introduction development of natural resources and mining activities are prerequisite for economic and industrial growth in many countries. in many cases, such mining areas lie within residential or agricultural lands or natural habitats intensifying the contradiction between land use and environmental protection. different components of mining activities including exploration, extraction and pr...

This paper analyzes factors affecting the risk of malaria among individuals working in wildcat gold mining camps (garimpos) in northern Mato Grosso State in the Brazilian Amazon. Historically, such mining camps have the locations with the highest malaria prevalence in the Brazilian Amazon. However, little attention has focused on understanding the disease from the internal perspective of the mi...

For gold, the most promising elements for provenance are Platinum Group Elements (PGE), Sn, Te, Sb, Hg, Pb, but also high melting point elements, such as Ta and Nb. Small fragments of native Carpathian gold placer and primary were studied using Synchrotron Radiation X-Ray Fluorescence at ANKA synchrotron. The goal of the study was to identify the trace elements, especially Sn, Sb and Te. The me...

Solok Selatan is already known as an area that has potential precious metal, Gold. Local mining scale can be found on site certain areas in Abai Region, especially the North, which was previously believed to exist presence of these minerals. Based consideration associated mineral associations gold, course other metals deserves further investigation such Copper (Cu), Silver (Ag), Lead (Pb), Zinc...

Mining activities induce profound changes to societies and the environment they inhabit. With global extraction of metal ores doubling over past two decades, pressures related mining have dramatically increased. In this paper, we explore where growing has particularly taken effect. Using fine-grain data, investigate spatial temporal distribution nine (bauxite, copper, gold, iron, lead, manganes...

The area underlain by the Barkerville Terrane has an important exploration and mining history dating from the discovery of placer gold on Keithley Creek in 1860. Placer gold production peaked in the 1860s, but continues at a modest scale to the present time. Lode gold production came mainly from the Wells mining camp, located near some of the richest placer streams in the district, between 1933...

About 12 miles to the northeast of Carrizozo lies the “ghost town” of White Oaks. This once thriving mining community rests in a small valley surrounded by three wrinkled and rounded mountain peaks: the remains of a ancient cluster of laccoliths (see attached Figure 1). To the northwest lies Lone Mountain with its associated peak, Baxter Mountain, while to the southeast lies Patos Mountain and ...

BACKGROUND An estimated 0.5 to 1.5 million informal miners, of whom 30-50% are women, rely on artisanal mining for their livelihood in Tanzania. Mercury, used in the processing gold ore, and arsenic, which is a constituent of some ores, are common occupational exposures that frequently result in widespread environmental contamination. Frequently, the mining activities are conducted haphazardly ...