Responsible Gold Mining Principles
The Responsible Gold Mining Principles provide a guide for stakeholders to what we believe are the key elements of responsible gold mining across the mine life-cycle. Responsible gold mining is conducted with respect for the environment and the human rights and wellbeing of our employees, contractors and members of the communities …
Water Pollution Resulting From Mining Activity: An …
Mining and Water Pollution. Water is essential to life on Earth. A prerequisite of sustainable development must be to ensure. uncontaminated streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. Mining activities ...
Illegal gold mining: Foreigners steal Nigeria's wealth amid …
Interestingly, Nigeria had a remarkable history in mining, starting with ore mining in 1902, gold in 1914 and coal in 1916, all of which contributed greatly to its development and industrialisation.
Handbook of Best Practices in Alluvial Gold Mining – PDF
Handbook of Best Practices in Alluvial Gold Mining – PDF. Home / Publications / Reference material /. Handbook of Best Practices to facilitate adequate area recovery. 01.31.2017. Publications, Reference material. Ecology, Minería, Perú. Use of Bioindicators for Water Quality Evaluation.
Manual for Training Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold …
mining equipment, and to practice behaviors that reduce or eliminate the risk of mercury poisoning. A secondary goal of prevention effort with mining families is to reduce the level of poverty experienced by artisanal miners and educate them about ways to extract more gold from the ore and to develop and practice more efficient behaviors …
Formalizing artisanal and small-scale gold mining: A grand …
Over the past three decades, the global appetite for gold has continued to grow, driven by increased consumer demand from Asia and soaring investor demand following spiking gold prices. 6 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is prevalent in at least 64 countries (Figure 1).The estimated number of ASGM miners increased from …
GOLD MINING IN IGUN-IJESHA, SOUTHWEST NIGERIA: …
the gold bearing veins the host granite-gneiss has been hydrothermally altered to a sericitechlorite epidote assemblage (with also hematite and pyrite) (NMC, 1987). 2.2. Field Investigation and Water Sampling Igun-Ijesha area was selected for this study primarily due to the presence of gold mining activities in the community.
(PDF) Assessing the effects of gold mining on environment: …
PDF | Environmental sustainability has become a serious problem in the world. ... On the other hand, gold mining is a root cause of environmental problems such as water shortages (8.8% ...
Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) takes place under extreme conditions with a lack of occupational health and safety. As the demand for metals is increasing due in part to their extensive use in 'green technologies' for climate change mitigation, the negative environmental and occupational consequences of mining …
Land degradation in gold mining communities of …
Abstract This paper identified 37 mining sites in ten gold mining communities of Ijesaland, Nigeria; examined the forms, levels and extent of land degradation resulted from mining activities; analyzed spatial pattern of land use and finally assessed the effects of mining on livelihood of the people. The study utilized global positioning system ...
Who Manages Risk? An Empirical Examination of Risk …
This section briefly describes the means by which gold mining firms manage gold price risk and proposes a measure of risk management activity. A. Background on Institutional Practices: Tools to Manage Gold Price Risk2. Firms can manage risk through diversification, hedging, and insurance. (Merton (1993)).
(PDF) A systematic review of artisanal and small-scale mining…
Nigeria, where the sites are dominated by Islamic religious and cultural practices, low participation of women was observed, at each of the study sites visited, the male to ratio was ...
Assessing Social and Environmental Impacts of Artisanal …
Keywords: artisanal gold mining, practices, sustainability, heavy metals INTRODUCTION Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a significant economic activity in most rural areas of developing countries (Agwa-Ejon and Pradhan, 2018). It is defined as a labor-intensive, inefficient, and dangerous gold mining
CURTAILING ILLEGAL MINING OPERATION IN NIGERIA
This paper presents the loopholes and the ways to curtail the activities of illegal mining of minerals in Nigeria. KEYWORDS: illegal, mining, government, foreigners, mining rights, minerals, Nigeria, license, reform, services, monitoring. INTRODUCTION Illegal mining is the mining operation that is carried out without consent permit or allowance
Nigeria's Enduring "Gold Wars"
Drawbacks from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Nigeria go beyond lost revenue. Between 2010 and 2013, over seven hundred children died [PDF] in Zamfara State due to lead poisoning ...
Land degradation in gold mining communities of Ijesaland …
This paper identified 37 mining sites in ten gold mining communities of Ijesaland, Nigeria; examined the forms, levels and extent of land degradation resulted from mining activities; analyzed spatial pattern of land use and finally assessed the effects of mining on livelihood of the people. The study utilized global positioning system receiver …
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Waste
ASGM is the major gold mining practice in Northern part of Nigeria and is usually managed locally. Skyrocketing gold price, lack of viable alternative livelihoods, and availability of mercury at affordable cost there has been a resurgence of ASGM activities in Northern Nigeria in recent years ( Environmental Law Institute, 2014 ).
(PDF) Impacts of artisanal gold mining systems …
The study shows that gold mining removed colossal volumes of soil from the mining landscape with a significant difference among gold mining sites (P ≤ 0.05). Soil loss between the mined and ...
Chinese Gold Miners Fuel Insecurity in Nigeria
The researchers say that foreign demand drives most of the criminal markets for gold in Nigeria. Nigerian authorities have arrested several Chinese nationals since 2020 for involvement in illegal mining. "Our mining sector has not been accorded much priority by the nation's security actors until recently, when illegal mining was linked to ...
(PDF) Sustainable Mining Practices in Nigeria: A Case Study …
PDF | On Jan 10, 2016, E Oruonye and others published Sustainable Mining Practices in Nigeria: A Case Study of Maiganga Coal Mining in Gombe State | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
zation and is on a larger scale. In some West African countries (for example, Mali), small-scale mining is differentiated from artisanal mining by the presence of permanent, fixed installations that are establish. d once an ore body is confirmed. Throughout this publication, the terms artisanal and small-scale.
(PDF) ARTISANAL MINING PRACTICES: A STUDY OF …
In Kenya, these include mining of gold, gemstones, copper, quarry, sand among other minerals. In Kenya, these practices are commonly notable in Kakamega, Migori, Homa Bay, Kwale, Machakos, Kitui ...
(PDF) Assessing the Impact of Artisanal Gold Mining in Anka …
Purpose: An ongoing health crisis across a large area of Northern Nigeria has resulted in hundreds of deaths and thousands of cases of lead poisoning from artisanal small-scale gold mining.
[PDF] Effects of artisanal gold mining activities on soil properties …
Abstract The study examined some physical and chemical characteristics of soils in an unmonitored mining community in southwestern Nigeria. This study aimed at determining if the active (recently mined), abandoned mines, adjacent farmland, and a relatively less-disturbed forest re-growth region in the community exhibit significantly …
Responsible Gold Mining Principles | World Gold Council
The Responsible Gold Mining Principles (RGMPs) TM are a new framework that set out clear expectations for consumers, investors and the downstream gold supply chain as to what constitutes responsible gold mining. Working with our members, the world's leading gold mining companies, and collaborating with key industry stakeholders, the World ...
Human health and environmental assessments of small-scale …
Background This study assessed the health and environmental impacts of artisanal gold mining in Ijesha-land, Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria. Fifty-four environmental samples were collected between 2011 and 2012 and analyzed for major, trace and rare earth elements using standard procedures. Samples were collected from …
llicit Financial Flows and Con ict in Artisanal and Small
al mining activity can take place without an artisanal mining licence (AEA). Therefore, any artisanal mining without a licence is illegal in all three countries and in the whole of the WAEMU region.12 An AEA is valid for 2 years in Burkina Faso and 3 years in Mali and Niger, with the po.
Strategies and regulatory measures for Combatting illicit mining …
The methodology, literature review, and theoretical framework combating illegal mining are included in section two. Section three examines the legal and regulatory frameworks governing mining operations in Nigeria, the challenge occasioned by illegal mining operations in Nigeria, the contribution of the mining sector to Nigeria's …
(PDF) A Review of Mining Regulations and Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability of Artisa nal Gold Mining Sector Leonard L. Tampushi 1*, John M. Onyari 2 and Nzioka J. Muthama 1 1 Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies, University of ...
Effects of artisanal gold mining activities on soil …
2014). Artisanal mining is generally a small-scale practice where the basic tools and manual labor ... Development, gold mining in Nigeria is largely uncontrolled, and the majority of the ...