artisanal mining

Some people are employed in artisanal mining and traditional fishing.

Artisanal mining of gemstones in the country used primitive methods.

Globally, artisanal mining contributes up to 12% or 330 tonnes of annual gold production.

According to the Eritrean government, artisanal mining in 1998 collected 573.4 kilograms of gold.

The film surveys the industrial and artisanal mining industry in Katanga Province.

There is a small amount of artisanal mining of gold and gem quality green tourmaline.

There is some artisanal mining.

The disputes, in which several people had died, were due mainly to artisanal mining of diamond deposits and to competition for arable land.

Artisanal mining degrades riparian zones, creating erosion and heavy silting of the water.

Artisanal mining and the attendent appalling health and safety issues are found in every country in Africa.

Widespread artisanal mining activities (often controlled by rebel militias) are the major source of hunting pressure for gorillas and other wildlife.

Although industrial production has ceased with cement lids sealing off the mine shafts, there is evidence that some artisanal mining still goes on here.

Small-scale artisanal mining of gold is another source of dangerous child labour in poor rural areas in certain parts of the world.

This report discussed the opportunity of using certification of origin and certification of ethical quality to stimulate sustainable development in artisanal mining communities.

In addition to copper mines, children with their families participate in artisanal mining of cobalt, wolframite, cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, diamonds.

Artisanal mining can include activities as simple as panning for gold in rivers, to as complex as development of underground workings and small-scale processing plants.

The beginning of coltan as an important mineral, crucial to technological products "occurred as warlords and armies in the eastern Congo converted artisanal mining operations.

In 1981, mining in the region was opened to private enterprise, causing rapid growth in artisanal mining as well as formal commercial mining by foreign companies.

In the Kono, Kenema, Bo and Pujehun Districts there are 1,700 artisanal mining licenses in operation.

Artisanal mining was limited to the exploitation of precious stones, notably gold in Kelle, Kakamoeka, Mayoko and in Souanké.

The adjective "artisanal" is sometimes used in describing hand-processing in what is usually viewed as an industrial process, such as in the phrase artisanal mining.

According to the report, Ghana was fully implementing the Kimberley Process but the country lacked the resources to monitor and control illicit diamond mining and buying, especially from the artisanal mining areas.

Surveys the industrial and artisanal mining industry in Katanga Province, including interviews with Canadian lawyer Paul Fortin and First Quantum Minerals President, Clive Newall.

The Samira Hill Gold Mine (Namaga concession) began producing gold in 2004 from the Tera greenstone belt which surrounds Koma Bangou, the country's largest artisanal mining site.