Essays about: "small-scale mining"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words small-scale 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. Local NGOs combat against Child Labour : A case study in Mwanza, Tanzania

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Halima-Sadiya Ahmed Abdullahi; [2023]
    Keywords : NGO; child labour; artisanal small-scale mining; agriculture; Mwanza; Tanzania;

    Abstract : Children engage in paid and unpaid work that is damaging to them daily all around the world. They are categorized as child laborers, however when they are either too young to work or are engaged in dangerous activities that may jeopardize their physical, mental, social or educational development (Unicef 2021). READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Healing or Harmful? A case study of healing crystals supply chain and how transparency can work as a tool for retailers when developing a sustainability strategy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Linnéa Graflund; Elena Paanalahti; [2022-07-01]
    Keywords : gemstone mining industry; Green Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain Transparency; Supply chain;

    Abstract : The market for healing crystals has exploded in recent years due to increased consumer interest in the ‘healing’ qualities it may offer. The main problems within the healing crystal industry is the unsafe and unethical labor conditions among others, but the most critical part is the lack of transparency within the supply chains which leaves consumers and retailers unknowing of the actual social, environmental and economic impacts of crystals. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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