Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Sarla Soni Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 25/09/2023. The main issue involved in the application is consideration and need for regulatory resign to check acetic activities in testing of gold, compliance of guidelines issued …
The country's $1 billion gold production sector is under threat from the Minamata Convention that seeks to ban the use of mercury, a major chemical used by artisanal miners to trap the mineral from ore. The Minamata Convention is calling for the phasing out of new mercury sources and the …
Holding a plastic bottle of toxic mercury with his bare hands on an illegal gold mining barge in the Amazon basin, the 22-year-old miner says he is well aware of the dangers of the job. In shorts and sandals, he lights a blow torch, training a blue flame on a …
Over half a billion children are living in areas with extremely high levels of floods and nearly 160 million children live in areas of high or extremely high droughts. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 26% of the annual 6.6 million deaths of children under-five are linked to environment-related …
Pretoria – Geologist Tshiamo Legoale has made history by being the first South African to be crowned the FameLab International Champion for a project which researched a method of using wheat to harvest gold from mine dumps. “Not only am I the first South African… but I am the first …
Kenya is one of the eight countries that will get financial and technical support to eradicate mercury during gold mining and processing. The recently launched Global Opportunities for Long-term Development of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining project of the UN Environmental Programme will invest $21 million (Sh2.17 billion) in …
Zaka — The anti-riot police was on Sunday deployed to Panganai Business Centre in Zaka district under Chief Nhema to disperse thousands of illegal gold miners who invaded the area last week. The development comes as villagers reportedly discovered gold deposits, a move which triggered the mass exodus of illegal …
The Defense Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has ordered the Chief of Defence Staff to launch an immediate investigation into alleged reports that some military men are protecting illegal gold mining concessions, especially in the Ashanti region. The revelation was made by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, when …
Sawarda — On Friday, anti-cyanide activists in Sawarda in Sudan's Northern State announced their refusal to resume negotiations with the authorities after their three-week deadline for the dismantling of the gold cyanidation site expired. For months, the people in Sawarda, Aru, Ashim, Kiweika, Abboud, and Wawa villages have been protesting …
Zimbabwe may confiscate unused mining licenses from companies and liberalize gold trading as ways to boost output. Large mines are “sitting on lots of unused claims,” the southern African country’s Chamber of Mines said in a document outlining initiatives of the proposed Command Mining program. Revisiting the Gold Trade Act …
Small and medium-scale agriculture is responsible for 80 percent of the deforestation between 2001 and 2015. According to experts of the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) controlling the deforestation will be difficult because “it is everywhere and in small patches.” Peru lost more than 1 million hectares of …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Police recovered 25 bodies, believed to be those of illegal miners, from a disused Harmony Gold mine shaft, near an area where 76 illegal miners died in 2009 in what was one of South Africa's worst mining disasters. The bodies were recovered from the Eland shaft near …
Peasant miners have set up makeshift mines on farmland and timber plantations in the country’s eastern provinces, which border Mozambique where gold fetches a higher price. Deep tunnels have been dug beneath roads, railways and buildings in the Kwekwe area of the Midlands province. In some parts of Manicaland province, …
Sodari — Residents of Sodari in North Kordofan protested against the use of cyanide in extracting gold on Sunday. The protesters handed a memorandum to the Commissioner of Sodari demanding closure of the gold cyanidation site in the locality within 72 hours. They fear pollution of the water sources in …
NYALIGONGO, Tanzania, April 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Three years ago, 14-year-old Julius left his family near the lakeside city of Mwanza, Tanzania, to try his luck mining gold. Today Julius is in no hurry to leave, despite having one of the riskiest jobs on a chaotic mine site - …
Kadoma — Studies have revealed high traces of mercury metal in women's breast milk and fish in the gold mining areas of Kadoma and Chakari, exposing to risk the lives of children and people in surrounding communities. Mercury exposure affects foetal neurological development and is linked to lower fertility, brain …
DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- At least four miners were feared dead on Monday night and six others were rescued when a gold mine collapsed in Tanzania’s northern region of Mara, rescuers said. Elia Caleb, leading a team of rescuers, said the collapse at Buhemba gold mine happened when …
Mara — Three artisanal miners are believed to have died in a gold pit at the Buhemba mining area in Butiama District of Mara Re gion, the police force in Mara Region confirmed on Monday afternoon. Until yesterday noon, rescuers were still working to retrieve the dead bodies from the …
South Kordofan / East Darfur — Residents in Kordofan and Darfur states have filed new complaints against the use of mercury, cyanide and other harmful substances in areas of gold and oil exploration. People from North and West Kordofan, East Darfur and Red Sea state collaboratively filed the complaint to …
This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on the welfare effects of mineral resources, which, until now, has concentrated more on …
Dar es Salaam - Two miners were killed and several others are believed missing after an illegal gold mine collapsed in northern Tanzania, the mining ministry said on Friday. At least 18 miners were illegally digging for gold in the town of Buhemba near Lake Victoria on Monday. "The shaft …
