Illegal small-scale mining has long proliferated across Ghana, Africa's second and the world's tenth largest gold exporter. But recent foreign investment coupled with industrialisation has significantly exacerbated its negative effects.

Gold Mining and the Environment. Dirty gold mining has ravaged landscapes, contaminated water supplies, and contributed to the destruction of vital ecosystems. Cyanide, mercury, and other toxic substances are regularly released into the environment due to dirty gold mining. ... Beyond Conflict Free Diamonds TM Beyond Conflict Free Diamonds TM ...

To ensure that legitimate artisanal mining communities can benefit from ongoing trade in conflict-affected and high-risk areas and to support their development The OECD also seeks to cooperate with initiatives such as the Global Mercury Partnership to work on the reduction of mercury use for gold …

 · 'Unprecedented' developments for Sudanese gold, but critics warn of the links between the mineral and the deadly conflict in the country On July 29th the Sudanese government and Russian counterparts signed an "unprecedented" gold exploration agreement between the Sudanese Ministry of Minerals and the Russian Siberian Mining Company Limited.

Whether it's Mexico's gold or Zimbabwe's diamonds, mining is riven with violence and business is complicit ... Swiss companies had been buying gold said to originate in Togo, a country that ...

Conflict continues at Kyrgyzstan's massive gold mine. ... which has been operating for nearly two decades, is the largest open-pit mining operation in Central Asia, ...

Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana Gordon Crawford Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, Coventry, UK Correspondence [email protected]

Mining, Environment and Community Conflicts: A Study of Company-Community Conflicts over Gold Mining in the Obuasi Municipality of Ghana Seth Opoku Mensah1, Seth Asare 2Okyere 1 ... gold mining sector has remained one of the most significant in shaping local

Mining, forest change and conflict in the Kivus, ... May 2008. Mining, forest change and conflict in the Kivus, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Outcome of a short study within the IES-ESPA programme May 2008 Institute for Environmental Security Anna Paulownastraat 103 ... Open mining of coltan and gold causes deforestation and water ...

The Kyrgyz Republic is rich in gold and other minerals. And so the mining industry is one of the biggest parts of the country's economy, responsible for about 10 percent of the total GDP and over 40 percent of its export earnings. To ensure that the mining industry is accountable and transparent ...

Conflict Minerals in Europe ; River of Gold ; War in the Treasury of the People: Afghanistan, lapis lazuli and the battle for mineral wealth ... River of Gold – one year on, much talk but little has changed ... exposing the links between Chinese gold mining companies and armed groups in eastern Congo - and disappointingly little has been done ...

Togo - First Phase of the Mining Governance and Development Project (English) Abstract. The development objective of the First Phase of the Mining Governance and Development Project for Togo is to streamline the institutional arrangements of key organizations in the extractive industries to strengthen their efficiency and accountability ...

These challenges are magnified by continual in-migration of people from surrounding areas seeking economic opportunities from small-scale gold mining, and from a scarcity of arable land for farming and other traditional livelihoods.

gold mining conflict in togo. Mining industry of Togo Wikipedia. The mining industry of Togo is centred mainly around the extraction of phosphate, ranking it 19th in world production.

Ghana's police arrest 51 Nigeriens and at least four other West Africans suspected of illegal gold mining, an immigration spokesman tells the BBC. ... 51 were from Niger, three from Togo and one ...

 · The company, which has gold mining operations in Australia, officially became a cash-generative mining company in March. Majority stake sought in Moz limestone project

that Sudan's gold industry is "conflict affected" but applying that designation to gold originating from Sudan remains within the purview of individual companies. The dramatic rise of artisanal gold mining throughout Sudan has altered the

Taken together, the data suggest that Dodd-Frank and the mining ban were effective at slowing 3T mining within the targeted conflict-mining zone but less effective at slowing gold mining. There are two main reasons why gold production rose despite its official status as a "conflict …

Mining did not play a significant role in the economy of Central African Republic. The only minerals of economic importance were diamond and, to a lesser extent, gold. In 2012, the country was ranked 12th amongst the world's leading producers of rough diamond by volume and 10th in terms of ... CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND TOGO—2012 8.3

Jo Kassel, Thomas Mattera, & Ben Heider is raising funds for Blood Red Gold: Mining, Development and Conflict in Peru on Kickstarter! A film that shares firsthand accounts of how resource extraction affects the economy, the environment and the people in Peru.

| Leading contractor in mining . EPC Togo has long standing history of civil engineering projects within several countries in West-Africa like Nigeria, Benin and the Ivory Coast.

Profits from gold mining, as well as mining of minerals including cassiterite, columbite-tantalite and wolframite, fund the ongoing conflict in the country. [9] Discoveries of gold in a region can lead to "rushes" of migration, particularly in areas where people have lost other livelihood options.

'Conflict gold' was on the agenda of the 2013 African Mining Indab. However, the corporate definition of what is conflict gold may be more narrrowly in their self-interest, especially where they can 'name & blame' the problem as one of poor artisanal miners. Although that may be true in places such ...

Nothing will be as before: Shifting political opportunity structures in protests against gold mining in Burkina Faso ... In an empirical analysis of conflicts over gold mining in Burkina Faso—one of the sub-Saharan countries where the extractive sector is currently ... because it is smuggled overland into neighbouring Togo and from there into ...

Rolake Akinkugbe, a natural resources expert at Ecobank, a Togo-based pan-African bank, says that growth in gold and iron ore production this year should place those sectors close to the ...

Northern La Paz – Fifteen years ago, ex-miner Pedro Espinoza decided to leave behind gold mining and go to live in the middle of a forest in the Yiquimuni area, along the Kaka River, north of La ...

How to avoid being caught in a common gold scam. David Levenstein | Mar. 20, 2012, ... We are the best in local mining in the history of mining in Ghana, we can supply up to 100kg per month, and ...

 · Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand. ... Digging for Gold: Conflict in The Congo - Equator - BBC BBC Studios. ... 911 Mining …

The Mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a significant factor in the world's production of cobalt, copper, diamond, tantalum, tin, and gold as well. It is the Democratic Republic of the Congo 's largest source of export income.

Gold is now one of the most problematic conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and United Nations Security Council sanctions on the illegal mining of natural resources, including gold, have done little to prevent smugglers from profiting, says a new report from a German ...

Six people, five of them police, were killed in a "terrorist" bomb and gun attack near a gold mine in eastern Burkina Faso, the defense ministry said. ... Boungou gold mine, Burkina Faso, operated by Canadian mining company SEMAFO. ... beginning in the north of the country but now spreading to the east, near the border with Togo and Benin ...

War Resisters' International. ... Just to give two examples of mining-induced displacements among so many others: the gold mining in Ghana and the illegal exploitation of diamonds and coltan[1] in the war torn Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Niger, Zambia and Togo – a two-fold curse for local communities, not only causing physical ...

Project: Togo – Mining Governance and Development project Press Release: Togo's Efforts to Promote an Effective Management of the Mining Sector get World Bank's Support Media Contacts

Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining in ... and Chinese miners engaged in contestation and conflict over access to gold, as well as collusion and ... neighbouring countries in West Africa, for instance Burkina Faso and Togo, having migrated across