The process of issuing mining business permits requires caution, this is because mining activities have both positive and negative impacts. Positive mining activities encourage economic growth ...
The impact on the social economy can be either positive or negative [12][13] [14].However, the environment is negatively impacted through loss of biodiversity, dust pollution, water pollution ...
Highlights. •. Social impacts of the mining sector can be assessed using different indicators sets. •. A literature review identifies the main social impacts occurring …
Socio-Economic and Envir onmental Impacts of Copper Mining Development in Meatu Distric t Tanzania, East African Journal of Social and Applied Scie nces, 1(2), 147 - 160 . Babune, G. J. (2019).
Socially, the impacts of sand and gravel mining have increased the awareness and participation of people and authorities, and social interaction with the …
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In their view, these resources have the potential to help drive socio-economic development to advance the goal of eliminating poverty as sand and gravel …
Various other indicators cited in this paper are designed to give some idea of the wider socio-economic trends that have affected miners and their families in one way or another. ... it looks at some of the possible future developments in the mining sector. ECONOMIC IMPACT. ... gold at 18%, iron ore at 10%, diamonds and other non-metallic ...
how mining activities impact the environment. To suggest interventions that can assist in mitigating the negative impacts of mining. This study was based upon the following hypotheses: 1) that mining activities have significant socio-economic impacts on livelihoods of local communities; 2) that
Anura Widana. Tractebel. Abstract and Figures. This literature review addresses on socio-economic and political impacts of …
The economic importance of minerals continues to increase in Ghana as the purchase price of agricultural raw products experience wide fluctuation of prices on the international market. Today, mineral products have overtaken cocoa and other traditional export products in foreign exchange earnings. The dominating minerals — gold and diamond ...
Using the detailed data available for the minerals sector, an analysis is carried out of the current situation for 2014, and of trends in mining's contribution to economic development for the years 1996–2014. The contribution of minerals and mining to gross domestic product and exports reached a maximum at the peak of the mining boom in 2011.
Kitula, A.G.N., 2006, 'The environmental and socio-economic impacts of mining on local liv elihoods in Tanzania: A case study of Geita District', Journal of Cleaner
mining required systematic and organized work of exploitation of mineral and all related aspects, with proper usage of science and technology. Keywords: Environmental Impacts and its Management at Open Cast Iron Ore Mine, Mitigation Against Population Growth, Socio-Economic Benefits, Monitoring Schedule. I. INTRODUCTION
Specific objectives were to: examine people's perception of impacts of gravel mining on their socio-economic activities, assess the impact (in terms of duration after gravel pit abandonment) on above-ground vegetative biomass (trees, shrubs grasses and litter) and assess major soil physicochemical property changes of abandoned gravel mines.
Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Sand Mining in Mbiuni Ward, Mwala Constituency, Machakos County, Kenya August 2022 East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources 5(1):278-288
1. To assess the positive socio-economic impacts of sand harvesting in the study area. Research Question. 1. Ho: There is a significant positive effect of sand harvesting along the riparian land. Significance of the study The study will make an important contribution to the understanding of the socio economic impacts of sand
There are however some social negative impacts associated with mining including violence, child labour, escalation of gender inequalities, health and environmental effects including deforestation and pollution. In this section, the focus will be on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). However, environmental impacts of industrial sand …
exploration to the post-mining stage, of course, it will greatly affect the environment. Because when an area is opened into a mining location it will damage the existing ecosystem. The research results of Upe et al. (2019) show that mining activities have caused large impacts, including social, economic, and ecological impacts.
The overriding objectives were to assess local perception of the environment and socio-economic impacts of mining in their communities. To achieve this, 50 respondents were selected using a ...
long histories of mining, benefits came from foreign direct investment (FDI), export revenues, and fiscal revenues. The overall impact of the mining sector was much …
A new study led by researchers at McGill University and the University of Copenhagen states that the human and environmental costs of sand and gravel extraction in lower and middle-income countries have, so far, been overlooked.. According to the scientists, sand and gravel are the most mined materials in the world, with between 32 …
In 2015, Davi and Rongmei, having surveyed the impacts of sand mining in the region of Manipur on the river Aymfl, besides referencing negative environmental impacts of sand and gravel mining, additionally shows the positive impacts on workers' income as one of the important activities in economic development (Devi and Rongmei, …
Selling nickel ore through direct shipment to China, Japan, and other Asian countries is its major marketing ... 1. Assessment of the socio-economic impact of mining companies on their host ...
The China Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis (CEEPA) model adopted in this study is a multi-sector dynamic recursive CGE model that has been widely used to study the socio-economic impacts of energy and environmental policies such as carbon taxes (Liang and Wei, 2012; Wang and Liang, 2015; Liang et al., 2016), …
Mwakumanya MA, Maghenda M, Juma H (2016) Socio-economic and environmental impact of mining on women in Kasigau mining zone in Taita Taveta County. J Sustain Min 15(4):197–204. Article Google Scholar Namasaka M, (2018). The economic contributions of artisanal and small-scale mining in Kenya: gold and …
The mining sector's role in socio-economic development is documented in secondary data sources i.e. national accounts, fiscal data, chamber of mines annual reviews etc., however, at the micro-level, limited information is available regarding the mining sector's socio-economic impact. This
This article examines the socio-economic and environmental impacts of gravel mining in the community of San Pedro, Ecuador. Data collection from primary sources was carried out through a case study of the community by means of …
Coastal Sand Mining (including gravel) is the general term used to define the extraction of loose, non-cohesive granular particles of geological origin with 0.05–2 mm size (sand) and 2–63 mm size (gravel) from all the environments belonging to coastal systems (i.e., beaches, dunes, bluffs, cliff, deltas, barriers, and related submerged ...