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Fritz, Benjamin, Carin Aichele, and Mario Schmidt. "Environmental impact of high-value gold scrap recycling." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 25, no. 10 (2020): 1930–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-020-01809-6.

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Abstract Purpose The gold routes satisfying the global gold supply are mining (74%), recycling of high-value gold (23%), and electronic scraps (3%). Besides its applications in the investment, jewelry, and industrial sector, gold also has a bad image. The gold production in industrial as well as artisanal and small-scale mines creates negative impacts such as resource depletion, extensive chemical use, toxic emissions, high energy consumption, and social concerns that are of great importance. On the other hand, almost all gold is recycled and has historically always been. In common life cycle

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Usman Kaku, Dawuda, Yonghong Cao, Yousef Ahmed Al-Masnay, and Jean Claude Nizeyimana. "An Integrated Approach to Assess the Environmental Impacts of Large-Scale Gold Mining: The Nzema-Gold Mines in the Ellembelle District of Ghana as a Case Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (2021): 7044. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18137044.

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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 miners are mostly accused in Ghana of being environmentally disruptive, due to their modes of operations. As a result, this paper seeks to assess the environmental impacts of large-scale gold mining with the Nzema Mines in Ellembelle as a case study. The stud

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Marshall, Bruce Gavin, Arlette Andrea Camacho, Gabriel Jimenez, and Marcello Mariz Veiga. "Mercury Challenges in Mexico: Regulatory, Trade and Environmental Impacts." Atmosphere 12, no. 1 (2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12010057.

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Primary artisanal mercury (Hg) mining in Mexico continues to proliferate unabated, while official Hg exports have declined in recent years amid speculation of a rising black market trade. In this paper, an assessment of primary Hg mining in Mexico was conducted, with a focus on four sites in Querétaro State. Atmospheric Hg concentrations were measured at two of those sites. In addition, trade data was examined, including Hg exports from Mexico and imports by countries that have a large artisanal gold mining (AGM) sector. Results showed that while annual Hg production in Mexico has ramped up in

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Ralph, Obase, Ngoran Gilles, Nde Fon, Henry Luma, and Ngwane Greg. "Impact of Artisanal Gold Mining on Human Health and the Environment in the Batouri Gold District, East Cameroon." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 7, no. 1 (2018): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajis-2018-0003.

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Abstract There is no Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) system for the mining sector in Cameroon, and miners are exposed to numerous health and safety risks inherent from Artisanal Gold Mining (AGM) activity. Also very few studies have addressed the health problems in AGM in Cameroon. This study seeks to create an awareness of the health and environmental issues surrounding the mining sector in Cameroon so as to foster its development. It was a cross-sectional, observational, and communitybased study involving 273 respondents from three different communities. Questionnaires and interviews we

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Kimijima, Satomi, Masayuki Sakakibara, Masahiko Nagai, and Nurfitri Abdul Gafur. "Time-Series Assessment of Camp-Type Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sectors with Large Influxes of Miners Using LANDSAT Imagery." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 18 (2021): 9441. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189441.

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Mining sites development have had a significant impact on local socioeconomic conditions, the environment, and sustainability. However, the transformation of camp-type artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sites with large influxes of miners from different regions has not been properly evaluated, owing to the closed nature of the ASGM sector. Here, we use remote sensing imagery and field investigations to assess ASGM sites with large influxes of miners living in mining camps in Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo Province, Indonesia, in 1995–2020. Built-up areas were identified as indicator

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Eshun, P. Arroja, and E. Okyere. "Assessment of the Challenges in Policy Implementation in the Small Scale Gold Mining Sector in Ghana – A Case Study." Ghana Mining Journal 17, no. 1 (2017): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gm.v17i1.6.

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In recent times, stakeholders in the mining sector have expressed concerns about the environmental degradation and the social impacts of uncontrolled Small Scale Mining (SSM) activities in Ghana despite the existence of legislative instruments that define the procedures required for the acquisition of licences and operations of SSM activities in the country. This paper assesses the challenges in policy implementation in the small scale gold mining sector of Ghana by reviewing policies on regularisation and environmental management. It further identifies challenges faced by small scale mining o

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Orihuela, José Carlos, and Victor Gamarra-Echenique. "Fading local effects: boom and bust evidence from a Peruvian gold mine." Environment and Development Economics 25, no. 2 (2019): 182–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x19000330.

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AbstractThe local effects of mining might simply come and go with mine production. In this paper we revisit Aragón and Rud's (2013) study of the Yanacocha mine, frequently cited to account for local economic effects and backward linkages, but we offer a more nuanced interpretation: first, effects fade with the mine exhaustion; and second, impacts are the result of consumption boom-and-bust dynamics. While we find it more conceptually accurate to reserve the concept of backward linkages for effects of a productive nature, our evidence reveals that unskilled services is the one sector that benef

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Jorgenson, Mica, and John Sandlos. "Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining Industries." Canadian Historical Review 102, no. 1 (2021): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/chr-2019-0049.

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By the 1930s, silicosis – a debilitating lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust – had reached epidemic proportions among miners in the gold-producing Porcupine region of northern Ontario. In response, industrial doctors at the McIntyre Mine began to test aluminum powder as a possible prophylactic against the effects of silica dust. In 1944, the newly created McIntyre Research Foundation began distributing aluminum powder throughout Canada and exported this new therapy to mines across the globe. The practice continued until the 1980s despite a failure to replicate preventative eff

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Macera, Margarita, Bruno De Meulder, and Kelly Shannon. "Cajamarca: Mapping (Post)Mining Palimpsests of the Peruvian Andes." Urban Planning 5, no. 2 (2020): 172–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i2.2797.

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Mining, in addition to other human activities and natural phenomena, has repeatedly reshaped the landscapes of the Peruvian Andes. Long-standing, significantly modified and new Andean landscapes have resulted in a complex reading of the ‘land as palimpsest’ (Corboz, 1983). In recent decades, large-scale modern mining has disturbed headwater landscapes and broader Andean ecologies, as exemplified in Cajamarca’s gold mines. This article critically reads past and present spatial transformations induced by gold mining in the headwaters of the Cajamarca Basin. Through archival documentation, fieldw

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Demers, Paul A., Colin Berriault, Avinash Ramkissoon, et al. "O6B.2 Cancer risk by ore type in a mixed miners cohort." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 76, Suppl 1 (2019): A53.2—A53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem-2019-epi.143.

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Background and objectivesMining may involve exposure to many carcinogens, including respirable crystalline silica (RSC), diesel engine exhaust (DEE), nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), radon (Rn), and arsenic (As), which vary by ore being mined. The province of Ontario, Canada has a diverse mining sector with associated exposures including gold (RSC/DEE/As/Cr), uranium (RSC/DEE/Rn), and nickel-copper (DEE/Ni), and other ores (RSC/DEE). The study aim was to examine the risk of cancer by ore type in a mixed mining cohort.MethodsFrom 1928–1987 workers in the Ontario minerals industry were required to un

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