Needs of communities near mines in poor countries …
While mining continues to play a key role in economic growth of several resource-rich developing countries, in several cases this has generated only very limited …
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Mining bodies: The history of the South African mining industry and the
Mining bodies: The history of the South African mining industry and the bodies that are exploited On the 15th of October, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and Breathe Films, hosted a dialogue titled "Mining Bodies" in line with its mandate to address poverty and inequality as well as to …
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The matrix of the Philippine mining industry
This paved the way for further commercialisation, exploitation and degeneration of the Philippines. Large-scale copper mining reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s. By the late 80s, world demand for copper decreased in favour of gold. However, a number of gold mining companies closed down in that period because of law violations …
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The History of Mining in Africa
An evolving mining sector: historic enabler of progress in Africa. Africa has long exploited its mineral resources. In fact, the oldest mines in the world are to be found in Africa such as the Ingwenya mine in Swaziland, which was exploited 20,000 years ago for iron ores for rock paintings. In addition, there are thousands of ancient gold and ...
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Mining in Space Is Coming
Published April 26, 2021. Space exploration is back. after decades of disappointment, a combination of better technology, falling costs and a rush of competitive energy from the private sector has put space travel front and center. indeed, many analysts (even some with their feet on the ground) believe that commercial developments in the space ...
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Child Labour in Mica Mines: the Beauty Industry's dark secret
Illegal mica mining is associated with numerous dangers to children's health and safety. Constant exposure to dust can trigger respiratory illnesses, and spending hours digging in soil with their bare hands puts them at risk of skin infections and cuts. Moreover, the mines frequently collapse, threatening children's lives.
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Earth Day: Colonialism's role in the overexploitation of natural resources
Mining is a highly destructive endeavour towards our environment but demand for gems and minerals is non-stop; early colonial relationships continue to define these industries. ... They exploited ...
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Pacific Plunder: this is who profits from the mass extraction …
The scale of these extractive industries is also having significant social and health impacts on Pacific people. ... phosphate mining industry in the 1970s and 80s. ... exploited by those nations ...
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'Coal workers are orphans': the children and slaves …
As a result, the mining operation across the state is huge; at least 15,000 tonnes of coal are produced daily, selling for an of average 14,000 PKR (£70) per tonne. We work with no facilities, no ...
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Companies Struggle to Hire Miners as Industry …
In both underground and surface mines, workers operate heavy machinery as big as houses and deal with explosives. On the professional side, engineers, metallurgists and mine managers design and...
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The Role of Mining in the Economies of Developing Countries …
2 Mining and Development: Theoretical Rationales. The essence of the "development" argument for mining in developing countries is that the industry can contribute significantly to economic growth and generate revenues for host country governments. Economic growth is, as nearly all mainstream economists recognize, …
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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON EMPLOYMENT IN …
Mining activities have significant multiplier effects on the local and national economy through the creation of indirect and induced employment and business opportunities. …
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Mining industry in Africa
Africa is a major producer of many key mineral commodities, with bountiful reserves of metals and minerals such as gold, diamond, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, coal, and copper across the continent ...
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The climate case for a career in mining | Grist
The mining industry's poor reputation has arguably been earned. In many parts of the world, the industry has devastated local ecosystems, upended Indigenous …
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Mining industry and sustainable development: time for …
Mining industry and legacy impacts. Mining activities are not new and indeed may have started in Neolithic (Chalcolithic) times to obtain the first metals for tool fabrication (Reardon 2011). In the Classic Greece and in the Roman Empire, many mines were exploited for production of iron, lead, copper, gold, and other metals.
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The harsh realities of mining cobalt for EV batteries
In 2020, Reuters reported that Tesla inked a deal with Glencore to purchase a quarter of the mine's cobalt for its EV batteries, a move seen as an attempt to insulate it from allegations of ...
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Mining industry employment and talent challenges
That said, mining companies are experiencing a talent squeeze: 71 percent of mining leaders are finding the talent shortage is holding them back from delivering on …
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Children as young as seven mining cobalt used in …
More than half the world's supply of cobalt comes from the DRC, with 20% of cobalt exported coming from artisanal mines in the southern part of the country.In 2012, Unicef estimated that there ...
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Exploitation of Mineral Resources Requires Proper …
Exploitation of Mineral Resources Requires Proper People: Expectations of the World's Top Mining Companies. by. Dmitry A. Ruban. 1,2,*, Vladimir A. Ermolaev. 3 …
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Australia: employment in mining industry 2022 | Statista
Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 3, 2024. In financial year 2022, approximately almost 200 thousand people were employed in the mining industry in Australia. Mining is one of the ...
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Made for Next to Nothing. Worn by You?
Minimum wage for an eight-hour work day ranges from the equivalent of $3.08 (39 cents per hour for unskilled work in the state of Rajasthan) to $8.44 ($1.05 per hour for work in New Delhi ...
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Ghana
The mining industry is the largest tax-paying sector in the country and makes a significant contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) and employment. Ghana's mining sector pre-dates the colonial era. Historically, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast. Ghana is one of Africa's largest gold producers. Gold is the most commercially exploited ...
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Extractive industries and the environment: Production, pollution…
Likewise, China's booming rare-earth mining industry has covered large expanses of inner-Mongolia and the south-eastern Jiangxi Province with toxic tailings pools that pose a lasting danger to local people and animals (Lee and Wen, 2016). Many of the worst polluters have been situated in so-called developing countries, where regulations …
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Women in mining still exploited and sexually harassed
However, this theory does not consider people's individual differences and how their everyday behaviour, stereotypes and expectations can influence the occurrence of the phenomenon (Pina et al., 2009). ... Pretoria: Van Schaik. From the research, it is clear that women working in the core business of the mining industry are still exploited ...
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Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries
In 2014 approximately 40,000 children worked in mines across southern DRC, many of them mining cobalt, according to UNICEF. I would spend 24 hours down in the tunnels. I arrived in the morning and would leave the following morning. Paul, 14-year-old orphan and cobalt miner. Paul, a 14-year-old orphan, started mining at the age of 12.
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The Dark Side of Congo's Cobalt Rush | The New Yorker
The outcry over working conditions has led industry players to found the Fair Cobalt Alliance, an organization that, among other things, supports small-scale mining with safety equipment and clean ...
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How Uganda's mining industry ground to halt | Monitor
The fall. The mining sector once earned the country millions of dollars from the 1920s to early 1970s when political and economic chaos set in, and eventually ground to halt in the 1980s. By 1965 ...
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Uncommon ground: The impact of natural resource …
For purposes of this post, by "indigenous peoples" we follow Duffy (2008) 's four-part definition: "1. Indigenous peoples are the original inhabitants of territories subsequently invaded ...
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Mining industry employment and talent challenges | McKinsey
Mining is not currently an aspirational industry for young technical talent to join: there has been around a 63 percent drop in mining engineering enrollment in Australia since 2014, 7 and a 39 percent drop in mining graduations in the United States since 2016. 8. Recent public failures of the industry relating to safety, destruction of ...
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Ending Exploitation in the DRC's Deadly Cobalt Mines
The human and environmental destruction caused by mining in the DRC is staggering. Entire communities have been forced to leave their homes to make way for a …
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