute to sustainably reduce poverty and improve livelihood in African Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) communities by the year 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals. GOALS: • Acknowledge and reflect the ASM sectorial issues in national legislation, and codes;
NOVAFRICA » Artisanal mining in Africa
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 …
Artisanal and small-scale mining and the Sustainable …
Specifically, since the International Roundtable on Artisanal Mining, where again, the link between ASM's growth and poverty was made for the first time, studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. Dreschler, 2001, Hilson and Garforth, 2013) have shown that a range of people, including farmers, redundant large-scale mine labourers, …
How the world depends on small cobalt miners
The other big source of supply in Congo is so-called "artisanal" mining. Small-scale informal miners dig up about 15% of Congo's cobalt. That is more than the entire output of Russia, the ...
New interventions and sustainable solutions: Reappraising …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays a fundamental role in the national and local economies of resource-rich countries in Africa. As such, more effort must be geared towards fostering this ...
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