R.K. Amankwah, C. Anim-Sackey, 'Strategies for sustainable development of the small-scale gold and diamond mining industry of Ghana', Resources Policy29, 3–4 (2003), pp. 131–38, and Gavin Hilson and Clive Potter, 'Structural adjustment and subsistence industry: artisanal gold mining in Ghana', Development and Change36, 1 …Web
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Email: [email protected] h Mineral Engineering Department, University of Mines and Technology, P.O. Box 23 7, Tarkwa, Ghana ABSTRACT This article critically reflects on what impact a supported and formalized artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector could have in Northern Ghana,Web
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report concludes by providing contact information for some important people involved in small-scale mining research and regulation activities in Ghana, and provides details of some important background reading. An Overview of Small-scale Mining in Ghana Historical Perspective The Ghanaian small-scale mining industry is well over 2,000 …Web
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This article offers preliminary reflections on the potential impact of COVID-19 on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities – low-tech, labor-intensive mineral extraction …Web
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DOI: 10.1016/J.JRURSTUD.2014.03.001 Corpus ID: 154273668; Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications @article{Hilson2014ChinesePI, title={Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications}, author={Gavin …Web
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The Journal of Development Studies. Abstract This paper argues that a formalised small-scale gold mining sector could ameliorate Sierra Leone's emerging 'crisis of youth'. Burgeoning pockets of unemployed young men now found scattered throughout the country, the mobilisation of whom proved instrumental in prolonging civil war in the …Web
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Section snippets Artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A Snapshot. Nearly three decades ago, the World Bank published the landmark report, Small-Scale Mining: A Review of the Issues (Noetstaller, 1987). The organization relied heavily on this document for guidance throughout the 1990s, when several ambitious multimillion …Web
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Governance challenges of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Insights from a process net-map study ... land which is a major source of livelihood for inhabitants of host rural mining communities (Gavin Hilson, 2002b; Gavin Hilson & Pardie, 2006; Shackleton, 2020; United Nations ... The respondents were asked to list all the actors involved in the ...Web
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A Review of the Birimian Supergroup-and Tarkwaian Group-Hosted Gold Deposits of Ghana. A. J. Smith G. Henry Susan Frost-Killian. Geology, History. 2016. Ghana is the largest producer of gold in West Africa, a region with over 2,500 years of history with regards to gold production and trade. Modern exploration for and mining of …Web
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Formalizing Artisanal and Small - Scale Mining (ASM) Challenges and Ways Forward. Dr Gavin Hilson The University of Reading, UK. Low-tech, labour intensive mineral …Web
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446 Gavin Hilson manner were in attendance. The ILO's rationale for the event was made clear beforehand: that employing young children at small-scale mines and quarries is unacceptable, and is considered a 'worst form of child labour'2 because of the extent and severity of the industry's hazards (ILO, 2004).Web
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Hilson, Gavin and McQuilken, James 2014. Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: ... Integrated Assessment of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana — Part 3: Social Sciences and Economics. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 12, …Web
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The basic environmental impacts of intensive small-scale mining. activity include sedimentation, river and channel erosion, dust, and noise pollution. However, the …Web
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FOREWORD by Ian Smillie, Partnership Africa Canada, Ottawa Introduction: Resuscitating the Policy and Research Agendas for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining 1. Section 1: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in West Africa - An Overview of the Issue 2. Poverty and Economic Development in West Africa: An Historical Analysis 3. Poverty and Artisanal …Web
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Professor Gavin Hilson is Chair of Sustainability in Business at the Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, and Editor-in-Chief of The Extractive Industries and Society . For the past 15 years, he has carried out research on the social and interrelated environmental impacts of small-scale mining in developingWeb
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An overview of small-scale gold mining Before proceeding with the case study, it is import-ant to clarify that small-scale gold-mining activities are not unique to Ghana, and are, in fact, wide-spread throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia (see Figure 1 for an overview of the locations of important small-scale gold-mining regions around the ...Web
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Recent interest by governmental, non-governmental and civil society organisations in monitoring, tracing, tracking and flushing out illegal mining activities in Ghana has intensified due to the fact that large tracts of arable lands, forests and water resources are destroyed by this group of illegal miners. Yet, the scale of operation, …Web
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DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURES.2014.05.004 Corpus ID: 15458859; Tackling youth unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa: Is there a role for artisanal and small-scale mining? @article{Hilson2014TacklingYU, title={Tackling youth unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa: Is there a role for artisanal and small-scale mining?}, author={Gavin …Web
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E-mail: [email protected] This paper was accepted for publication in December 2001 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, whichWeb
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Corpus ID: 231012198; Entrepreneurship, poverty and sustainability: Critical reflections on the formalisation of small-scale mining in Ghana @inproceedings{Hilson2015EntrepreneurshipPA, title={Entrepreneurship, poverty and sustainability: Critical reflections on the formalisation of small-scale mining in Ghana}, …Web
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Artisanal and small-scale mining in the literature In many geographic regions of the world, mining acts as a catalyst both for the local socio-economic development and for national economic ...Web
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Dr Gavin Hilson The University of Reading, UK. Artisanaland Small-Scale Mining • Low-tech, labour ... to support the livelihoods of communities engaged in small-scale mining? 6) What are priority areas for international training and ... • Ghana/Mali –resilience • Paradoxical • Supported (link to micro-credit) • Better educationalWeb
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Small-Scale Mining in Africa: Tackling Pressing Environmental Problems With Improved Strategy Gavin Hilson 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 …Web
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According to Hilson (2002), small-scale gold mining has led to widespread deforestation and large-scale clearing of surface vegetation in Ghana. ASM activities have cleared vegetation and topsoil ...Web
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This chapter discusses small-scale mining in Ghana in the context of two intergovernmental development indicators—the United Nations (UN) Sustainable …Web
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The aim of this report is to provide a detailed overview of the Ghanaian small-scale mining industry. Special emphasis is given to gold and diamonds, the most important …Web
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Gavin Hilson; Progress in Development Studies. Sep 2016. Restricted access. ... Hilson G. 2016: Farming, small-scale mining and rural livelihoods in sub …Web
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The temporary suspension of diamond exports in Ghana in 2006 and 2007 is arguably the most significant move to address mounting criticisms of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), an international initiative aimed at stemming the flow of rough diamonds used to finance wars. The ban, which took effect in November 2006, was …Web
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Findings from ongoing research in Mali, Liberia and Ghana – the locations of three of the largest and most dynamic ASM economies in sub-Saharan Africa – reveal that despite its proven ability to stabilize and catalyze development in the region's rural economies, that even this sector has been affected by COVID-19. ... Hilson, Gavin ; Van ...Web
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report concludes by providing contact information for some important people involved in small-scale mining research and regulation activities in Ghana, and provides details of some important background reading. An Overview of Small-scale Mining in Ghana Historical Perspective The Ghanaian small-scale mining industry is well over 2,000 …Web
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2014), the DR Congo (Geenan, 2013, 2014) and – the focus of this paper – Ghana (Hilson and Garforth, 2013). Groups of artisanal and small-scale miners, from farm families …Web
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Abstract This paper argues that a formalized and supported artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector could alleviate significant poverty in rural Malawi. It questions the efficacy of the government's decision to continue promoting a "farm first" strategy to address the country's poverty problem, given the limited capacity of …Web
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The delays in export procedures were just one of several measures taken by the Kimberley Process (Grant and Taylor, 2004;Hughes, 2006;Grant, 2010Grant,, 2011Grant,, 2013a to scrutinise rough ...Web
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the leading global source of anthropogenic mercury (Hg) release to the environment. Top-down mercury reduction efforts have had limited results, but a bottom-up embrace of cyanide (CN) processing could eventually displace mercury amalgamation for gold recovery.Web
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