Related Literature About Gold Mining Industry

Related Literature About Gold Mining Industry

Mining industry risks, and future critical minerals and metals …

This study leverages resilience theory and borrows insights from risk management literature to build a framework of mining industry supply chain resilience …

The Determinants of Stock Price Exposure: Financial …

This paper studies the exposure of North American gold mining firms to changes in the price of gold. The average mining stock moves 2 percent for each 1 percent change in gold prices, but exposures vary considerably over time and across firms. As predicted by valuation models, gold firm exposures are significantly negatively …

Impacts of mining projects in Papua New Guinea on

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), mining has been surrounded by controversy related to its environmental and social impacts for several decades. In this context, the research reported herein is an investigation of the way in which mining has impacted on poverty in two large mining regions at Ok Tedi and Porgera. We surveyed 609 …

Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the effectiveness of mining

Background Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to …

Assessment of occupational safety and health hazards …

exposure of workers in small-scale gold mining in the Philippines EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study examined the practices in the small-scale gold mining (SSGM) industry in the Philippines, particularly the working conditions of miners and workers during gold extraction and processing. It evaluated the miners' and workers' exposure to

Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A Narrative Literature

The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) 2018 states that global mercury emissions in 2015 amounted to 2220 tons, of which 49% came from Southeast Asia, 18% from South America and 16% from Africa. The small-scale gold mining industry is the largest contributor to mercury emissions with a total of 38% globally from 2010 to …

Mining and socio-ecological systems: A systematic

The mining industry has a great potential to help in achieving the sustainable development goals but it is also one of the most controversial industries. ... This study presents a review of literature related to socio-ecological impacts of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using the Drivers-Activities-Pressure-State changes-Impacts (on …

IJERPH | Free Full-Text | An Integrated Approach to Assess …

The mining industry is a significant asset to the development of countries. Ghana, Africa's second-largest gold producer, has benefited from gold mining as the sector generates about 90% of the country's total exports. Just like all industries, mining is associated with benefits and risks to indigenes and the host environment. Small-scale …

PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE: HOW HAS THE GOLD …

To help bridge this major gap in the literature, a study was conducted in which the environmental and socioeconomic initiatives undertaken by the world's 20 largest gold …

The mining industry as a net beneficiary of a global tax on …

Economic value of commodities per tonne of CO2 emitted. Figure 2 shows the economic value per tonne of CO 2 for select energy transition metals (copper, nickel, lead, zinc, silver, gold, platinum ...

Creating the zero-carbon mine | McKinsey

The mining industry is at a tipping point where sustainability and decarbonization are top items on CEOs' agendas. To achieve a 1.5°C climate-change target by 2050, the mining industry will need to reduce direct CO 2 emissions to zero. Encouragingly, our analysis shows that solutions to decarbonize the majority of …

Assessing impacts of mining: Recent contributions from GIS …

Such studies have the potential to counter or corroborate the mining industry's claims, ideally free from conflicts of interest, real or perceived. They can therefore assist in adjudicating on mining-related conflicts, particularly as public trust in mining companies is often very fragile (Miranda et al., 2003; Moffat and Zhang, 2014). …

Research trends in mining accidents study: A systematic literature …

To help mining owners deal with post-mining accidents in the Marikana platinum mining industry (Engelbrecht and Thomas, 2017) Policy-makers: i. To construct policies related to the mining industry to ensure mining operations run smoothly (Düzgün and Leveson, 2018, Lyra, 2019) ii.

Potential implications of gold-mining activities on

Gold mining and other mining activities globally, especially in developing nations, remain controversial due to evidence of a noticeable impact on the local …

Deloitte Global mining and metals report explores key …

NEW YORK, NY, USA, 30 JANUARY 2024—Released today, the 16th annual edition of Deloitte Global's mining and metals report, Tracking the trends 2024, explores key trends facing mining and metals companies and how the sector is navigating a complex matrix of challenges, opportunities, expectations, and demands.Each trend …

Operations research for mining: A classification and literature review

PDF | On Jan 1, 2011, E. Kozan and others published Operations research for mining: A classification and literature review | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Financial and Operational Risk Management: Inventory Effects

Downloadable! Financial and operational risk management are central concepts at the intersection of finance, operations, and commodity risk management. Yet, empirical evidence on their effects on inventory is lacking. We use a fine‐grained data set comprising the financial and operational risk management decisions of gold miners from 2003 to …

Political settlements, the mining industry and corporate …

1. For useful reviews of this literature see Laws and Leftwich (2012) and Hickey (2013).. 2. For this paper, CSR is an "umbrella term" taking in the voluntary and quasi-voluntary actions undertaken by mining companies to mitigate their environmental or social impacts or improve the social or environmental wellbeing of the areas in which …

Integrated Assessment of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining …

This report is one of three synthesis documents produced via an integrated assessment (IA) that aims to increase understanding of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Ghana. Given the complexities surrounding ASGM, an IA framework was utilized to analyze economic, social, health, and environmental data, and co …

Environmental Impacts of the Mining Industry : A literature review

PDF | On Oct 29, 2019, Anura Widana published Environmental Impacts of the Mining Industry : A literature review | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research …

The scientific literature on mining and biodiversity is also scarce, with less than 1% of papers in leading conservation journals referring to mining-related threats (electronic supplementary material, …

The socio-ecological impacts of mining on the well-being of …

The mining industry is responsible for extracting and processing various minerals and other natural resources, including coal, iron ore, gold, copper, and ... This study presents a systematic review of the literature related to the socio-cultural and ecological impacts of mining on Indigenous peoples in Australia using the Millennium ...

Evaluating the environmental and economic impact of mining …

However, small-scale gold mining has been the major cause of loss of vegetation cover and mass deforestation in Africa (Cullen-Unsworth et al., 2014; Owen and Kemp, 2013). In small-scale illegal mining, open-pits and trenches are left uncovered, and this takes several years for the land to regain its productivity and become useful.

Economic policy uncertainty, COVID-19 and corporate …

Uncertainties related to exploration and engineering that arise at the start of a mining project are the primary sources of risk for gold mining companies ... Our study has several contributions to the literature. It is the first empirical study that examines the impact of EPU on the corporate investment decisions of the gold mining industry ...

A review on the impact of mining operation: Monitoring, …

In the annual publication of the World Mining Data, 65 mineral commodities are produced from 168 countries. This data are statistically summarized and evaluated by World Mining Data [20].The world production of iron and ferrous alloy metals in metric Tons, for five years are given in Table 1.The world production of non-ferrous metals in …

Gold Production and the Global Energy Transition—A …

A net-zero emissions, future global gold industry, is possible. Major gold producers are targeting net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050, coupled with a lower …

Gold mining's environmental footprints, drivers, and future …

Small-scale gold mining activities directly cause three main environmental footprints: land degradation, water pollution and diversion, and deforestation. Significant land deterioration was observed due to the use of excavators and other sophisticated …

Mining | Free Full-Text | Environmental Impacts of Gold …

Gold mining has serious negative environmental impacts, especially due to pollution emanating from tailings storage facilities (TSFs, tailings dams, slimes dams). …

(PDF) The Impact of Mining on the Ghanaian Economy: A …

The mining industry in Ghana operates within a r egulatory framework that governs mining activities. The The Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) and subsequent amendments provide the legal ...

Environmental Regulations in the Mining Sector and Their …

6.2 Literature Review . This study relates to several strands of literature. First, it connects to the literature on the impact of environmental regulations on the development and diffusion of clean technologies (i.e. technologies that aim to reduce the environmental impact of production processes, such as energy-efficient, water-saving or …