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Documents
This page provides a collection of documents and information
in relation to Small-Scale Mining.
Documents in PDF format require the Adobe Acrobat Reader software
that is free, and available for download, from the Adobe
website.
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Users who wish to contribute documents to this page should email
the material, preferably in MS Word, Adobe PDF or text formats,
to minerals.forum@unctad.org.
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Image:
Small Scale Mining.
Source: Norman Jennings,
ILO. |
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International
Labour Organization (ILO)
The ILO has been involved in mining
sector activities in relation to small scale mining, safety
and health, training and industrial relations. Work is also conducted
on the issue of child labour across a variety of sectors including
mining.
- Safety and Health in Small-Scale
Surface Mines: A Handbook - Manfred Walle and Norman
Jennings with illustrations by Rita Walle, ILO, 2001.
Available for download as an Adobe PDF (438KB) in English.
Also available in Espanol and Francais.
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A variety of other
documents on mining are available.
United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United
Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO)
United
Nations Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO)
UNIDO has been conducting a global programme on the Abatement
of Mercury in Artisinal Mining funded by the GEF and participating
countries. Project briefs and reports on earlier research in Ghana
and the Philippines is available. This information is made available
under a Global
Mercury Assessment programme coordinated by UNEP Chemicals Unit.
UNEP is developing a global assessment of mercury and its compounds,
including an outline of options for addressing any significant global
adverse impacts of mercury, to be presented to the UNEP Governing
Council at its twenty-second session in 2003.
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
The UN ECA, along with the UN DESA, organised a seminar on "Artisanal
and Small-scale Mining in Africa: Identifying Best Practices and
Building the Sustainable Livelihoods of Communities"
that was held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from 19-22 November 2002.
The following documents are availabe from this seminar:
Synthesis
Report (Word 204Kb) - Beatrice Labonne
Synthesis
Report Cover Page (Word 628Kb)
Yaoundé
Vision Statement (Word 68Kb)
United
Nations University
(UNU)
The following documents are available through the UNU website.
World
Bank Group
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The Mining,
Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project examined
small-scale mining issues.
MMSD
Southern Africa
Research
reports are available on the topics of: Small Scale Mining,
HIV/AIDS, Mining and Society, Biophysical, Managing Mineral Wealth,
Biophysical, and a Baseline Survey. The small-scale mining reports
are:
In addition, the Proceedings
of a Multi-Stakeholder Workshop to discuss the research findings
are available.
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| Intermediate Technology Development
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The Intermediate
Technology Development Group (ITDG) is an international non-governmental
organization which specializes in helping people to use technology
for 'Practical Answers to Poverty'. Based in the United Kingdom,
the group works in the regions of Latin America, East Africa, Southern
Africa and South Asia focusing on small-scale mining, in addition
to agriculture, transport, shelter, disaster mitigation and energy
technologies.
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The Mandala
Projects is a collection of cross-disciplinary efforts to examine
the effects of globalization on people. The Trade
and Environment Database (TED) and Inventory
of Conflict and Environment (ICE) are two projects under this
banner. Each consists of a series of case studies, research papers
and other information on the areas of trade, conflict, environment,
culture, etc. The following documents are taken from these databases
and relate specifically to the mineral industry and Africa.
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| Miscellaneous Documents |
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- Small-scale
gold mining in Cambodia A Situation Assessment. (2004). Author:
Sieng Sotham. Department of Geology, (DoG) General Department
of Mineral Resources (Ministry of Industry Mines, and Energy,)
Cambodia. Edited and compiled by Dr. Carl Middleton Additional
research contributed by the NGO Forum on Cambodia’s Environmental
Forum Core Team. (Adobe PDF)
- Poverty Alleviation
in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: A Proposal for an Integrated
Sustainable Artisanal Small Scale Mining Community Development
(MS Word Exec
Summary - 228KB, Part
1 - 1.5MB and Part
2 - 1.1MB) - A proposal by Kalimantan Surya Kencana Ltd aimed
at poverty alleviation in northern part of the Province of Central
Kalimantan, Indonesia. The proposed project seeks to develop and
integrate artisanal mining into an existing but expanded community
development programme in a remote area of Indonesia. A brochure
(Adobe PDF) is also available on Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta (YTS),
established by PT Kalimantan Surya Kencana (KSK) in 1998, to encourage
and faciliate community development programmes.
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Boom
in Ghana's golden enclave: Major new investments boost output,
but environmental concerns are growing - Kwabena Mate, Africa
Recovery, Vol.11#3 (February 1998), page 11 (part of Country
Focus: Ghana)
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Impact
of Mining Sector Investment in Ghana: A Study of the Tarkwa
Mining Region - Thomas Akabzaa and Abdulai Darimani, Report
prepared for SAPRIN,
January 20, 2001. (PDF)
- Ghana
Country Report - Akua Britwum, Kwesi Jonah, and Ferdinand
D. Tay, SAPRIN
Tripartite National Steering Committee, Accra, August 25, 2001.
Features section on mining sector based on the above report, as
well as comments from the final workshop and recommendations.
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