Improving Access to Finance for Artisanal and …
08 November 2022. Improving Access to Finance for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Miners. Supported by: Led by: In partnership with: Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold …
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Questioning the Status Quo: Can Stakeholder Participation Improve …
Ghana's small-scale mining sector faces complex challenges, including environmental degradation and pollution, loss of life and increased health risks, despite several years of implementation of small-scale mining laws. These challenges, generally, are known to have escalated because of illegal small-scale mining, locally known as …
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Mining co-operatives: A model to establish a network for sustainability
These organizations have been getting increasing importance to support diggers through initiatives and policies to improve small-scale mining activities. ... "mining cooperatives" that rather represent the entrepreneurial and institutional choice of a structured sector for small- and medium-scale miners to reduce negative socio ...
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Understanding and improving policy and regulatory …
We employ framed lab experiments with 200 small-scale gold miners in Colombia's Pacific to explore leaders' impacts on equity and efficiency in collective responses to external incentives. Allowing communication before individual choice, which raises efficiency but not always equity, we can identify emergent leaders of groups' …
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Safety & health in small-scale surface mines A handbook
world's 13 million or so small-scale miners — many of whom work in surface mines — and their communities. Progress in dealing with diseases and accidents affecting small-scale miners will require a better understanding of the risks and hazards and of the practices and behaviour to prevent them. Better data will also be
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Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale …
Artisanal and small-scale miners' health and the health of their families are further eroded by corruption, malnutrition, violence, lack of access to health care and lack of education. ... It is of paramount significance for governments to put systems in place to improve access to health services for artisanal and small-scale miners [57, 58 ...
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Improving artisanal miners' working conditions and …
Artisanal mining refers to small-scale mining using essential tools and techniques, usually by individuals or small groups. ... artisanal miners can improve their overall well-being and ...
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The Livelihood of Artisanal and Small-Scale Miners and …
This article examines the impact of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) on livelihood in mining communities in Rwanda (Rutsiro) where wolframite and coltan are mined. The paper discusses the development of ASM and other entrepreneur activities, in particular agriculture. With ASM activities, there is environmental degradation on the one …
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Working with legal small‐scale miners: Implications for …
But there is little research on legal small-scale miners' (SSMs) perceptions of their environmental impacts, or on demographic characteristics that should inform development programmes. Based on a survey of 137 legal SSMs, this study analysed the perceptions and practices of legal SSMs within the context of an accountability, rule of …
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US$180m programme launched on mining sector | United …
New $180-million Global Environment Facility programme will improve health conditions for artisanal miners across eight countries, while slashing mercury emissions harmful to the environment The artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector accounts for 20 per cent of the world's annual gold production; As many as 15 million …
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In conversation with Johanna Linus: small-scale …
Additionally, small-scale mining is contributing to women empowerment as the sector employs women mainly in the marketing and selling of the products. At the national level, small-scale mining is …
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What needs to be done to improve ASM in Zimbabwe
Thus, the official distinction between artisanal miners and small-scale miners in Zimbabwe is based on the scale of operation and degree of mechanisation. The law expects both categories of miners to be registered. ... trends, new technologies being developed and used to improve this crucial sector, as well as new opportunities and …
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Human health and safety in artisanal and small-scale …
These opportunities and limitations demonstrate that although an artisanal and small-scale mining reserve could be one way to formalize the sector and support rural livelihoods, there are clear barriers to overcome to improve the interactions among governments, companies, artisanal and small-scale miners, and local communities.
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Ghana
miners, who under current law are working illegally, often fill gaps in the supply of finance, equipment and technical knowledge. The greatest barriers to formalisation are a lack of land and access to finance — and getting a licence the most significant challenges facing Ghanaian small-scale miners and communities identified through
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To achieve decent work, we must improve the health …
OPINION July 13, 2021. To achieve decent work, we must improve the health and safety of 'hidden' artisanal miners. Demetrios Papathanasiou and Kurt MacLeod Thomson Reuters Foundation. Each …
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Artisanal small-scale mining and livelihood assets in rural southern
Abstract. This study examines the impacts of artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) on livelihood assets using a representative data from individuals in major mining communities as well as non-mining ...
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"I am formal, what comes next?": A proposed
If formal miners lack information and guidance on how to remain in compliance, implement responsible mining practices, and grow as entrepreneurs, then becoming formal will have marginal (if any) impacts. Partnerships can create valuable opportunities for artisanal and small-scale miners to improve their operations.
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How to make small-scale mining sustainable
Small-scale miners produce about 85% of the world's gemstones and 20-25% of all gold. For Villa, the first step is to change minds. Governments and big business need to recognise small-scale ...
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining | Pact
In Tanzania, we are helping women miners earn fair prices for artisanally mined gemstones. In Mali and Sierra Leone, we are reducing the use of mercury in small-scale gold mining. We also improve governance in the countries where we work, strengthening local, regional and national institutions.
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PLAUSIBLE POLICY FRAMEWORK TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE ARTISANAL AND SMALL
In many countries, 70 to 80 per cent of small-scale miners are informal. Informality underpins the sector's poor performance and traps the majority of miners and communities in cycles of poverty ...
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(PDF) Artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania and …
The mineral sector, especially its small-scale subsector, has become significant in the emerging economies of the Global South. Tanzania is the focus of this policy exposition paper because, aside ...
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Promoting environmental sustainability in the artisanal and small-scale
became 'perceived by small-scale miners as a strategy for generating revenue for state actors' (Spiegel 2017: 204). Therefore, a phased approach to support and enforcem ent, combined with
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DEVELOPING ARTISINAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING …
The month of July has seen significant steps being taken by the Government of Zimbabwe in improving the regulation and ease of business in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. After ...
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Characterising the interface between large and small-scale …
There are many scenarios that can develop when the large and small-scale mining sectors form an interface. This paper focuses on the complexities of large-scale and artisanal and small-scale mining ("LSM" and "ASM") operating within a shared physical environment. The term "interface" is used to characterize the many points at which ...
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Rethinking the concept of small-scale mining for …
Modern small-scale mining (SSM) is extraction from ore or mineral deposits using low-impact, potentially short-term, small-footprint, regulated mining operations …
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND LAND DISPUTE OF ILLEGAL SMALL-SCALE …
small-scale mining activities and disempowerment of illegal small-scale miners for whom obtaining a license is a quasi-insurmountable task. The Small-scale gold mining sector has a positive socio ...
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WIDER Working Paper 2021/119-Promoting …
improve health and safety conditions ; regulate and improve labour standards; reduce conflicts with large-scale mining (LSM) projects; and/or reduce the negative environmental impacts of mining. ... became 'perceived by small-scale miners as a strategy for generating revenue for state actors' (Spiegel 2017: 204). Therefore, a phased ...
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Determinants of health and health needs assessment of
Kadoma District is located approximately 150 km west of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. The target population consisted of all 30.000 estimated artisanal and small-scale miners in Kadoma District (Bose-O'Reilly et al., 2004; ZimStat, 2012). All respondents who identified themselves as an artisanal and small-scale gold miner were. Results
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Towards a sustainable artisanal gold mining sector in South …
Land use disputes between small- and large-scale miners: improving conflict management; M.L. Barreto et al. ... Furthermore, the mining industry's concentration on water use, particularly for small-scale miners, ignores the legacy impacts of such mines or the long-term effects of small-scale mining. Even for SSMs, it is suggested that there …
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Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review …
Artisanal and small-scale miners in Uganda usually work on a subsistence basis, where they are only able to meet basic daily needs. They have little or no ability to save money, nor any spare income for payment of loan or lease costs. ... Improving access to finance and shortening the gold supply chain may earn miners more profits and …
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