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This paper describes factors related to demographics and health in an artisanal and small-scale gold mining community in Ghana's Upper East Region. Understanding the Social Context of the ASGM Sector in Ghana: A Qualitative Description of the Demographic, Health, and Nutritional Characteristics of a Small-Scale Gold Mining Community in Ghana ...

1. Introduction. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is proliferating worldwide owing to increasing demand and rising prices for minerals and precious metals in growing economies [].At least 20 million people work directly in ASM, and 80–100 million are dependent on it for their livelihood [].In Ghana, an important gold-producing country, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM ...

Illegal small-scale gold mining brings several benefits to developing countries like Ghana, manifested mainly as employment and revenue but simultaneously impacts negatively on the immediate environment. The study tested the hypothesis that density and diversity of key native tree and shrub species differ in the mined and unmined areas of Nangodi in the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper ...

The Gbane Project is located 21 kilometres south-east of Bolgatanga, the capital of the Upper East region. Cassius has been working in Ghana since 2014 and was the first company to be issued a Large-Scale Licence in an area that was previously restricted to small scale local miners.

unemployment in cities, deregulation of gold mining in Ghana, proliferation of industrial mining activities, and the increasing price of gold worldwide [10]. As of 2010, it is estimated that over 10,000 men, women, and children are employed directly in the district's small-scale gold mines, making them an economic cornerstone of the region [11].

The Gbane Project is located 21 kilometres south-east of Bolgatanga, the capital of the Upper East region. Cassius has been working in Ghana since 2014 and was the first company to be issued a Large-Scale Licence in an area that was previously restricted to small scale local miners.

Bolgatanga Project The Gbane Project lies within the Talensi District of the Upper East region in northeastern Ghana. Cassius' Large Scale Prospecting Licence covers a 13.791 km2 area. The Project is at an advanced exploration stage. The Bolgatanga region is characterised by a series of highly prospective granite-greenstone belts (Bole /

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 ...

commission successfully tested and introduced hammer mills to the Ghanaian small-scale mining industry in 1999. The first plant was built at -Talensi Nabdam district in the upper East Region of Ghana (Anon-Sackey, 2001). The small-scale mining of these precious minerals has had significant socio-economic impact on many

corpus id: 195574738. the environmental and health implications of artisanal small gold mining in kadema, upper east region, ghana @inproceedings{anuruyeng2019theea, title={the environmental and health implications of artisanal small gold mining in kadema, upper east region, ghana}, author={d. a. anuru-yeng}, year={2019} }

I. Sulemana and I. Agyemang, "The socio-cultural implications of small-scale mining in the Talensi-Nabdam district of the Upper East Region of Ghana," International Research Journal of Public and Environmental Health, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 27–36, 2015.

Images Of Mining Pits At Nangodi In Upper East Region Of Ghana . We are a large-scale manufacturer specializing in producing various mining machines including different types of sand and gravel equipment, milling equipment, mineral processing equipment and building materials equipment.

Social Analysis of Small-scale gold mining in the Upper East and Western regions of Ghana; Wahala at Ghetto bits': Child Labour in small-scale gold mining communities of Talensi/Nabdam district of the Upper East region of Ghana; Baseline research on Poverty and Human Development in Ghana's Western Region

The recent increase in artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) worldwide has elicited a number of public health concerns for miners and mining communities, including respiratory health. ... in the Upper East Region of Ghana in May-July 2011. Of 172 participants, 159 performed spirometry, yielding 119 and 95 valid measurements for FEV 1 and ...

CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): Abstract: This descriptive paper describes factors related to demographics and health in an artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) community in Ghana's Upper East Region. Participants (n = 114) were surveyed in 2010 and 2011, adapting questions from the established national Demographic Health Survey (DHS) on ...

The Upper East Region of Ghana is the worst degraded region. Then human activities responsible for the fast degradation of the land are shifting cultivation, intensive farming on one piece of land, indiscriminate felling of trees for fuel wood and charcoal production, bush burning, over grazing and small scale mining.

People mined for gold on small-scale along the coastal areas justifying the colonial name of Ghana: "The Gold Coast" [7]. The Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) of Ghana defines small-scale gold mining operation as the mining of gold by any effective and efficient method that does not involve substantial expenditure by an individual

environmental implications of small-scale gold mining operations in the Bolgatanga District of the Upper East Region. Small-scale gold mining started actively in an area designated the Small-Scale Gold Mining Area about two (2) years ago. The three main types of gold mining operations were alluvial, colluvial and lode gold mining.

Mining Areas In Upper West Region; Upper West Region Wikipedia. It covers a geographical area of 18,476 square kilometers, representing 12.7% of the total land area of Ghana. The northern Ghana-Burkina Faso is bordered on the east by the Upper East region and Northern regions, on the south by the Northern region, on the west by western Ghana

Sixteen people were killed in an accident at a gold mining site in northern Ghana, a local official said on Thursday, prompting the authorities to launch an Tuesday, July 14, 2020 2:37 PM

A fatal mining explosion has struck at Gbani, a community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region, with as many as 7 people feared dead in the tragedy.

Jul 31, 2015· A study in the Tarkwa area of southwest Ghana, where large and small-scale gold mining occur along with subsistence farming, found median groundwater and surface water pH (5.71, 5.05, and 6.40 for borehole, well, and stream water, respectively) below .

policies and interventions for women in the small-scale mining industry and other organizations. Methods The study's setting comprised four small-scale gold-mining communities – Kejetia, Obuasi, Accra, and Tarkwa – in the Talensi district of the Upper East region in Ghana, within the Guinea Savannah zone (Benneh, Agyapong, & Allotey, 1990).

The Western Region is located in south Ghana, spreads from the Ivory Coast border in the west to the Central region in the east, includes the capital and large twin city of Sekondi-Takoradi on the coast, coastal Axim, and a hilly inland area including Elubo.It includes Ghana's southernmost location, Cape Three Points, where crude oil was discovered in commercial quantities in June 2007.
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