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of residents in three communities hosting mining operations, Kenyasi (Newmont), Prestea/Bogoso (GoldenStar Resources), and Tarkwa (AngloGold Ashanti). Our interviews and survey data revealed surprising consonance across all three communities. The perception towards mining, even with the arrival of CBAs, remains predominantly negative and
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02.12.2021Mayn said local residents involved in mining went to her parents' house to threaten her, causing her father to faint from high blood pressure. In March 2021, a community radio station run by ODECOFROC was also attacked. Peaceful Assembly Wave
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The Diamond Producers Association (DPA), a global alliance of the seven leading diamond mining companies — which represents 75 percent of the world's diamond production — on Thursday released its first independent research
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On Monday 4 April, mining-affected communities claimed a significant victory following an order handed down on 1 May 2020 by Judge Andre van Niekerk, that government must have a "meaningful
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Even among educated people in these communities, residents are un- or underemployed and living in poor conditions. Mining is often seen as the pathway to affording a basic livelihood and other goods such as motorcycles, cars, and houses. A young man uses a crusher, a diesel engine that removes gold from gravel.
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However, government employees and traditional owners are more optimistic than other groups about community futures beyond mining. Devastatingly, employment impacts represent approximately 80 and 75% (225 1616) of jobs and 90 and 80% ($30 m $164 m) of employment income in the two locations (Leigh Creek, Roxby Downs).
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16.10.2019Former mining towns and villages across the UK have still not recovered a generation on from pit closures, a new report claims. It found issues including unemployment, ill health and social
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04.07.2005One of the main issues at the heart of the conflicts between big scale mining projects and local governments, as is often the case with communities and mining in general, is one of power. The other, closely related, is one of sovereignty. Is it acceptable for a mining company, even when not legally required, to bypass the local governments when
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18.01.2020Mining has been blamed globally for harmful and impoverishing effects. Most countries are rich sources of gemstone, yet there is very little development, since miners, and those around mining sites, still live in abject poverty. This study sought answers on: "how mining activities have affected communities' livelihoods?". Data was gathered
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16.10.2019Former mining communities 'still scarred by past'. Britain's last deep coal mine, Kellingley Colliery, closed in 2015. Former mining towns and villages across the UK have still not recovered a
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13.11.2022Though the mines closed decades ago, the residents of Lazenby describe their community as 'unbelievable', with a close-knit group helping one another through difficult times. Read More: Inside futuristic 8m North Yorkshire home with 66 acres of land and 11 en suite bathrooms
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20.09.2021Communities once reliant on the coal industry are now more politically disenchanted, with residents less likely to vote, than places with similar levels of deprivation but without the "narrative of decline" that holds sway in former mining areas.
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12.02.2019No, mining is in a sunset phase, even if corporates and politicians do not want to admit it," says Mbuthuma. For more information about the protest action on the West Coast, contact Davine Cloete on 071-592-2361. Issued by Natasha Adonis, on behalf of SAFCEI. For more information, contact Natasha on 0797-999-654 or
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21.12.2021They've been close friends for years, spending Christmas together every year. "I'm heartbroken and scared," Hazell says. With a combined income of 38,000, like Cindy and John
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Now a village with 1300 inhabitants but in 14th-19th centuries an important mining town with more than 4000. Several houses still have an urban character. Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, in 1957. A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners. Mining communities are usually created around a
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20.09.2021To define former coalmining communities, Abreu and Jones used 1981 census data to identify areas where at least 10% of adult males had been employed in the "Energy and Water" sector, and overlaid this with geological maps to whittle down to those neighbourhoods within 10 miles of bedrock coal deposits.
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27.02.2018Therefore, mining negatively impacts local communities deteriorating health (e.g. air, soil and water pollution) and increasing inequalities due to income disparity, high pressures on
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12.11.2022CHARLOTTE, N.C. - As world leaders meet for another climate summit in Egypt, the U.S. is pushing to mine more lithium for electric vehicle batteries at home. EVs will help cut pollution from transportation, the nation's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But there's a tradeoff, as residents have learned
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This brief review looks at the gold mining sector (industrial and artisanal) and its key impact on environmental as well as on health of workers and communities (residents who live in proximity to the mine).. Keywords: pollution, air, soil, water I. Introduction
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CONTEXT. Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining occurs in approximately 80 countries worldwide. There are approximately 100 million artisanal miners globally. Artisanal and small-scale production supply accounts for 80% of
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31.03.2021Mr Adusah Yakubu, a resident of Kenyasi in Asutifi North District called for effective engagement between District Assemblies and local communities in addressing the development needs of the local people. "Development in our mining communities is appalling and the government must do something about that.
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27.08.2018Somkhele is a community near one of the coal mines mentioned in the Human Rights Commission's report. Two weeks ago, I spoke with Wandile, a 67-year-old woman who grew up in the area and who was
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18.01.2020Mining has been blamed globally for harmful and impoverishing effects. Most countries are rich sources of gemstone, yet there is very little development, since miners, and those around mining sites, still live in abject poverty. This study sought answers on: "how mining activities have affected communities' livelihoods?".
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LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND MINES CHAPTER 9 MMSD THE MINING, MINERALS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 199 Power differentials can leave a sense of helplessness when communities confront the potential for change induced by large,powerful external companies. The problems are most acute where local
Get Price WhatsApp16.12.2021Thousands of children in mining communities engage in illegal artisanal mining, a 2020 survey by the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) has revealed. As a result, their literacy rate is lower than the national average and they are more vulnerable to opportunistic infections.
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22.08.2015The remote mining town in East Arnhem Land saw its population plummet from 4000 to about 2000 after Rio Tinto announced it would mothball its Gove alumina refinery, leaving a quarter of the town out of work. Redundant workers and families fled en masse, leaving abandoned homes and struggling businesses in their wake.
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Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit.The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic viability of investing in the equipment, labor, and energy required to extract, refine and transport the materials found at the
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27.09.2016Malawi: Mining Puts Residents at Risk Urgent Need to Protect Rights of Lake Malawi Communities Nagomba E., 75, standing where her house used to be in Mwabulambo, Karonga district. She and her
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28.01.2014Workplace health and safety, job quality and security, wages and benefits, and the contracting out of work to non-local residents are also serious concerns in communities with a high rate of mining employment (Azapagic 2004 ). Host communities must also cope with the market uncertainties of mineral commodities.
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02.06.2021Community engagement is an important element in the planning and decision-making processes of the Victorian mining industry. The government also believes that establishing engagement opportunities with the community is a good start for an operator striving to achieve and maintain its 'social licence to operate'.
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31.03.2021Mr Adusah Yakubu, a resident of Kenyasi in Asutifi North District called for effective engagement between District Assemblies and local communities in addressing the development needs of the local people.
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In September 2020, the HRLC, representing 156 residents of villages in the vicinity of the Panguna mine, filed a complaint with the AusNCP against Rio Tinto. The complaint alleges that Rio Tinto is accountable for significant breaches of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises relating to past and ongoing environmental and human rights
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02.08.2019This covers over 30 farming communities including, Osubeng, Mmoramora, Sukwa, Tobi Krom, Omanso, Kwadwobeng Krom, and Kumaduoson. The Osubeng residents say they want cocoa and not gold. "Our cocoa is what we like," they said, adding that "if it rains we are not able to use our roads."
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31.03.2021Mr Adusah Yakubu, a resident of Kenyasi in Asutifi North District called for effective engagement between District Assemblies and local communities in addressing the development needs of the local people. "Development in our mining communities is appalling and the government must do something about that.
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In Guinea, difficult living conditions in mining areas often push their residents to take their children out of school and practice artisanal mining to meet basic needs. For several years, there has been a considerable
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Thomas Millican and family. A typical example of a mining family appears in the 1841 census. Thomas Millican was a 50-year-old copper miner, and he lived with his wife and four sons at the Old Office in Coniston. In 1850
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12.10.2016There is a definite advantage to residential mining jobs that you may not have considered. Forget traffic jams, for a start. The commute time can be as little as ten minutes one way, so there's more leisure time than what most city workers enjoy. And we haven't even started on the flying time you'd normally rack up with a FIFO job. Social Life
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dimensions of mining various different perspectives that create and shape social landscapes need to be considered. The attention towards these issues increased significantly in the last 10 years with the way the mining industry impacts on local communities where it operates and how communities see these impacts being
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08.07.2020This study examines the impacts of mining on the environment in three selected mining edge communities within the vicinity of Octea Mining Company, Kono, Kono district; Sierra Rutile Limited, Rutile, Bonthe district and SL Mining, Lunsar, Port Loko district, in Sierra Leone. 2. Materials and Methods 2.1. Study Areas
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21 July 2021 MELBOURNE, Australia-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto and Bougainville community members, represented by the Human Rights Law Centre, have reached an agreement to identify and assess legacy impacts of the former Panguna copper mine in
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