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Greenland is a large country with an area of more than 2 million square kilometers. Although most of Greenland is covered by the Inland Ice, the ice-free part …
Erik and his Viking compats got right to work, killing the animals in droves and shipping off their precious tusks to mainland Europe. But a few hundred years later, in the 15th century, the ...
Tete-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the …
The African continent, with its 30,365,000 square km, is more than 14 times larger than the island of Greenland with its 2,166,000 square km. In fact the African content is larger than USA, China, India, …
""Abstract - Our understanding of the Norse dietary adaptations to their Greenlandic home comes primarily from sparse historical records, from what is known of the Norse dietary economy in other North Atlantic lands, and from zooarchaeological examinations of the animal bones found in the various excavations of Norse Greenlandic sites which have …
Near the southern tip of Greenland, lies the old mining town of Ivittuut, now a collection of ramshackle houses and sheds and scattered pieces of old machinery. Ivittuut was once the world's largest source of cryolite, an extremely rare mineral that was historically used in the extraction of aluminium from bauxite ore.
Infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa is crucial for social and economic progress. In Agenda 2063, the members of the African Union list infrastructure development as one of the greatest priorities of their member states (AU 2020).This is also reflected in various national development strategies, which aim to expand road networks …
A total number of 152 Lotha male stone quarry workers with age cohort 18-60 years and an ethnicity and age matching 152 adult males as the controls were selected for the present study.
This site is part of a network of digital infrastructure built by Code for Africa (CfA) as a free open source software for use by human rights defending organisations. Reuse it to empower your own communities. CfA is Africa's largest non-profit civic technology and open data catalyst, with labs across the continent.
Resource availability and extraction seem to present a paradox to most countries in the global south. It appears to be a curse rather than a blessing. Using the resource curse theory as a philosophical lens, this study qualitatively analysed the effects of the stone quarrying industry in the Wenchi municipality of Ghana. Using the case study …
The current demand for sand (approximately 9.55 Gt yr–1 in 2017) has a market value of US$99.5 billion23. This estimate has been projected to reach US$481 billion in 2100 …
Please refer to the Guidelines on preparing an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for mineral exploitation in Greenland. You can also find more information about the environmental aspects of mineral exploration and exploitation on this site.
With Greenland having vast and largely unexploited resource potential, it could be vital for tipping the scales in a trade war between global superpowers. ... 41 …
Natural resources are often recognised as a driver of conflict. Development minerals extraction instead provides a refuge for internally displaced peoples (IDPs) in …
"In this way, there is a pretty straight line from colonial exploitation to modern exploitation." British businessman Cecil Rhodes (center) founded the De Beers diamond company in South Africa ...
The history of European colonial exploitation in Africa is well documented in a number of studies. Footnote 6 The official explanation of European colonial conquest was the pursuit of the Dual Mandate—to develop or introduce light to the "dark" continent, and at the same time advance the economic interests of Europe. In reality, African ...
A quarry is a place where rocks, sand, or minerals are extracted from the surface of Earth.A quarry is a type of mine called an open-pit mine, because it is open to Earth's surface.Another type of mine, a subsurface mine, consists of underground tunnels or shafts.. The most common purpose of quarries is to extract stone for building materials. …
The application, commonly known as the Exploitation (§19) and Closure plan (§43), is subject to approval by the Government of Greenland. Exploitation plan The Exploitation plan is an overall plan describing the exploitation of the mineral deposit, including aspects of the infrastructure, geology, environment, fiscal, socio-economy, and health ...
Both of these sets of regulations were issued pursuant to Rwanda's 2008 mining and quarry law: Law No 37/2008 of 11 August 2008 on Mining and Quarry Exploitation. However, when Law No 13/2014 was adopted, it repealed Law No 37/2008 pursuant to which these regulations were issued, in language that makes no reference to the …
Numerous industrial pits are discarded after their exploitation in every part of the world. Humanity both transforms the original morphology of the landscape, due to industrial activity in the territory, and, at the same time, rejects this "new" situation. This is to the detriment of the landscape, which is witness to this transfiguration, degradation, and …
It was such a key site during the war, explains Barfoed, that around 500 U.S. soldiers guarded the mine and its 100 to 200 miners from the Nazis. "There were big …
Behind Greenland's largest travel site is the Visit Greenland that is owned by the Government of Greenland, who is responsible for marketing the country's adventures and opportunities for guests wishing to visit the …
The Burkinabe mining sector is largely driven by the exploitation of mining substances. The socio-economic impact of the exploitation of quarry substances has so far remained very low compared to that of mines. Twenty-seven (27) industrial exploitation permits including twenty-four (24) gold permits, one (01) zinc, one (01) manganese and one
06 Global Cement and Concrete Association 4. Operational Context 4.1 Scope and Principles Scope The guidelines are designed to be applicable to: • All quarry sites that are under a company's management control, including: new quarries ("green-field" projects), active quarries, inactive quarries, and
Exploring the Size of Greenland and Africa As a Traveling Chef, I have had the privilege of visiting many countries and experiencing their diverse cultures and landscapes. One question that often comes up in conversations is whether Greenland is really as big as Africa. While it may appear so on certain maps, the truth is …
Mingjie Stone owns and operates seven quarries in Namibia that supply the best white stone from the African continent to customers all over the world. The stone quarries in Namibia provide nine unique materials: Atlantic White, Namibia White, African Statuario, Mistery White, Misty White, Karibib White, Platinum Blue, Aus White, and Sky Blue.
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is home to the world's largest Indigenous population by percentage (~90%), living along the coastal margins of Earth's second largest ice sheet by volume 1,2 ...
The Malmbjerg Molybdenum Project (Figure 1) is an open pit pure molybdenum project ("Project") located within Greenland Resources exclusive mineral exploration license MEL 2018/11 in east central Greenland; ~30 km from the coast, ~ 600 km NW of Iceland and ~ 20 Km from Mestersvig airport (Figure 2). ... and had a previous exploitation license ...
The story of an African and Greenland. Kpomassie's fabled life story starts with a bit of chance and a book. The young Togolese was 16 when he bought anthropologist Robert Gessain's Les Esquimaux du Groenland à l'Alaska (The Eskimos from Greenland to Alaska) from a small bookshop in Lome. Immediately, the subject …
definitions concerning the types of mining waste, from both the exploitation and processing standpoints may differ in spite of a common glossary defined at the beginning of the study. For example, certain materials have an important recycling potential within a given environmental and economic framework and are not always considered locally as ...
4.1 What types of entity can own reconnaissance, exploration and mining rights? Under Article 23 of the Mining Code, the following are eligible for mining and quarry rights: any company governed by Congolese law that has its registered office and administrative office in the national territory and whose object relates exclusively to …
The most rapid growth in demand is expected in Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa. 2 In Greenland's proximal markets such as the ... Imports in northern …
Critical Metals launches drilling at Greenland rare earth project. The 14-hole drilling programme aims to upgrade the resource and the potential mine throughput. …