The mining of minerals has contributed enormously to most African countries' economies. However, the activities involved in these sectors have turned to hunt our environment and human life due to the lack of regulation in this sector. This paper is a review of the effects of illegal mining on the environment, the economy and agricultural …
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Those who work in illegal mines often face dangerous conditions and are subject to human rights abuses. In some regions, illegal mining has been shown to fund terrorism …
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Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, ...
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Another dangerous dimension to illegal mining is crime and armed conflict. In most of the mining communities, you will find widespread violence and kidnapping due to gang rivalry over mining ...
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Galamsey, an illegal form of small-scale mining, has emerged as a pressing environmental and social issue in Ghana.
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Illegal mining and trafficking of precious metals are often linked to economic crimes such as tax evasion, fraud, and corruption, by exploiting loopholes in regulatory frameworks. Due to the high profits associated …
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THE CHALLENGES OF ILLEGAL MINING Although "illegal mining" has no universal definition, INTERPOL defines it as an umbrella term covering both illegal extraction and trade of minerals, including the illegal use of toxic chemicals (such as cyanide and mercury) in mining activities. Illegal mining has evolved into an endemic and
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The ramifications of illegal mining are far-reaching and may have dire effects on the country's economy, investment opportunities and social security.
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Ghana, one of the world's biggest producers of cocoa beans, is facing a crisis around dangerous and dirty galamsey, or informal, mining—which experts warn could derail its agriculture sector.
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In modern times, successful mining involves cheating the sea with low-tech techniques borrowed from local fishermen. They call the practice compressor mining. It's the most deadly gold extraction method on earth and is unique to this part of the Philippines. Compressor mining is considered illegal under Philippine law, but the law …
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BBC Africa Eye meets the migrants who risk everything to go deep underground in South Africa's abandoned gold mines.
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THE CHALLENGES OF ILLEGAL MINING Although "illegal mining" has no universal definition, INTERPOL defines it as an umbrella term covering both illegal extraction and …
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In many countries, there is significant overlap between illegal logging and illegal gold mining. Criminal networks often use land cleared by illegal logging operations to establish illegal mining activities where they use mercury to search for raw minerals, like gold. Mercury pollutes nearby water sources, poisoning wildlife and local drinking ...
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In October 2015, the FBI established the Illegal Mining Initiative to disrupt TCO involvement in this illicit trade and to prosecute complicit companies. The initiative …
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Illegal mining is on the rise in South Africa and presents challenges that need to be addressed from a range of perspectives. It takes place both at abandoned mines and at operating mines, with illegal …
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The rise in illegal mining highlights fundamental social, institutional and structural problems in Nigeria's governance system. It reveals the prevailing socio-economic problems in the region ...
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Illicit mining activities don't follow the same provisions that legal mining does. While some may argue that all mining has dangerous consequences, the implications of illegal mining are much worse.
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"Gold mining is a big part of our life. We don't like using mercury but we have no choice," says Demver Suzara, president of the mining association overseeing the site. "It's dangerous. Mercury should be banned."
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Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."
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Why is illegal mining on the rise? Despite widespread media attention given to the dangers of illegal mining, there has been a surge in this activity. In South Africa, this stems mainly from an increase in unemployment, poverty and the entry of large numbers of illegal immigrants into the country.
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The heightened focus on counternarcotics operations increased the risks for these groups to produce and traffic narcotics and the move into the under-regulated gold mining sector offered lucrative …
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But experts say countries aren't doing enough to limit dangerous global warming. ... the South African government lost $500 million in tax and export revenue in gold alone from illegal mining.
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Within the past few decades, Ghana's mining sector specifically the small scale mining subsector has been marred by controversies mainly due to its threat to sustainable development.
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to illegal miners. Illegal mining can cause underground fires and fall-of-ground incidents, resulting in loss of life and threatening mine employees, mining communities and the illegal miners themselves. Illegal mining destroys the social fabric of mining communities . It forces mining companies have to spend a significant amount of additional ...
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The threat posed by illegal mining to the quality of water resources in Ghana has become a major public concern due to the closing down of some water treatment plants in the country. This study aimed...
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Deforestation and degraded forests. Polluted and poisoned rivers. Invasion of Indigenous Lands. Exposure to illness. Lost lives and endangered traditional ways of life. Illegal mining is a threat to all facets of life in the Amazon rainforest.
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Impacts for half of the world's mining areas are undocumented. As the race to extract minerals and metals for clean-energy technologies accelerates, researchers …
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Illegal mining in Ghana has a negative impact on health by contaminating the water supply and raising risks for typhoid and other waterborne diseases.
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The CSIS Future of Venezuela Initiative explores the devastating effects of illegal mining in Southern Venezuela on human rights, the environment, and security.
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By Armando J Barcena. This article describes the way in way in which continued mining in Brazil has endangered the biodiverse Amazon rainforest. Concerns about the health and the political rights of the indigenous inhabitants are also described. This article also describes how mining affects the
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Operation Mercury is an unprecedented operation in the fight against illegal mining, sexual and labor exploitation, trafficking, and other crimes. Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 200,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past decade.
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Despite labour regulations and the efforts of unions, mining accidents take the lives of thousands of workers every year around the world and seriously damage the environment. Why is mining still so …
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