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  • Lead and Mercury Contamination Associated with Artisanal Gold Mining …

    The mine tailings are Lead and Mercury Contamination Associated with Artisanal Gold Mining in Anka, Zamfara State, 773 North Western Nigeria: The Continued Unabated Zamfara Lead Poisoning discharged directly into the small creeks and stream epidemics disease such as cancer, skin disease, channels.

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  • Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Nigeria

    In 2010, a major lead poisoning outbreak in Zamfara State, Nigeria made international headlines. Traced to artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) operations, the …

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  • How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of Nigeria

    Playing a key role in alleviating the crisis in Zamfara is the Artisanal Gold Council (AGC), a Canada-based nonprofit working to advance safer mining practices in the world's small-scale gold mines. In Zamfara, AGC is working to help villagers adopt methods that would suppress dust and move the processing out of homes and to …

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  • Impacts of Artisanal Mining on Some Heavy Metals …

    This research assesses the concentration of Zn, Ag, Hg, Pb and Cu in surface water Kutcheri's River Yankuzau and other streams coordinates range between longitude 11°48′ N to 11°53′N and latitude 7°00′ to 7°05′E using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometre(AAS). Artisanal mining has become prominent in these areas. It's become imperative to …

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  • Nigeria's Enduring "Gold Wars"

    Drawbacks from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Nigeria go beyond lost revenue. Between 2010 and 2013, over seven hundred children died [PDF] in Zamfara State due to lead poisoning ...

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  • Reducing Lead and Silica Dust Exposures in Small-Scale Mining …

    A survey of 70 villages in Zamfara State found that 77% had some ore processing activities and these were more likely to have children with lead poisoning and lead soil or dust contamination (Lo et al., 2012). Hazardous silica exposures have been documented in small-scale mining in other African countries (Gottesfeld et al., 2015). …

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  • (PDF) ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ARTISANAL GOLD MINING …

    Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM), owned by individuals, is one form of mineral mining that has been regulated by law. The dilemma in the management of ASGM lies in its dual nature, serving ...

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  • Water pollution and environmental policy in artisanal gold mining

    1. Introduction. Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the largest anthropogenic source of mercury emissions. Approximately 200 metric tons of elemental mercury are commercialized every year for ASGM purposes; this accounts for >30 % of the total mercury used in industrial applications (Gallo Corredor et al., 2021; …

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  • Map of Selected Study Communities in Anka, …

    Artisanal and small-scale gold mining involves both men and women employed as miners and gold amalgam processors, respectively. The average monthly income generated as much as Indonesian Rupiah ...

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  • 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, dominated by sporadic and mostly unlicenced ASGM activities.

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  • ‪Luqman Kareem Salati, PhD‬

    ‪Principal Lecturer, Mining Engineering, Kaduna Polytechnic‬ - ‪‪Cited by 25‬‬ - ‪Artisanal and small-scale mining‬ - ‪Mines Environment and Safety‬ ... 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 ...

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  • Heavy Metal Pollution: The Environmental Impact of Artisanal …

    Within the country, Zamfara state has been recognized among the top artisanal mining centers, producing massive solid mineral resources for decades, despite farming being the primary source of ...

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  • Despite ban, increasing fatalities, illegal mining persists in Zamfara

    Africa's artesanal and small-scale gold mining sector has development potential. At their peak in 2017 these mines in Niger, Zamfara employed as many as 600,000 people and created opportunities ...

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  • Climate Change, Conflict, and Resource Extraction: Analyses …

    The 2010 lead poisoning outbreak that claimed the lives of more than 400 children in artisanal gold mining villages in Zamfara, Nigeria is the tragic result of high …

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  • How Zamfara gold mining resurrected clamour …

    PAGMI is a comprehensive artisanal and small-scale gold mining development programme, launched in 2019 to foster the formalisation and integration of artisanal, or illegal, gold mining activities …

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  • 582 Health and safety training on lead exposure for artisanal and small

    Introduction Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has long been practiced in Nigeria. Mining often involves both occupational and community health and safety hazards that not only affect miners, but also their families and communities. In Zamfara, Nigeria where the gold bearing deposits contain unusually problematic concentrations of lead …

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  • (PDF) Climate Change, Conflict, and Resource Extraction

    have turned to artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ... Nigeria: mass lead poisoning from mining activities, Zamfara State – Update 1. P ublished . November 11, 2011.

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  • (PDF) Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood

    scale mining communities in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Int. J. Environ. Health Res. 0:1–16; ... especially with the widespread artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), as well as formal and large ...

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  • (PDF) Addressing the Socio-Economic and Community Issues in Mining

    sector, which includes majors as well as artisanal and small-scale mining, is still budding in. ... poisoning situation in Zamfara State in 2010. 32 Afeni T.B. and Adeogun A.A, ...

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  • Developing artisanal small-scale mining in Nigeria

    Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) is an important part of the Nigerian mining sector which has the potential to raise internally generated revenue and enhance our foreign exchange earnings, create employment, reduce poverty and encourage Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) if well managed. ... The case of Zamfara State in 2010 was more ...

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  • (PDF) Evaluation of Stakeholders' Roles in the Management …

    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 …

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  • Assessing livelihood and environmental implications of …

    The environmental impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) are currently a major issue globally. There is cause for concern given the rapid …

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  • Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Nigeria

    Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has long been practiced in Nigeria and around the world. Bolstered by historically high gold prices, a lack of viable alternative livelihoods, and ... 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 ...

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  • Everything You Need To Know About The Presidential Artisanal …

    Unregulated artisanal mining places a significant burden on fragile health systems. From 2010 to 2016, there were more than 7,000 incidences of lead poisoning, resulting in 700 deaths related to gold mining activities in Zamfara and Kebbi alone. His Excellency, the President, approved PAGMI in 2019 to address these issues and foster …

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  • (PDF) 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, dominated by sporadic and mostly unlicenced ASGM activities.

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  • Reducing Lead and Silica Dust Exposures in Small-Scale …

    A survey of 70 villages in Zamfara State found that 77% had some ore processing activities and these were more likely to have children with lead poisoning and …

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  • 'A wonderful accomplishment': success for cleanup of …

    Artisanal – small-scale – mining is a source of income for many in Zamfara, a mineral-rich state, and many children who are out of school in the region are involved.

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  • TIFO Nigeria Lead Poisoning Response

    In March 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, MSF) discovered an outbreak of acute lead poisoning in remote villages of Zamfara State, Nigeria. More than 17,000 people were poisoned and 400 children died as a result of soil lead contamination associated with artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities.

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  • [PDF] Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood …

    Background: From 2010 through 2013, integrated health and environmental responses addressed an unprecedented epidemic lead poisoning in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. Artisanal gold mining caused widespread contamination resulting in the deaths of > 400 children.

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  • Zamfara gold mining lead poisoning disaster—Nigeria, …

    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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