The mineral sector, especially its small-scale subsector, has become significant in the emerging economies of the Global South. Tanzania is the focus of this policy exposition paper because, aside from Ghana and South Africa, Tanzania is ranked 4th in Africa in terms of its mineral deposits and small-scale mining activities.
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Finally, we adopted the Wise-IoU loss function to optimize the detection performance of the model. We also re-designed the position of the prediction heads to achieve precise detection of small-scale targets. The experimental results substantiate the effectiveness of the algorithm, with YOLO-Global achieving a [email protected] of 95.8%. In ...
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The geological, mineral processing, production and geographic risk profile of cobalt. Author links open overlay panel E. Savinova a, ... Global cobalt production reached a record high of 170 kt/year in 2021, ... These gaps may be due to the highly fluctuating artisanal and small-scale mining sectors, ...
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This issue is gaining prominence in academic circles (Tokimatsu, 2018; Lee et al., 2020), policy-making (Hund et al., 2020, IEA, 2021b) and popular media (The Economist, 2021, The Economist, 2022).A component of the emerging storyline has been the role that artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays in the supply of cobalt, especially from the Democratic …
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The main aspects of cobalt production are examined through assessment of global demand and supply, the common geological settings and mineral processing routes, and the associated situated environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk factors. The supply risk of cobalt is high, owing to its primary extraction as a by-product during copper and nickel …
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It is needless to say that artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is of significant importance for sourcing valuable minerals and geological materials that are processed in products we use daily. This includes e.g. jewelry, …
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Business and Technical Management of Small-Scale Mineral Producers in Rwanda 1 1 E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y 1.1 B a c k g r o u n d Combined with a handful of medium-scale producers, artisanal and small-scale (ASM) mineral production has consistently accounted for a significant percentage (~25-35%) of Rwanda¶s total exports.
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Hentschel T, Hruschka F, Priester M (2002) Global report on artisanal and small-scale mining. Report commissioned by the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development of the International Institute
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Interview questions were formulated following a global literature review identifying key themes about interactions. ... Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has also boomed, but academic research on mine-community conflicts has seldom considered the ASM sector. ... low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing – and capital ...
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According to IGF (2017b) ASM is a complex and diversified sector that includes poor informal individual miners seeking to eke out or supplement a subsistence livelihood, to …
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Small-scale mining—low-tech mineral extraction and processing—has long been an important industry in Africa. For centuries, operations have provided inhabitants of the rural, more impoverished regions of the continent with a wealth of employment benefits and, more recently, have made important contributions to mineral wealth and foreign exchange earnings.
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Sec 200A-Processing of statements of tax deducted at source; ... in relation to a small scale industrial undertaking or an industrial undertaking referred to in sub-section (4) ... is located in North-Eastern Region and has begun or begins commercial production of mineral oil before the 1st day of April, 1997;
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The artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) sector-commonly described as low-tech, labor-intensive mineral extraction and processing, in developing countries, is increasingly associated with the use of ...
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The mineral sector, especially its small-scale subsector, has become significant in the emerging economies of the Global South. Tanzania is the focus of this policy exposition paper because, aside ...
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Flow diagram with the steps of the study. The topics of the interviews covered five areas: (a) age, family background, mining experience; (b) miners' perception of mineral extraction and the improvement or deterioration of their well-being; (c) financial remuneration depending on the miners' experience; (d) perception of environmental and health problems; (e) awareness of the …
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A mobile modular mineral processing plant is also called a mobile mining plant, a set of flexible and efficient small and medium-sized portable concentrator systems.Because of the characteristics of some mines with high-grade gold ore, coarse embedded particle size, and small and scattered mining scale. This system adopts the design concept of modularization and …
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The global significance of artisanal and small-scale mining of certain mineral commodities implies the need for evaluating this production component as a potential long-term source of supply, in ...
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Overcoming small-scale challenges High capital expenditure and global economic structures have made it financially risky to invest in smaller-scale mining deposits. Investors instead prefer large 'world-class' projects that, even if of a lower grade, can demonstrate economies of scale."The associated costs of setting up a mine - exploration activities, …
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Using new and existing technology, project researchers have developed containerised, mobile and modular equipment that can be adapted for geological and metallurgical variability. This includes a mineral processing …
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As concerns the ownership structure, the steel industry consists of some large firms that operate globally and produce significant output, and many small firms that operate at a lesser scale.
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the rising value of mineral prices and the increasing difficulty of earning a living from agriculture and other rural activities. An estimated 40.5 million
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According to a recent survey carried out by ILO and MMSD, at present we can reckon with around 13 million people working directly in small mines throughout the world, mainly in developing …
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The overall performance of mineral processing production lines is specified in the global production indices, such as concentrate yield, concentrate grade, metal recovery rate, and concentration ratio. Indices decision-making has essential value in organizing and coordinating the production and operation activities of mineral processing.
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Image smoothing provides a fundamental operation for image processing, with a broad spectrum of applications. It is a challenging task which requires global analysis on image patterns with scale awareness. Existing deep models for image smoothing are insufficiently efficient in global perception and multi-scale processing. This letter proposes a deep model …
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This report examines the potential for ASM to take an expanded role in the global supply of critical minerals as governments and industries scramble to meet demand driven by …
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Studies show that artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) activities are often unregulated and have led to the destruction of the environment in diverse ways (Baah-Ennumh, 2010; Hilson, 2017; Hilson & Maconachie, 2020; Veiga & Morais, 2014).The problems relating to ASM such as the excessive use of dangerous chemicals, water pollution, poor health and …
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Boateng DO, Nana F, Codjoe Y, Ofori J (2014) Impact of illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) on cocoa production in Atiwa district of Ghana. Int J Adv Agric Res 2:89–99. Google Scholar Crawford G, Botchwey G (2016) Foreign involvement in small-scale gold mining in Ghana and its impact on resource fairness.
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Recently, deep learning methodologies have achieved significant advancements in mineral automatic sorting and anomaly detection. However, the limited features of minerals transported in the form of small particles pose significant challenges to accurate detection. To address this challenge, we propose a enhanced mineral particle detection algorithm based on …
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Artisanal and small-scale mining is also the source of the largest releases of mercury, estimated at 1,400 tonnes per year in 2011 according to the Minamata Convention. Exposure to mercury can have serious health impacts, including irreversible brain damage.
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Based on qualitative research conducted in this region, this paper engages the artisanal and small-scale miners' experiences of gold mining. It highlights how extracting gold is …
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Transitional dynamics from mercury to cyanide-based processing in artisanal and small-scale gold mining: social, economic, geochemical, and environmental considerations
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Rising mineral prices and the struggle to earn a living from agriculture have led to explosive growth in artisanal and small-scale mining …
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Mining is a notoriously dangerous occupation. Where reliable national statistics exist, mining generally ranks in the top three occupations for related diseases and fatal accidents (Vingård and Elgstrand, 2013: 6).In large-scale mining endeavors, the management of health and safety largely relies on governmental regulation of mining companies, institutionally enforced …
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In this paper, we explore how the operations of a formalised (registered) small-scale mining operator in Ghana, as objectified in its obligatory and ethical functions, contribute to …
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In order to design a lighter and more efficient model, Dong et al. [8] proposed the FSRCNN network, which effectively reduces the computational complexity of the network by employing inverse convolution operation for up-sampling at the end of the network instead of interpolating up-sampling at the front end.The newly introduced inverse convolutional up …
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In 2009, the World Bank published Mining Together: Large-Scale Mining Meets Artisanal Mining (World Bank, 2009), a colorful document which shares ideas on why "Large-Scale Mining (LSM) companies [have] increasingly come across Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) workers during their exploration or production activities in the developing world" (p. 7). 1 …
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Rising mineral prices and the struggle to earn a living from agriculture have led to explosive growth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), according to a new report from the ...
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