Essays about: "artisanal gold mining"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words artisanal gold mining.

  1. 1. Making Artisanal Gold Miners ‘Investable’ - A Novel Means of ‘Improving’ Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining? A neoliberal eco-governmentality analysis of ‘responsible’ artisanal and small-scale gold mining: the case of the Lake Victoria Gold Programme in Migori County, Kenya

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Gustav Dahlqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining ASM ; responsible mining initiatives; neoliberal eco-governmentality; investability; gold; Kenya; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Objectives: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - a labour-intensive and low-tech mode of minerals extraction and processing - has received increasing attention amidst global commodity booms and its concurrent expansion. Infamously associated with negative social and environmental impacts, responsible mining initiatives have emerged to promote, measure, and enforce sustainable mining practices for ASM. READ MORE

  3. 2. An institutional weakness? – The participation of Chinese miners in Ghana’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Enyam Joel Agbesinyale; [2023]
    Keywords : Chinese participation; ASGM; Institutional weakness; Rural transformation; Ghana; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the ongoing debate on the involvement of Chinese nationals in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector. Despite the Minerals and Mining Law, Act 703 (2006) prohibiting foreigners from engaging in ASGM, it is reported that about 50,000 Chinese nationals have migrated to rural Ghana to engage in illegal mining activities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Pueblo de mina, pueblo de ruina? : Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) formalization and environmental peacebuilding in Colombia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Ulrika Lundin Glans; [2022]
    Keywords : artisanal and small-scale mining; ASM; formalization; environmental peacebuilding; local-level peacebuilding; sustainable livelihoods; community empowerment; natural resource conflicts; Colombia;

    Abstract : High-value, lootable natural resources drive, finance and sustain armed conflicts around the world. At the same time, these resources are crucial for livelihoods through artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the very same contexts. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Impact of Country-Specific Contextual Factors on the Outcome of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act Regulating Conflict Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Oscar Andrzej Danysz; [2021]
    Keywords : Conflict minerals; DRC; adjoining countries; 3T; 3TG; Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act; armed groups; tin; tungsten; tantalum; gold; US; due diligence; supply chains; unintended consequences; mining ban; embargo; artisanal and small-scale miners; implementation; policymakers; contextual factors; social; economic; political; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The conflict mineral crisis has been ongoing in the DRC for nearly two decades, with armed groups and increased military presence have played on the tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold to fund a brutal war across the eastern region of the country. Recent international efforts to tackle such illicit trade in conflict minerals has focused on requiring relevant stakeholders involved in the mineral sourcing from the DRC to adhere to due diligence processes on their supply chains in an attempt to identify conflict-sourced minerals. READ MORE

  6. 5. Geochemical Investigation of Arsenic in Drinking Water Sources in Proximity of Gold Mining Areas within the Lake Victoria Basin, in Northern Tanzania

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Enrico Lucca; [2017]
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    Abstract : Access to safe drinking water is a challenge for rural communities in many developing countries. Drinking contaminated water endangers human health and impairs social and economic development. Arsenic (As) is a metalloid widely distributed into the environment and is highly toxic in its trivalent inorganic form. READ MORE