Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it may also cause conflict, not least …
Get More2. The many ways mining activities impact biodiversity. Mining affects biodiversity at multiple spatial scales (site, landscape, regional and global) through direct (i.e. mineral extraction) and indirect processes (via industries supporting mining operations, and external stakeholders who gain access to biodiversity-rich areas as the result of mining).
Get MoreIllegal gold mining activities contribute tremendously to the local economy of the communities within which the practice is conducted. Despite such developments, its activities come with several environmental, economic, developmental and societal and educational challenges that governments, environmentalists, and educationalists have fought several …
Get MoreIt is mining on a massive scale, highly mechanised and dependent on cutting-edge technology but powered by thousands of workers – more than 10,000 at TFM – who, like Pierre, are employed as ...
Get More2. The mining sector in Africa 6. Significance of the mining sector in Africa -Africa is well endowed with mineral resources. It harbours the world's largest mineral reserves of platinum, gold, diamonds, chromite, manganese, and vanadium1. Table 1 illustrates Africa's mineral potential and production in global terms.
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Get Morespecialise in linking local priorities to global challenges. IIED is based in London and works in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, with some of the world's most vulnerable people. We work with them to strengthen their voice in the decision-
Get MoreThe Missing Ethics of Mining [Full Text] For a special EIA interview between Siegel and journal editor John Tessitore, click here. In the middle of the 1980s the pastoralists of Essakane, Burkina Faso, were dying. Drought gripped the drylands of West Africa, crippling peoples' seminomadic livelihoods of millet farming and goat herding.
Get MoreOccupational Hearing Loss for Platinum Miners in South Africa: A Case Study of Data Sharing Practices and Ethical Challenges in the Mining Industry December 2021 International Journal of ...
Get Moreenhancing the sustainability of mining in South Africa. Initiatives introduced by the South African mining industry to improve safety in the country's mines, have resulted in a more than 50% reduction in fatalities. The mining industry has adopted a zero harm policy and wellness of employees as a top priority.
Get MoreAfrica accounts for around 30 percent of the world's mineral resources but attracts only around 15 percent of global exploration spend. For international mining companies and investors, 'African agency' is often synonymous with state intervention, resource nationalism, and risk amid unquestionable opportunity.
Get MoreDoing business in Africa is associated with diverse challenges and risks and must accordingly be founded on a strong legal base. LEX Africa is an alliance of leading law firms with over 600 ... acknowledging the LEX AFRICA Guide to Mining in Africa 2019, as the source.
Get Morerelated macroeconomic risks are front of mind for mining executives. This is leading the industry players to focus on their own house, getting the basics in order and reducing costs or looking at technology to drive growth, productivity, and greater efficiency. Equally noteworthy is the challenge for capital. In the past,
Get MoreIncreasingly, the generic set of international standards that are used to manage cases of DIDR are being tested by the unique challenges posed by mining-induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR). In this article the authors provide a critical appraisal of current thinking and practice relating to MIDR.
Get MoreEnvironmental pollution is a growing problem worldwide, but the levels of contamination are different in different parts of the world. Even though industries, automobiles, power plants, s and agricultural activities continue to emit significant amounts of air pollutants, air pollution has decreased in Europe over the last decade (Guerreiro et al. 2014).
Get Morekey journals related to climate, environmental and forest policy issues in the tropics, and country-level reports on REDD+. The refined search, together with our own experi-ences, enabled an understanding of the particular features of REDD+ in Africa. Furthermore, these sources were used to identify the challenges African countries have faced or
Get MoreSouth Africa: Mining Laws and Regulations 2022. ICLG - Mining Laws and Regulations - South Africa covers common issues in mining laws and regulations – including the acquisition of rights, ownership requirements and restrictions, processing, transfer and encumbrance, environmental aspects, native title and land rights – in 15 jurisdictions.
Get MoreAfrican gold mining industry by P.N. Neingo* and T. Tholana* /6(171 Mining companies globally are currently facing severe economic and financial challenges. In addition to global challenges, the South African mining industry has to face other operational challenges that are unique to the country and which threaten the survival and ...
Get Morebe finite, Africa is the object of flattering attention . Those states whose economies depend on this primary sector see the prospect of having greater resources to finance their societies in their movement towards sustainable development. But for this opportunity to be seized, a number of challenges need to be met. 1 .
Get Morethousands of sites in Africa contaminated by mining and associated mine dumps such as tailings and slag material. On the other hand, the number of studies focused on the impacts of mining and mineral processing on the environment and human health in Africa have increased significantly during the last decade. However,
Get MoreChinese investment in mines in Africa between 2005 and 2013. 18 According to the Heritage Foundation, the value of Chinese mining projects in Africa since 2005 now reaches USD 15 billion, an amount that according to the data from China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) exceeds China's investment in Africa in all sectors.
Get More1.1 Environmental and Health Issues in Gold Mining Areas 9 1.2 What Is a Mining Community? 12 1.3 How Remote Sensing Informs Agricultural Production 21 3.1 Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining 70 4.1 Small-Scale Mining Poses Challenges for Identifying Impacts of Large-Scale Mines 99 4.2 Effect of a Mine Opening on Access to
Get MoreMediterranean Journal of Social Sciences MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol 5 No 7 May 2014 177 Implementation Challenges of Performance Management System in the South African Mining Industry Rankadimeng Percy Job Seotlela MBA Graduate School of Business & Government Leadership, North West University – Mafikeng Campus, South Africa …
Get MoreMining in South Africa: the challenges and the opportunities 2 September 2016 18 • Non-gold mining sector can grow at 3-5% pa, resulting in more balanced country growth rate (double size of non-gold mining by 2028). • If mining had grown at same pace as rest of economy between 1994 and 2013, country's growth rate would have been 4% (not 3.2%)
Get MoreMining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it may also cause conflict, not least …
Get MoreWhile the authors consider this attention important, their work on artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana – and West Africa more broadly – reveals that for many miners, Covid-19 is 'just' another interruption to their lives and lifeworlds which are chronically affected by interruptions of different scales, magnitudes and temporalities.
Get MoreResource Based Conflicts and Political Instability in Africa: Major Trends, Challenges and Prospects International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE) Page 73 brought about death and human sufferings, engendered hate and divided nations and families.[8]
Get MorePDF | On Jan 1, 2004, Daniel Limpitlaw published Key Challenges Facing The Mining And Minerals Sector In South Africa | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Get MoreFighting for a healthy environment in South Africa's coal mining communities can be perilous. Birgit Schwarz talks to Robby Mokgalaka, Coal Campaign manager at groundWork, a South African ...
Get MoreWhile the authors consider this attention important, their work on artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana – and West Africa more broadly – reveals that for many miners, Covid-19 is 'just' another interruption to their lives and lifeworlds which are chronically affected by interruptions of different scales, magnitudes and temporalities.
Get MoreAfrica, 29% to Latin America and 7% to Pacific South East Asia. (Mining Journal, 2001:353). If these estimates are anything to go by, then there is no doubt that mining as an industry will continue to expand over the next 20 to 30 years and that developing countries will almost certainly play an increasingly important role in that expansion.
Get MoreBy Warren Beech, partner and head of mining at law firm Hogan Lovells The various challenges being faced by the South African Exploration and Mining Industry are generally summarised into 8 key challenges, namely: the global financial crisis, and the impact that this has had on global demand, regulatory and legislative uncertainty, infrastructure, ports, …
Get MoreGiven that legacy mining issues are a well-recorded problem in many mining jurisdictions worldwide, the study of these mines and their attendant problems and solutions may have wider applicability outside South Africa. Three broad challenges are discussed, namely i) legislative challenges, centring around the lack of a legal definition for ...
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