19149 PDFs | Review articles in GOLD MINING
Seyed-Hani Motavalli-Anbaran. Determining the edge and horizontal position of geologic structures is one of the fundamental steps in interpreting potential field data. Several …
Typology of Environmental Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
— 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 …
Heat Stress in Underground Mines and its Control Measures: …
— Heat stress is a major concern for the health, safety and productivity of miners working in hot and humid underground mines. At greater depth, heat inside underground mines increases due to geothermal gradient, heat released from high-capacity machinery, exposed rock surface, auto-compression of air, human metabolism, etc. …
Global forces shaping the future of mining and how to …
— One approach is to look at risk and issues not in isolation, but to consider how they manifest themselves as forces shaping the future of the mining industry. Whereas risks vary from year to year (evidenced by the emergence of infectious diseases as one of the Forum's top risks in a matter of months), forces endure over a longer timeframe.
Gold Production and the Global Energy …
— A net-zero emissions, future global gold industry, is possible. Major gold producers are targeting net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050, coupled with a lower overall environmental footprint to meet …
Potential implications of gold-mining activities on some …
— Gold mining and other mining activities globally, especially in developing nations, remain controversial due to evidence of a noticeable impact on the local climate, natural environment and socio-economic status of the local population.
Accounting for informalization in Africa's extractive industry
— For context, the gold mining industry in Ghana is controlled by MNCs, with an active but constrained participation by an informalized small ... 2014), the burgeoning …
Human Factors Issues Associated with Mobile Mining Equipment-Related
— The mining industry regardless of its contribution to socio-economic development is undoubtedly considered as a safety–critical industry due to the hazardous nature of its activities, the working environment and the equipment used [1,2,3,4,5,6].Environmental conditions such as falling rocks, dust, human-equipment …
Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research …
— The scientific literature on mining and biodiversity is also scarce, with less than 1% of papers in leading conservation journals referring to mining-related threats (electronic supplementary material, …
Systematic Review of GIS and Remote Sensing Applications …
— As the mining industry expands, a comprehensive understanding of its socioeconomic risks and benefits is urgently needed. ... Figure 7 depicts an alluvial diagram illustrating the distribution of data across different variables related to the social science literature and the interrelationships among variables (columns) and categories (rows ...
Systematic Review of Machine Learning …
— Recent developments in smart mining technology have enabled the production, collection, and sharing of a large amount of data in real time. Therefore, research employing machine learning (ML) that …
Country Case Study on Artisanal and Small-scale Mining: …
• The small-scale mining sector is known to have contributed 40–50 per cent of the Country's total gold production during the period from 1990 to 1999. This percentage is believed to have been a major factor in recent closures of large gold-mining operations.
South Africa
— South Africa - Gold Mining, Economy, History: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of gold-bearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centered on present-day Johannesburg. The rapid growth of the gold-mining industry intensified processes started by the diamond boom: immigration, urbanization, capital investment, and labor migrancy. …
Mining industry and sustainable development: time for …
— Mining industry and legacy impacts. Mining activities are not new and indeed may have started in Neolithic ... Oil exploitation fully developed during the last century and related ecological impacts occurred, ... In gold mining, two main processes, one based on mercury and the other based on cyanide, are used to aggregate gold dust after its ...
The socio-ecological impacts of mining on the well-being of …
— The mining industry is responsible for extracting and processing various minerals and other natural resources, including coal, iron ore, gold, copper, and ... This study presents a systematic review of the literature related to the socio-cultural and ecological impacts of mining on Indigenous peoples in Australia using the Millennium ...
COVID-19's impact on the global gold industry: Implications …
— The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent reaction by central banks have several implications for the gold-mining industry.Gold prices rose by 28 percent from January 1 to August 14, 2020. Meanwhile, energy prices and currencies in some gold-mining countries have declined, so the margins of gold miners have increased.
Review: Artisanal Gold Mining in Africa Environmental …
gold mining industry contributed 7% of the national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, with ASGM accounting for 35% (Afrifa et al. 2019; Bakia 2014; Macdonald et al.
Evaluating the environmental and economic impact of mining …
— However, small-scale gold mining has been the major cause of loss of vegetation cover and mass deforestation in Africa (Cullen-Unsworth et al., 2014; Owen and Kemp, 2013). In small-scale illegal mining, open-pits and trenches are left uncovered, and this takes several years for the land to regain its productivity and become useful.
The mining industry as a net beneficiary of a global tax on …
— Economic value of commodities per tonne of CO2 emitted. Figure 2 shows the economic value per tonne of CO 2 for select energy transition metals (copper, nickel, lead, zinc, silver, gold, platinum ...
Creating the zero-carbon mine | McKinsey
— The mining industry is at a tipping point where sustainability and decarbonization are top items on CEOs' agendas. To achieve a 1.5°C climate-change target by 2050, the mining industry will need to reduce direct CO 2 emissions to zero. Encouragingly, our analysis shows that solutions to decarbonize the majority of …
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining and biodiversity: a …
— Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is crucial to the livelihoods of close to 20 million people in over 80 countries, including 4-5 million women, mainly in …
The environmental impacts and sustainable pathways of the …
— The horizontal coordinate is the year while the vertical coordinate is the related environmental indicators of the global diamond mining industry in the corresponding year. Circles of different ...
Gold mining industry influence on the environment and …
— The gold mining industry is a continuous pollution trigger, representing the primary source of heavy metal contamination during the exploitation and for many …
Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold …
— Indonesia is host to a long history of gold mining and is responsible for a significant contribution to world gold production. This is true not only with regard to large gold mining companies but also to …
Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the effectiveness of mining
— Background 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 …
Environmental Impacts of the Mining Industry : A literature review
— Based on a literature review, this article presents environmental impacts of the mining (also know as the extractive) industry. The article presents details of 11 main environmental impacts ...
A review of the use of AI in the mining industry: Insights …
— Moreover, over 50 % of current mining sites 1 and deposits are located in politically unstable and economically poor countries of South America, Africa, and Asia, or the 'Global South' group. 2 In many locations, counterintuitively, the growth in production correlates with acute social and economic challenges, threatening the ability of poor and …
Review: Artisanal Gold Mining in Africa—Environmental …
gold mining industry contributed 7% of the national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, with ASGM accounting ... the documented literature on toxic environmental hazards, related human exposure and health impacts; (2) Characterize ... and small-scale gold mining, related human exposure, and health impacts in Africa.
Environmental Impacts of the Mining Industry : A literature review
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Digital Transformation in the Mining Sector: Exploring …
— The diffusion of Industry 4.0 technologies in the mining sector (Mining 4.0) can prevent a technological shock if they are implemented in all segments, including quarrying (Surface Mining 4.0).
Influencing factors on safety culture in mining industry: A …
— There are four main phases of safety research in the mining industry (Bloch, 2012). The first phase of safety is safety engineering and the second phase focused on policies, procedures, and safety regulations in the mining industry. Both these phases agreed that 95% of mining accidents and incidents were due to human factors (Bloch, …
An assessment of the effect of inventory control systems on
— 1. Introduction. In Zimbabwe, the mining sector is one of the key drivers of the economy as it ranks among the top three contributors of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Zimbabwe Economic Report, Citation 2018).The Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe (2015) highlights that the mining sector has become one of the important drivers of economic …
Assessment of occupational safety and health hazards …
exposure of workers in small-scale gold mining in the Philippines EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study examined the practices in the small-scale gold mining (SSGM) industry in the Philippines, particularly the working conditions of miners and workers during gold extraction and processing. It evaluated the miners' and workers' exposure to
Mining and socio-ecological systems: A systematic
— The mining industry has a great potential to help in achieving the sustainable development goals but it is also one of the most controversial industries. ... This study presents a review of literature related to socio-ecological impacts of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using the Drivers-Activities-Pressure-State changes-Impacts (on Welfare ...