China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and …
Diminished industrial cobalt mine production in the early-to-mid 2000s led many Chinese companies to purchase ores from artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), many of whom have …
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Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining
Where care is taken, artisanal mining can be carried out efficiently, safely, with very low energy expenditure and a low environmental impact.Such artisanal operations have always made an important contribution to the tin industry and …
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Democratic Republic of Congo
An estimated 500,000 to 2 million people were directly dependent on artisanal mining activities (mainly gold, cassiterite, coltan, and diamonds) (Bryceson and Geenen 2016, 304).A 2020 study by IPIS has mapped about 2,951 mines, …
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Artisanal Mining in the People's Republic of China
Artisanal Mining Resource People 18 Acknowledgements 19 Bibliography 19 ... Most artisanal mining in China today can be categorized as Township and Village Enterprises (TVE). As …
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A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and …
Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable …
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Global Report on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Global Report on Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining 3 Introduction In many parts of the world, artisanal or small-scale mining (ASM) activities are at least as important as large-scale mining …
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Illegal Artisanal Gold Mines Are Sparking Conflict …
The rise in artisanal mining has come at a time when the metal's value is skyrocketing. Gold prices have increased sixfold since the end of the year 2000, reaching almost $2,900 per ounce in ...
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Artisanal and Small-scale Mining. Challenges …
More than 13 million people in the South are directly engaged in small-scale mining – many of whom are women and children – with another 80 to 100 million depending on it for some aspect of ...
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Asian investment at artisanal and small-scale mines in rural …
Artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) has been widespread throughout the world for over 2000 years (Hilson, 2002a), and today features heavily in the rural economy of many …
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China's mining industry
Monthly iron ore mining in China from March 2022 to March 2025 (in million metric tons) ... Investment volume in geological exploration in non-oil and gas resources China as of …
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China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and …
Artisanal production's share of world and DRC cobalt mine production peaked around 2008 at 18 to 23% and 40 to 53%, respectively, before trending down to 6 to 8% and 9 to 11% in 2020, respectively. Artisanal …
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The role of artisanal and small-scale mining in …
Wright T. Small mines in the Chinese coal industry, Working paper no. 80 of National Library of Australia; June 1998. [3] Gunson AJ, Yue J. Artisanal mining in the People's Republic of China, Report for MMSD; 2001. [4] Shen Lei, …
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Mercury and Artisanal Mining in China | Environmental …
Artisanal mining employs about 6 million people in China, who often work in deadly conditions, and contributes to environmental degradation on a huge scale. Chinese artisanal mercury, …
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Artisanal Small-Scale Mining for sustainable livelihood in …
Mining remains a major economic activity, especially in resource endowed areas. The mining process passed over significant shifts in the global investment flows (Bridge, 2004) …
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'We miners die a lot.' Appalling conditions and …
Although it is well known that artisanal mining is now a vital rural livelihood in developing countries around the world, with World Bank estimates suggesting that there may now be as many as 100 ...
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The role of artisanal and small-scale mining in China's …
It is believed that between 10 and 15 million people, including women and children, are directly involved in artisanal Au mining (Veiga et al., 2006;Spiegel, 2009), including over …
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The 'natural resource curse' and artisanal mines: the case …
Virtually all of these people worked in artisanal mines (industrial mines employed around 6,000 people in 2014). Paradoxically, studies quantitatively measuring the effects of …
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Congo to enforce artisanal cobalt monopoly after …
Specialist trading house Darton Commodities estimates that the weak market saw artisanal mining volumes drop to 4,400 tons to 5,000 tons in 2024 – or as little as 2% of the country's total output.
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Mining More than 13 million people in the South are directly engaged in small-scale mining – many of whom are women and children – with another 80 to 100 ... fact remains that small …
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activity plays an important role in the economy of developing countries, directly and indirectly supporting an estimated 100 million …
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Artisanal Mining in The People's Republic of China
Artisanal Mining Resource People 18 Acknowledgements 19 Bibliography 19 Appendices 19. ... Most artisanal mining in China today can be categorized as Township and Village Enterprises …
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Artisanal miners: A hidden but critical force in the …
About 90% of the world's mining workforce is artisanal miners. In addition to the 45 million workers who make their living engaging directly in artisanal mining, the ASM sector indirectly supports an estimated additional …
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s response to artisanal …
The law introduced new exclusive artisanal mining areas, the Zone d'Exploitation Artisanales (ZEAs, Artisanal Mining Zones), with access granted through a carte d'exploitant …
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Mining-sector dynamics in an era of resurgent resource …
The article thus draws on recent work on changes in artisanal mining coming out of research on the Africa-China Informal Resource Trade (ACIRT) (see Schoneveld et al., 2018) …
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The DRC Mining Industry: Child Labor and …
More than half of the world's cobalt resources are located in the DRC, and over 70% of the world's cobalt mining occurs there. Artisanal miners produce 20% of the country's cobalt output. The remainder comes from …
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Assessing impacts of responsible sourcing initiatives for …
While this study observes that child labour occurs predominantly in ASM, it is also acknowledges that "disengaging from artisanal mining (reducing demand) can have …
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The precarious political economy of cobalt: Balancing …
A mining boom has thus been underway for critical metals needed to manufacture such technologies. Al Barazi et al. (2017) note that already, global cobalt demand jumped from …
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The role of artisanal and small-scale mining in China's …
In China, ASM contributes significantly to the supply and full utilization of resources; market competition in the resource sector; reducing transportation bottlenecks; and rural socio …
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China in Congo
I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mining industry. Several weeks ago here I reviewed Siddharth Kara's book "Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo …
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