Artisanal small-scale gold mining presents opportunities for Uganda’s rural poor. However, it also poses serious environmental, health and safety challenges. A suite of data collection methods including interviews, focus groups discussions, water soils sampling were used to examine the perceptions miners on status, prevalence extent mercury use in artisanal mining, transit routes toxicity level...

Mining is an economic activity that involves extracting, exploiting, and using minerals for commercial purposes. Globally, its growth has been steady in recent decades due to the demand various luxury items industrial projects. The main objective of this research was describe classification mining activities Ecuador name according their treatment capacity. To respond objective, a bibliographic ...

The enormous increase in practically unregulated mining in Madre de Dios Peru is leading to massive release of liquid elemental mercury to the environment. Rapidly increasing global prices for gold are causing a massive upsurge in artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, considered to be one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. This study identifies the current levels of mercury in the ...

The burrata cheese is a traditional product from Southern Italy, consisting of an envelope of pasta filata (stretched curd) filled with cream and pasta filata strips (usually leftovers from mozzarella production). Physical [water activity (aw), pH], chemical (moisture, NaCl content) and microbiological [total viable count (TVC), Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., Yersinia enterocolitica, ...

In Ecuador, artisanal alluvial gold mining is generally carried out on the banks of rivers, which brings with it a number impacts environment that can be classified as negative, and among included generation effluents, deforestation primary forests, atmospheric emissions, polluting solid waste establishment communities without sanitation services. Therefore, observations were made in some sites...

Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry varied over time and while industrial is prevalent the country, expansion artisanal mining, or Galamsey escalated recent years. Many these mines are not only harmful to human health due use Mercury (Hg) amalgamation process, but also leave footprint on terrestrial ecosystems, degrading destro...