Small-scale mining has experienced meteoric growth in Ghana. The sectors ability to provide impoverished people with direct employment and create additional jobs in downstream industries has earned it the label 'poverty-driven activity'. Most people in the small-scale mining sector, however, operate without the requisite

Mining has a storied legacy in Sub-Saharan Africa. 1 Ghana was the world's largest producer of gold from 1493 to 1600, and large-scale mining operations commenced in the nineteenth century. 2 Mining was also the catalyst for Mozambique's remarkable development from 1993 to 2010.

Formalizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) ... Dr Gavin Hilson The University of Reading, UK. Artisanaland Small-Scale Mining • Low-tech, labour intensive mineral extraction and processing ... • Ghana/Mali –resilience • Paradoxical • Supported (link to micro-credit) • Better educational

Land Use Policy 19 (2002) 65–73 An overview of land use conflicts in mining communities Gavin Hilson Environmental Policy and Management Group, Imperial College Centre for Environmental Technology, Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK Received 14 March 2001; received in revised form 22 August 2001; accepted 28 August 2001 Abstract This article …

Application procedure for a small-scale mining license in Ghana (adapted from Hilson, 2016) Step 1. Applicant identifies Area of interest Step 2. Applicant obtains a cartographic search report from the Minerals Commission to determine whether an area of interest is free or incumbent for the applicant to apply for a mineral right. Step 3.

Artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) is of growing importance for the livelihoods of an increasing number of Africa's rural population. Therefore, the sector is increasingly being recognized by African governments, donor institutions and researchers for its role in national development processes.

Gavin Hilson is professor and chair of Sustainability in Business at the University of Surrey, UK. A global authority on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), he has provided consultation on ASM-related issues to the World Bank, the UK department for international development and OXFAM America, among other organisations.

Like Obuasi, in Brazil, gold was predominantly found in alluvial deposits in the many streams in the province of Mina Gerais. Its extraction, therefore, was ideally suited to small-scale mining, as very little technology was required. The only tools needed were a prospecting pan, a shovel and a sluice box.

Gavin hilson amdc asm workshop april 2016 ... 7 CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 SMALL SCALE MINING IN GHANA Small-scale mining in Ghana is defined as "mining by any method not involving substantial expenditure by any individual or group of persons not exceeding nine in number or by a cooperative society made up of ten or more persons ...

Gold mining is Ghana�s most valuable export industry: in 2005, US$1.4 billion worth of gold was shipped from the country, dwarfing the value of its other major foreign currency earners - timber and cocoa. However, very little of the gold revenues stay in the country while damage to the physical environment by both large and small-scale mining is inflicting an incalculable cost to ...

MINING, EXPORT SANCTIONS, AND POVERTY IN AKWATIA, GHANA Gavin Hilson and Martin J. Clifford* ABSTRACT 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

Chinese participation in Ghana's informal gold mining economy: Drivers, implications and clarificationsmore. by Gavin M Hilson. This paper brings some clarity to the debate on Chinese participation in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of Chinese nationals have migrated to rural Ghana ...

A Contextual Review of the Ghanaian Small-scale Mining Industry-(Gavin Hilson Imperial College Centre for Environmental Technology, London, UK) THE WRITER, AHMED SALIM NUHU IS A …

Trade in so-called blood diamonds is the subject of this week's meeting in Shanghai of the Kimberley Process, an international body set up to stop the flow of …

In Ghana, galamsey -small-scale gold mining -has been practised for years with unfortunate social and environmental impacts (Hilson and Potter 2005); however, the land degradation in certain areas ...

As noted by Standing and Hilson (2013), in Ghana "mining tends to display complex and at times contradictory social and economic outcomes at the local level; it may raise average per capita income, but also it can introduce new forms of inequality and insecurity" (p. 5).

Artisanal and small-scale mining is a widespread economic sector in the African Great Lakes Region, where it has an adverse impact on the population's environment. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and consider the typology of the environmental impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining, in particular, the anthropogenic influences on topography with regard to the methods used in raw ...

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In Ghana, the principal environmental problems caused by small-scale mining activity are mercury pollution from gold processing, water pollution and land degradation. As is the case in most developing countries, mercury is heavily relied upon for gold extraction as it is a cheap, dependable, portable operation for concentrating and extracting ...

Additionally, management can establish a programme for training, or involve small miners in existing training activities, where they can be educated about the potential environmental impacts of their current practices. The model example of a successful large- and small-scale mining partnership is that of AGL, Ghana.

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According to a research conducted by Gavin H. Hilson on the topic Gold Mining as Subsistence: Ghana's Small-Scale Miners Left Behind in March, 2003, the most serious problem imposed by heightened large-scale mine investment and a problem that continues to be ignored by the Ghanaian government is the mass dislocation of indigenous small-scale miners and galamsey—a label given to …

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 ...

Frank K. Nyame and Seth K. Danso, 'Socioeconomic, environmental and policy implications of alluvial diamond mining in the Birim diamondiferous field, eastern Ghana' in Gavin M. Hilson (ed.), Small-Scale Mining, Rural Subsistence and Poverty in West Africa (Practical Action Publishing, Rugby, 2006), pp. 219–26.

2011, p. 501). Years later, mining/farming linkages continue to shape rural labour trajectories and are in need of rigorous scrutiny. Smallholder farming and small-scale mining are now two of the pillars of Zimbabwe's economy. Although illegal under Zimbabwe's colonial era mining laws, which still structure present-day mining

Large-scale mining, also known as legal mining, generates more than 95 percent of the world's total mineral production and employs approximately 2.5 million people across the world.13 In Ghana, there are 19 large mining companies operating approximately 16 gold mines, one bauxite mine and one manganese mine.2 These companies are largely privately owned with a 10 percent free …

An in-depth analysis of the small-scale mining sector in West Africa, this volume examines its link with poverty, economic contribution and the dynamics of its operations and dependent communities.In recent decades, Africa' poverty-driven artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has attracted significant donor aid. To date, millions of dollars have been pledged toward the design, redesign ...

Hilson and Osei (2014) find that mining and particularly artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in SSA present enormous opportunities for employment-more than the youth unemployment. Given the ...

In Africa, Ghana is the second largest gold producer, contributing to about 5.7% of the country's GDP. The mining sector in Ghana consists of both small-scale and large-scale mining, each of which has varying environmental impacts. This paper provides an exposition on the environmental impacts of mining activities in Ghana.

The 1989 laws established a supply chain of registered actors though the market (Ghana Government, 1989a, Ghana Government, 1989b, Ghana Government, 1989c; 2006).However, Ghana's small-scale gold mining and gold market has become populated by more unregistered market actors than registered ones as actors skirt legislation and fill market gaps.

In Ghana and other developing countries, small scale mining is important economically, culturally, socially and spiritually because it plays a major role in poverty reduction and rural development (D'Souza & Hilson, 2001). Until 1985, small-scale mining activities were unregulated in Ghana as the sector was regarded as informal economic ...