small scale and artisanal mining in zamfara state

small scale and artisanal mining in zamfara state

Evaluation of Stakeholders’ Roles in the Management of Artisanal

This paper evaluates the roles of stakeholders in the management of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Anka, a typical ASGM town in Zamfara State, North-western Nigeria,...

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(PDF) Evaluation of Stakeholders' Roles in the

This paper evaluates the roles of stakeholders in the management of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Anka, a typical

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Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Nigeria - ELI

2011.7.11  emissions of mercury into the air and soil. In 2010, unregulated small-scale mining in the northern state of Zamfara gave rise to an epidemic of childhood lead poisoning, with at least four hundred children under the age of five dying within a six

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(PDF) ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF

2021.2.10  The Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector in Nigeria is in a deplorable state characterised by the use of inadequate mining and processing methods and manual tools by the...

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Assessing the Impact of Artisanal Gold Mining in Anka

2022.12.2  This study assessed the impact of artisanal gold mining (AGM) in Abare, Dareta, Gonar Kowar, Shabili, Sunke and Bagega communities in Anka local government area (LGA) of Zamfara State,...

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The ‘Zambia Model’: A blueprint for formalizing artisanal and small ...

2020.10.1  It responds specifically to calls for Boosting Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, 1 a core pillar of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV), a development manifesto branded as ‘Africa's own response to tackling the paradox of great mineral wealth existing side by

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‪Luqman Kareem Salati, PhD‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Evaluation of Stakeholders’ Roles in the Management of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining in Anka, Zamfara State, Nigeria DMGPAE L.K. Salati Developing Country Studies 4 (19), 150-161 , 2014

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(PDF) Evaluation of Stakeholders' Roles in the

This paper evaluates the roles of stakeholders in the management of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Anka, a typical ASGM town in Zamfara State, Northwestern Nigeria, dominated by ...

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Zamfara gold mining lead poisoning disaster—Nigeria, Africa, 2010

2022.1.1  This hazard was well illustrated in the poisoning disaster event that involved a poverty-stricken area in Nigeria—the rural Zamfara State in 2010. Small-scale gold ore mining operations there contaminated entire communities with lead, which proved especially deadly for the children. At the time of the lead poisoning event, Nigeria was a ...

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Neuropathological lesions in the brains of goats in North-Western ...

2019.11.15  Indiscriminate small-scale artisanal gold mining activities were reported to have caused anthropogenic heavy metal environmental pollution in Zamfara State, north-western Nigeria. There is little or no information on the neurotoxic effects and related neuropathological lesions due to environmental pollution in the animal population.

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Assessment of selected heavy metal concentrations in soils from a ...

2021.2.22  The study investigated the contents of selected heavy metals in top soils and sub-soils around the vicinity of artisanal gold mining site in Minna, Niger state, using standard procedures. Digestion was done using HNO3–H2O2–HCl and heavy metal content using atomic absorption spectrometer. The results obtained showed some extent of

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Full article: Effects of artisanal gold mining activities on soil ...

Artisanal mining is generally a small-scale practice where the basic tools and manual labor are generally used for excavation (Canavesio, ... Lo et al. (Citation 2012) linked an outbreak of lead poisoning among children in two villages in Zamfara State, Nigeria to gold mining activities in the area.

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Effects of artisanal gold mining activities on soil properties in a ...

2017.3.8  Artisanal mining is generally a small-scale practice where the basic tools and manual labor . ... outbreak of lead poisoning among children in two villages in Zamfara State, Nigeria to gold mining .

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How Zamfara gold mining resurrected clamour for resource control

2020.11.15  PAGMI is a comprehensive artisanal and small-scale gold mining development programme, launched in 2019 to foster the formalisation and integration of artisanal, ... This therefore means that it is only the artisanal miners and the Zamfara State government that will benefit.

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Lead Toxicoses in Free-Range Chickens in Artisanal Gold-Mining ...

2020.5.26  Methods. Three free-range indigenous pullet chickens (A, B and C) were presented during a field investigation in July 2010 in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, where illegal small-scale gold mining activities caused the death of

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(PDF) Outbreak of acute childhood lead poisoning in Zamfara State ...

2010.11.9  September 2016 Journal of Health and Pollution. Background. In March 2010, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders detected an outbreak of acute lead poisoning in Zamfara State ...

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(PDF) Health Risk Ranking of Lead Contaminated Sites

2017.9.1  Health Risk Ranking of Lead Contaminated Sites in Bagega Community, Zamfara State, Nigeria. September 2017; ... Artisanal Gold Mining in Bagega Community, Nigeria. Arch Curr Res Int. 2016; 5(4): 1-9.

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Evaluation of Stakeholders’ Roles in the Management of Artisanal

Evaluation of Stakeholders’ Roles in the Management of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Anka, Zamfara State, Nigeria L. K. Salati 1,*, D. Mireku-Gyimah 2 and P. A. Eshun 2 1,* Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, Nigeria 2Department of Mining Engineering, University of Mines and Technology,

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Fostering the Sustainability of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

2021.5.24  The exploration and mining of Nigerian barite are primarily by artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) whose operations are characterized by poor productivity. As a result, the quantity and quality of barites produced do not satisfy the nation’s oil sector demands and other industries that require the mineral. This situation leads to massive

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Soil Lead Concentrations in Dareta Village, Zamfara, Nigeria

2019.8.22  Acute widespread lead poisoning took place in Zamfara State, Nigeria in 2010. Over 735 children were reported dead and thousands sickened by the neurotoxin. The source was traced to artisanal gold mining and processing in the villages. An immediate medical response protocol was developed to provide oral chelation therapy to the

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Neuropathological lesions in the brains of goats in North-Western ...

Indiscriminate small-scale artisanal gold mining activities were reported to have caused anthropogenic heavy metal environmental pollution in Zamfara State, north-western Nigeria. There is little or no information on the neurotoxic effects and related neuropathological lesions due to environmental pollution in the animal population.

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Mining Free Full-Text Safe Mining Assessment of Artisanal

Mining accidents and fatalities among the Artisanal and Small-scale miners (ASMs) occur in the process of mining metals, minerals, and energy materials (i.e., not construction materials), as shown in Table 1.Thousands of miners die from these mining accidents each year, especially in coal and hard rock mining [].Although surface mining is usually less

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Electrochemical determination of the levels of lead and ... - Springer

2021.1.6  Lead and cadmium poisoning is common in some parts of Nigeria as a result of artisanal mining of gold. The poisoning has led to the deaths of hundreds of women and children below the age of five years. In this study, the concentrations of lead and cadmium in eight soil samples collected from selected artisanal gold mining locations in

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Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood Lead Poisoning Epidemic ...

2016.1.8  Unknown risk: co-exposure to lead and other heavy metals among children living in small-scale mining communities in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Int J Environ Health Res 24 304 319, doi: 10.1080/09603123.2013.835028 [ PubMed ]

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Illegal mining and rural banditry in North West Nigeria

that are undertaken without state permission, land rights, mining licences, and exploration or mineral transportation permits. It can take the form of a subsistence activity such as artisanal mining, or it can manifest in large-scale organised crime spearheaded by illegal mining syndicates.9 Furthermore, illegal mining may also refer to mining

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(PDF) Climate Change, Conflict, and Resource Extraction

2022.3.8  Global trends in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM): A review of ke y numbers and issues. Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Miner als, Metals and Sustainable Development; 2017. Accessed

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