The findings from the study showed that mining activities, especially that resulting from illegal small-scale mining (popularly known as 'galamsey') deplete environmental resources such as …
This paper examines sustainable development in the corporate mining context, and provides some guidelines for mining companies seeking to operate more sustainably. There is now a burgeoning literature that examines sustainable …
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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 earnings.
Small-scale mining in Ghana, as in most developing countries, was for decades treated as an informal industrial sector, employing thousands of people but featuring largely rudimentary, …
The study aimed at examining the socio-economic effects of artisanal and small-scale mining on the mining communities in northern Ghana. The approaches that were used to gather and …
In South Kivu Province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of new technologies in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has proliferated over the course of the last decade.
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 having passed a …
The signatories, including jewellers and license holders, made it clear that they do not want Mining_in_Latin_America_Ch10_1pp.indd 185 26/03/16 9:49 AM 186 Gavin Hilson and James McQuilken 'mass-balancing,' and demanded 'a Fairtrade Gold product that is both traceable from source and socially empowering for small-scale mining communities ...
This paper reviews a series of alternative lixiviant systems for the recovery of gold from ores and concentrates. For over 100 years, cyanide has been the leach reagent of choice in gold mining ...
Hilson-EnvironmentalImpactSmallScale-2002 - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document summarizes an article that examines the environmental impacts of small-scale gold mining in Ghana. It identifies problems like mercury pollution and land degradation that have resulted from this industry. While small-scale gold mining provides …
promote the expansion of large-scale gold mining through foreign investment. Confronted with the challenge of resuscitating a deteriorating gold mining industry, the government introduced a number of tax breaks and policies in an effort to create an attractive investment climate for foreign multinational mining companies.
In 2001, four mining companies were awarded mineral exploration. 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. In 2001, four mining companies were awarded mineral exploration . × ... (Hilson & Pardie, 2006). As a ...
IDPR, 31 (3) 2009 Johanna Carstens and Gavin Hilson Mining, grievance and conflict in rural Tanzania This paper provides an extended analysis of the tensions that have surfaced between large-scale mine operators and artisanal miners in gold-rich areas of rural Tanzania. The literature on grievance is used to contextualise these disputes, the ...
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 Guianas.
(DOI: 10.1016/S0301-7516(01)00071-0) This article examines the business practicality of integrating an environmental management system (EMS) into mining and related operations, describes how it can contribute to cleaner production (CP) in the industry, and provides guidelines to facilitate implementation. An EMS, which is the component of the overall management …
The paper concludes by presenting a case study of two Canadian mining companies, Rio Algom and Placer Dome Inc. — the management of both of which has been active in improving the sustainability of mine operations — in an attempt to illustrate how selected mining companies are embracing sustainable development at the corporate level.
This paper reviews the literature on the linkages between subsistence agriculture and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)—low-tech mineral extraction and processing—in Sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses specifically on the economic impact of this symbiosis on the region's rural s and the policy treatment of this very important phenomenon.
Hilson, G. (2001). MMSD Working Paper No. 76 A Contextual Review of the Ghanaian Small-scale Mining Industry. . Available at https://
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…
AMD has become a brand-new environmental concern in Ghana with the start of open pit mining in 1990 (Hilson, 2002). Waste rocks that were later discovered to produce acid were dumped around the ...
In recent years, a number of academic analyses have emerged which reflect critically on why most artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities–low tech, labour-intensive, mineral extraction and processing– occur in informal 'spaces'. This body of scholarship, however, is heavily disconnected from work being carried out by policymakers and donors who, …
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 mining companies — …
TL;DR: The authors examines the causes and impacts of land use conflicts between large-scale mines and community groups, and identifies a series of (land use) conflict resolution strategies for mine management, arguing that most of the unavoidable environmental problems that occur at sites are largely dismissed by locals, but that poor communications and highly preventable …
Sand mining is a type of open-cast mining that provides material for the construction sector in Ghana. The construction sector in the coastal areas of Ghana relies heavily on coastal sand …
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
This paper examines the environmental impacts of small-scale gold mining in Ghana, and prescribes a series of recommendations for improving environmental performance in the industry. Since the enactment of the Small Scale Gold Mining Law in 1989, which effectively legalized small-scale gold mining in the country, industrial operations, collectively, have made …
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Almost two decades ago (Hilson, 2001), there had already been calls by scholars to investigate how mining firms are defining sustainable development of their mining operations. …
2 A Contextual Review of the Ghanaian Small-scale Mining Industry Gavin Hilson Environmental Policy and Management Group (EPMG) Imperial College Centre for Environmental Technology Royal School of Mines ... mining activities in Ghana remained largely unregulated and received little, if any, support from governmental bodies. This, however ...
Hilson, G. (2016) Artisanal and small-scale mining and agriculture: Exploring their links in rural sub-Saharan Africa. IIED, London. Product code: 16617IIED ISBN: 978-1-78431-329-6 Printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based inks. Photo caption: Artisanal miners in Mali. Photo credit: G Hilson. International Institute for Environment and ...
DRAFT (Paper Accepted for Publication) Four Decades of Support for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Review Gavin Hilson* and James McQuilken Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom * Corresponding author Phone: +44 (0)1483 686326 Email: g.m.hilson@surrey ...
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Objective: This study examined the prevalence and underlying risk factors to work-related injuries, common illnesses, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) usage among mineworkers in …
University of Surrey Business School - Cited by 17,465 - small scale mining - poverty - sub-Saharan Africa - gold ... G Hilson, A Hilson, R Maconachie, J McQuilken, H Goumandakoye. Geoforum 83, 80-90, 2017. 268: 2017 'Once a miner, always a miner': Poverty and livelihood diversification in Akwatia ...
Gavin Hilson. Lecturer in Environmental Planning at the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University (Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WA, Wales, UK), and a Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University.