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Critical Mineral Mining and Sustainable Development in Africa By Mama Nissi Abanga Abugnaba A s a continent with abundant natural resources, such as large reserves of vital minerals, Africa could ... (Gilberthorpe, et al 2012). A major component of the agenda for sustainable mining has been set by the International Council on Mining and Metals ...
mining companies are unable to capture how their contributions to sustainable development change throughout the mining life cycle and across their operations. …
This research aims at providing an overview of the research field of digital literacy into learning and education. Using text mining, it reviews 1037 research articles published on the topic between 2000 and 2020. This review reveals that there is a plurality of terms associated with digital literacy. Moreover, our research identifies six key factors …
In addition, it was used the documents "Mapping Mining to the Sustainable Empowered Lives. Resilient nations. Development Goals: An Atlas" (World Economic Forum, 2016) and the Portuguese version of it "Atlas: Mapeando os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável na Mineração" (PNUD, 2017), which provides some …
Opinion mining, sometimes referred to as sentiment analysis, has gained increasing attention in software engineering (SE) studies. SE researchers have applied opinion mining techniques in various ...
Balusa et al. (2018a) used fuzzy AHP for mining method selection at Tummalapalle and Turamdih uraniums mines in India. Chander et al. (2018) used AHP and VIKOR for the selection of the optimal underground bauxite mining method. Balusa et al. (2018b) used AHP, WPM and PROMETHEE to determine the effective mining method for a bauxite …
The systematic review process co mprised of five steps: (i) to search terms. [ ("sustainability" or "sustainable development") a nd …
According to Rajaram et al. (2005), no mining operation can continue to be extracted forever and mining leads to the completion of non-renewable resources, which can have detrimental effects on the environment. Therefore, mining cannot fit in SD format; though, it could be considered sustainable if a balance is established between the three ...
In April 2011, the Ministry of Mining joined BHP Biliton and CODELCO (the National Copper Corporation of Chile) in a new program titled Strategy for the Development of …
Better assessment and reporting of the mining industry's contribution to sustainable development is essential for the mining industry to be able to manage the challenges …
The obtained results have shown limited improvement of sustainable development of hard coal mining industry in Poland in the analyzed period (an upward trend in the period 2007e2013 and a decline ...
In September 2015, the international agenda for Sustainable Development was published. 17 Sustainable Development Goals were defined to guide nations on their path towards eradicating poverty and achieving "sustainable development in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental— in a balanced and integrated …
#1 – The Opening Section. The very first essential ingredient for your dissertation introduction is, well, an introduction or opening section. Just like every other chapter, your introduction chapter needs to start by …
industrial and mining zone of the Copperbelt (Smart et al., 2015). With time, mining has spread to the North-Western Province of the country. The mining sector has undergone three main phases of ownership: first, private ownership under a …
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 …
Mining is a high-risk occupation and considered one of the oldest industries in the world (Jiang et al., 2017). Mining accidents, hazards, and disasters have a number of similarities in terms of their significant impacts on the victims (Lyra,2019), ... Promote the healthy development of productivity (Zhu et al., 2015) iv.
These workplace encounters of men and women sharing the mining space have become very common in many mineral-rich regions across the world. Images of mine workers in mine sites have become an important area of interest in much of the reporting on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) encounters (see, for example, …
Such issues include analysis of processes of negotiating resource governance and territorial rights (Bebbington et al., 2008, Hilson and Maconachie, 2008, Bebbington, 2012, Haalboom, 2012); understanding the nature and extent of mining conflicts in diverse contexts (Haarstad and Fløysand, 2007, Kuecker, 2007, Gordon and …
First, mining companies and projects are expected to ollow strong corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and part o the studies ocus on these local company practices (e.g., Lacey et al ...
A review of studies on sustainable development in mining life cycle. E. T. Asr, R. Kakaie, +1 author. Mohammad Mohammadi. Published in Journal of Cleaner Production 20 …
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.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global with the Web of Science™ enables researchers to seamlessly uncover early career, post-graduate research in the form of more than 5.5 million dissertations and theses …
4 Lin, et al. 2.2 Secondary Studies of Opinion Mining in Software Development Activities We identified eight secondary studies related to opinion mining in software development activities. The SLR conducted by Sánchez-Gordón and Colomo-Palacios [69] focused on works dealing with emotions of software developers.
In summary, this publication provides a wealth of descriptive information. In Chapter 2, it gives a general overview of mineral taxation. Chapters 3 and 4 provide a very insightful quantitative comparison of various types of royalties modelled on practical examples and the financial impacts they render under different physical, price and …
The present study relates to a large body of empirical literature on mining and development in Africa. Addison et al. (2 015) found that, overall, mi ning activities …
That Zimbabwe has a significant and diverse mineral resource base is not in doubt. With estimates that Zimbabwe has the second largest reserves of chrome and platinum after South Africa and potential to supply about 25% of the global diamond market, mining can play a catalytic role in Zimbabwe's economic revival, stabilization and eventual growth.
1. Introduction. Sustainable mineral resource development is referred to as the use of mineral resources for socio-economic purposes with the assurance of protecting the environment (Dobra et al., 2018).Unlike the traditional use of resources, researchers and institutions are actively engaged to bring improvement to the use of mineral …
The objective of this research is to discuss the congruence between mining activity and the SDG, starting from experiences of the scientific literature and the observation of one mining activity. For this purpose, the Web of Science and Scopus databases were used, with the keywords "sustainable development goals" and "mining".
2.4.3 Mining activities may decelerate educational development. Children in mining have become a focus of attention as its links to many of. forms of child labor on the African …
Materially, mining is central to sustainable development and central to achieving the SDGs. Many mining companies operate in environmentally sensitive and less developed areas and have contributed ...
Mining in Ghana is an important economic activity that can be traced back to the colonial times. Although it has contributed substantially to the national income purse, its benefits to the local populace have been of contestation because of the negative impact on the livelihoods of people who live close to mining areas.
3. Sustainable development studies in various stages of mining life cycle. 3.1. Stage 1: exploration and feasibility studies. These studies introduce methods in …
Mambou et al. [22] also reported high concentrations of Cu, Ni, and Cr in some sediments from artisanal mining sites, which were attributed to ion exchange and mining operations. Mimba et al. [25] used GIS technology to create geochemical maps of the heavy metals and observed that the spatial distribution of Ni and Cr was controlled …
directly host these mining activities. Such communities normally do not enjoy many of these widely spoken about advantages of natural resource extraction activities within
Mineral exploitation contributes significantly to economic growth and development in most world economies. In Africa, Ghana is the second largest gold producer, contributing to about 5.7% of the ...
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, …
%0 Conference Proceedings %T Argumentation Mining in Scientific Literature for Sustainable Development %A Fergadis, Aris %A Pappas, Dimitris %A Karamolegkou, Antonia %A Papageorgiou, Haris %Y Al-Khatib, Khalid %Y Hou, Yufang %Y Stede, Manfred %S Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining %D 2021 …
The main assumptions presented in this paper are the main assumptions that relate to the sustainable development of the mining sector, the ones that will significantly shape the development of ...