Mobilising Natural Resources for Sustainable Development: Copper mining

The Zambian copper mining industry as we know it today had its genesis in the 1920s. Consistent private sector-driven investment in the industry over a period of over 50 years in exploration, mine ...

Environmental Impacts of the Mining Industry : A literature review

Based on a literature review, this article presents environmental impacts of the mining (also know as the extractive) industry. The article presents details of 11 main environmental impacts ...

(PDF) Environmental Impacts of Mining: A Study of Mining …

The mining sector in Ghana consists of both small-scale and large-scale mining, each of which has varying environmental impacts. This paper provides an exposition on the environmental impacts of ...

Socio-economic Impacts of China's Mining Investments in …

Zimbabwe's mining profile differs from many other countries in Africa, such as South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Ghana, that tend to rely on a much smaller range of minerals and fewer large-scale mines (Weng et al. 2018; Kaseke et al. 2015). As indicated, Chinese mining conglomerates have been venturing into the mining …

(PDF) Automation and digitalisation potentials of underground mining

Thesis for: Master of Science Sustainable Mining and Remediation Management; Advisor: Prof. Ing. Helmut Mischo, Dr. Ing. Georgios Barakos

Sustainable mining, local communities and …

impact assessment of the Ka unisvaara mining development (Ko ivurova et al. 2014, 60). Social sustainability is also a key factor for the developmen t of the mining industry (Suopajärvi et al ...

An assessment of the impact of mining on the …

This fact is acknowledged in the Government of Zimbabwe's five year development plan where mining and mineral beneficiation have been identified as an important development cluster. Mining is outlined as the lead sector based on its contribution to both the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and export earning having contributed nearly 20% and 60% ...

(PDF) Mining and the African Environment

TGM is generally a small-scale mining practice where traditional tools and manual labor are generally used for excavation during the mining activity (Canavesio, 2014;Hagos et al., 2016). ...

Gendering women's livelihoods in artisanal and …

mining sites nearby. Similarly, Buss et al. note that while many women and men miners. ... Dissertation, Vancouver, University of British Columbia. ... Mining and Development: ...

The Impacts of Mining Activities on Local Community …

development (Danquah et al, 2017). The mine development starts with Construction of access roads and required infrastructure, acquisition of mining equipment site preparation and clearing, selection of tunneling point (ADIT) (Hilson 2016). Proposed mining projects differ considerably in the proposed method for extracting

Dissertation Woman Mining

INTR 30805 – BA (Hons) International Relations Dissertation Academic Year 2009-2010 Mining and the Environment in Peru: A Gendered Pe ... approximately 55% of Peru's campesino or peasant communities lived on land influenced by mining (Bebbington et al. 2007: iv). The proliferation of mining concessions in the country is evidenced in Figure ...

I need some ideas and suggestions to define a PhD thesis …

I feel during mining operations there are chances for inducing larger ground movement and related impact on adjacent ground and structures always an important area for design point of view..so ...

(PDF) Policy Enabling Environment of Mining …

The Kenyan Mining Policy 2016, new Kenyan Mining Act 2016 and Petroleum Act 2019 suggest various ways through which players in the mining industry (especially mining corporations) can develop ...

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Data mining – …

This research program on data mining system is to set up through the methodology of PASSI and based on an agent, the contributions are: (1) Build up the structure and function of data mining system based on an agent society; (2) To prove the technology of the agent really works for data mining system environment through actual system operation ...

Dissertations / Theses: 'Local community development' – …

The research finds that mining-led development benefits men more than women due to the gender relations in the mining sector. Mining is traditionally considered a macho activity, which puts men at an advantage. ... Nel, E. L. "Regional and local economic development strategies in the Eastern Cape and guidelines for future development." Thesis ...

Mining Engineering Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Impacts of Longwall Mining on Groundwater Systems -- A Case of Cumberland Mine Panels B5 and B6, Xinzhi Du. PDF. Evaluation of ultrafine spiral concentrators for coal cleaning, Meng Yang. Theses/Dissertations from 2009 PDF. Development of a coal reserve GIS model and estimation of the recoverability and extraction costs, Chandrakanth Reddy ...

The Performance of the Zimbabwe Mining Sector in 2019

Ministry of Mines and Mining Development, Chamber of Mines and Zimbabwe Miners . Federation to initiate a dialogue and move . towards development-friendly solutions. Redollarisation.

[PDF] A review of studies on sustainable development in mining …

DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2019.05.029 Corpus ID: 164620126; A review of studies on sustainable development in mining life cycle @article{Asr2019ARO, title={A review of studies on sustainable development in mining life cycle}, author={Elmira Tajvidi Asr and R. Khaloo Kakaie and Mohammad Ataei and Mohammad Mohammadi}, journal={Journal of Cleaner …

The formalization of artisanal and small-scale gold …

small-scale gold mining in Colombia and its contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals . CORNELIA HAVEL . September 2017 . Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MSc in Sustainable Development for Distance Learning Students of the University of London, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy

Critical Mineral Mining and Sustainable Development in …

Collaboration between African nations and the mining industry is essential in order to mitigate these effects and support community development initiatives.

Mining Royalties: A Global Study of Their Impact on …

When there are windfall profits, citizens expect mining entities to contribute more to the government's coffers, in turn putting pressure on politicians to renegotiate mining contracts (Otto et al ...

Philippine Environmental Impact Assessment, Mining and Genuine Development

PDF | On Jan 1, 2009, Allan Ingelson and others published Philippine Environmental Impact Assessment, Mining and Genuine Development | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Data mining'

Al-Hashemi, Idrees Yousef. "Applying data mining techniques over big data." ... Therefore, especial data mining techniques for this kind of data need to be developed. This Ph.D. work focuses on the development of new data mining techniques for large sets of complex data, especially for the task of clustering, tightly associated to other data ...

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Copper industry and mining…

Building a mine in the current climate is shown to be far more complex and regulated than at the height of BC mining development when Premier W.A.C. Bennett (1952-1972) was in power. ... "The copper geographies of Chile and Britain : a photographic study of mining." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2016. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MINING METHOD …

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MINING METHOD SELECTION MODEL THROUGH A DETAILED ASSESSMENT OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION METHODS In the past decades, attempts were made to build a systematic approach to mining method selection (MMS) Ooriad et al, (2018). This is because MMS is a complex and irreversible process.

(PDF) Corporate social responsibility in the mining industry: …

In the specific case of multination al mining companies (MMCs) doing busi ness in. developing countrie s, ... development that the local co mmunity wants" (Kapelus, 2002, p. 291). Most of the

(PDF) THE IMPACTS OF DIAMOND MINING ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT…

2019, THESIS . This research seeks to assess the impacts or the effects of alluvial diamond on the development of communities in Chiadzwa Area. Thus, the research seeks to assess the challenges and problems that the communities in Chiadzwa Area faced from 2008-2017 which originated from the formalized diamond mining in Chiadzwa. 2009 marked a turnaround in the …

THE IMPACT OF MINING ACTIVITIES ON EDUCATIONAL …

This study was about the impact of mining activities on educational development. This is an introduction chapter of the problem which consists of the background of the study, statement …

(PDF) Mining, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security: A …

Minerals and Sustainable Development 58, Internation al Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); World Business Council for Sus tainable Development (W BSCD), viewed 29 January 2019.

Bridging Sustainable Development Gap in the …

134 Moses Nyakuwanika et al.: Bridging Sustainable Development Gap in the Gold Mining Sector of Zimbabwe: A Conceptual Framework on the Role that can be played by Microfinance Institutions