Download or read book Examining the Golden Practices of Small Scale Mining written by George Okyere Ofosu and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has often portrayed mining regions as 'informal' zones that suffer from environmental degradation problems. Water pollution and degraded landscapes, for example, have long been noted as the inevitable consequence of the operations of ASM. Such insistence on the institutional absences of ASM zones has dovetailed with a lack of academic attention to some of the 'golden' mining practices taking place there. Thus, this work seeks to (re)examine the topic of 'development' in ASM. The findings suggest that small-scale miners, contrary to popular perception, could be caretakers of the environment. In addition, emphasizing how the dynamic interplay between resources and environmental demands may come to support public policy, the findings illustrate, contrary to the dominant narrative, how the activities of small-scale mining operators can engender a win-win situation for both mining companies and local mining communities. About the author George Okyere Ofosu completed his PhD work at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. He is currently employed at Brunel University, London. His research interest spans across the broad areas of the extractive industry and international business in emerging markets.
Download or read book Examining the Golden Practices of Small Scale Mining written by George Okyere Ofosu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has often portrayed mining regions as ‘informal’ zones that suffer from environmental degradation problems. Water pollution and degraded landscapes, for example, have long been noted as the inevitable consequence of the operations of ASM. Such insistence on the institutional absences of ASM zones has dovetailed with a lack of academic attention to some of the ‘golden’ mining practices taking place there. Thus, this work seeks to (re)examine the topic of ‘development’ in ASM. The findings suggest that small-scale miners, contrary to popular perception, could be caretakers of the environment. In addition, emphasizing how the dynamic interplay between resources and environmental demands may come to support public policy, the findings illustrate, contrary to the dominant narrative, how the activities of small-scale mining operators can engender a win-win situation for both mining companies and local mining communities.
Download or read book Artisanal and Small scale Mining written by Thomas Hentschel and published by IIED. This book was released on 2003 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on studies from countries in Africa, South America and Asia, looks at small-scale mining activities which often are both illegal and environmentally damaging, and dangerous for workers and their communities. Gives an overview on the issues and challenges involved, concluding about how sustainable development can be achieved.
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Owens Peak Wilderness Study Area Tulare and Kern Counties California written by M. F. Diggles and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governing Extractive Industries written by Anthony Bebbington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. Governing Extractive Industries synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. The authors focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact, exploring the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production.
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Clear Creek Upper Big Deer Creek Study Area Contiguous to the Idaho Primitive Area Lemhi County Idaho written by Fred William Cater and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between the Plough and the Pick written by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: y global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social political-historical contexts play in shaping mineral extractive processes and practices. It shows that the people who are engaged in these mining practices are often the poorest and most exploited labourers-erstwhile peasants caught in the vortex of global change, who perform the most insecure and dangerous tasks. Although these people are located at the margins of mainstream economic life, they collectively produce enormous amounts of diverse material commodities and find a livelihood (and often a pathway out of oppressive poverty). The contributions to this book bring these people to the forefront of debates on resource politics. The contributors are international scholars and practitioners who explore the complexities in the histories, in labour and production practices, the forces driving such mining, the creative agency and capacities of these miners, as well as the human and environmental costs of ASM. They show how these informal, artisanal and small scale miners are inextricably engaged with, or bound to, global commodity values, are intimately involved in the production of new extractive territories and rural economies, and how their labour reshapes agrarian communities and landscapes of resource access and control. This book drives home the understanding that, collectively, this social and economic milieu redefines our conceptualisation of resource politics, mineral dependent livelihoods, extractive geographies of resources and commodities, and their multiple meanings.
Download or read book U S Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Gold Creek and Sperry Creek Wilderness Study Areas Malheur County Oregon written by James George Evans and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request of the U.S.Bureau of Land Management, the Gold Creek (OR-003-033) and Sperry Creek (OR-003-035) Wilderness Study Areas, comprising approximately 15,780 and 5,600 acres, respectively, were evaluated for mineral resources and mineral resource potential. Throughout this report, "wilderness study area" and "study area" refer to the combined 21,380 acres for which mineral surveys were requested. The U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted geologic, geochemical, and geophysical surveys to assess the identified mineral resources (known) and mineral resource potential (unknown) of the study area. Field work for this report was carried out in 1987, 1988, and 1989.
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Harquahala Mountains Wilderness Study Area La Paz and Maricopa Counties Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contribution of Small Scale Mining to the Miners Well Being written by Sherembi Emmanuel and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an outcome of a study undertaken by Mr Emmanuel Sherembi as part of the requirements for his M.A. (Economics) degree of St. Augustine university of Tanzania and supervised by Prof. M. E. Mlambiti. The main purpose of having the study published as a book is to let the public know the contribution of small-scale gold mining activities to the livelihood (well-being) of the rural poor households in Tanzania in particular and to the economy of the country in general.The authors are also of the opinion that the methodology used in analyzing the case may be a good referral base for other researchers and academicians studying or being interested in analyzing similar rural mining income generating activities in the country or other parts of the world where such small-scale mining activities take place.
Download or read book Small scale Gold Mining in the Amazon written by Centro de Estudios y Documentacion Latinoamericanos (Amsterdam) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Study Area Delta Mesa and Montrose Counties Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Case Studies Illustrating Environmental Practices in Mining and Metallurgical Processes written by International Council on Metals and the Environment and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication is targeted at all persons concerned with ensuring improved environmental performance, including industry managers, government administrators, professionals & academics as well as community organisations. Readers will find examples which demonstrate that good environmental performance is not only possible in theory, but can be achieved in practice through good management & improved techniques.
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Upper Leslie Gulch and Slocum Creek Wilderness Study Areas Malheur County Oregon written by Dean B. Vander Meulen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request of the U.S.Bureau of Land Management, the Gold Creek (OR-003-033) and Sperry Creek (OR-003-035) Wilderness Study Areas, comprising approximately 15,780 and 5,600 acres, respectively, were evaluated for mineral resources and mineral resource potential. Throughout this report, "wilderness study area" and "study area" refer to the combined 21,380 acres for which mineral surveys were requested. The U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted geologic, geochemical, and geophysical surveys to assess the identified mineral resources (known) and mineral resource potential (unknown) of the study area. Field work for this report was carried out in 1987, 1988, and 1989.
Download or read book The Socio Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Developing Countries written by G.M. Hilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to examine both the positive and negative socioeconomic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries. In recent years, a number of governments have attempted to formalize this rudimentary sector of industry, recognizing its socioeconomic importance. However, the industry continues to be plagued by
Download or read book Annual Report of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research written by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
