Governing the artisanal gold mining sector in the …
The Sierra Leone Mines and Minerals Act 2009 requires holders of small or large scale mining licenses to assist in developing mining host communities and promote the general welfare and quality of life of the …
Artisanal mining policy reforms, informality and …
6. Conclusion As we have seen, the governance of Sierra Leone's artisanal and small-scale mining sector has evolved considerably since the end of the country's conflict, in large part due to a set of reform interventions carried out …
A journey through Sierra Leone
I'm delighted to share that Mickey Brookshire and I have been in Sierra Leone West Africa for a week now, taking an unprecedented step towards implementing alternatives to mercury use in gold mining, a research mission …
Identifying human health risks from precious metal mining in Sierra Leone
The Pampana River is one of many rivers in Sierra Leone that have become heavily polluted due to gold mining in its headwaters (Akiwumi 2014; Kamara 2015; Chimange 2018). Active and abandoned gold mining operations vary from commercial mining operations up to several square kilometers in size to local small-scale artisanal mining operations.
Republic of Sierra Leone
Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an important source for job creation, poverty allevi- ation and broad-based socio-economic development in Sierra Leone and in other parts of the world. However, the sector, which is largely informal, is associated with …
Investigation into the Impacts of Artisanal Gold …
Artisanal gold mining has a long history in Sierra Leone. Mining is the most important economic activity in the communities endowed with minerals. ... (2011) The Role of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods …
Business Plan for Small Scale Mining in Sierra Leone
DIAMOND AND GOLD MINING PROJECT IN SIERRA LEONE [pic] 9.25 CT DIAMOND FROM SIERRA LEONE CONTENTS 1. GENERAL 2. INITIAL REQUIREMENTS GENERAL For the last 2 years our company has been closely following the Sierra Leanean diamond "Industry" if …
Sierra Leone: mining licence process map
A Small-Scale Mining license is issued for three years and renewable for another three-year period; A Large-Scale Mining license is awarded for an initial period of twenty five years and renewable for a further fifteen years. For small- scale mining, the maximum allowable area per license is 100 hectares.
Artisanal mining policy for sierra leone
"Small-scale mining" means the intentional mining of minerals in mechanized operations not exceeding twenty meters in depth or involving the sinking of shafts, driving of adits, or other …
Sierra Leone | Pact
Pact is playing a key role in improving Sierra Leone's burgeoning artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector, which provides critical livelihoods but is largely informal and associated with a range of social and environmental challenges, including mercury use.Pact is helping to kick-start implementation of the government's National Action Plan to reduce mercury usage in the gold …
Farmland Loss and Livelihood Effects: Diamond and Gold Mining
Mining businesses are problematic in developing countries because they intrude on farming ecologies, rendering arable lands almost unavailable to farmers and making them unproductive. This paper expounds on the impact of agricultural land loss on mining activities in Kenema, as farming is the primary source of income for the locals; nevertheless, small-farm …
What Are The Biggest Industries In Sierra Leone?
A total of 21 mining companies were active in Sierra Leone in 2011 bringing in an estimated $12 million. ... and small scale and artisanal precious mineral production which primarily focus on diamonds and gold. The mining sector witnessed a decline due to the outbreak of the civil war that started in 1991 with the sector resuming full ...
West Africa's artisanal gold mining sector: An overlooked …
Focusing on Sierra Leone and Liberia, the locations of two of West Africa's most buoyant and dynamic artisanal mining sectors, we undertook an 18-month study to better understand how individuals engaged in artisanal gold mining manage their finances and draw upon their social networks to negotiate the informal structures of the sector.
Artisanal Gold Miners in Sierra Leone Get Their First
"Sierra Leone's burgeoning artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector provides critical livelihoods for women and young men in a place where viable income-generating options are few," according to Pact.
Migration, authority and the gendered organization of …
Recent studies of migration into artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) have explored the motivations, strategic agency and professional trajectories of women and men miners who move to mine. ... Migration, authority and the gendered organization of labour in artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique) Volume 92, Issue 3; Blair ...
Country Reports
Rapid Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector in Sierra Leone. In 2021, the AGC undertook a study on the impacts of COVID-19 on the ASGM sector in Sierra Leone. This report …
XRF Elemental Analysis of the Gold Ore of …
central Sierra Leone, owned and operated by FC Gold. It is one of the largest pre-production gold assets in the country. The project is expected to pour its first gold in 2025. Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) still remain one of the oldest mining industries in Sierra Leone; second only to diamond.
Follow the Money: Financial flows linked to artisanal and small scale …
Follow the Money: Financial Flows linked to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Sierra Leone 33. DIG100916m: Interview with mine labourer, Kono (Mine Site 1), 10 September 2016.
Follo oney Financial Flows linked to Artisanal and …
Follo oney Financial Flows linked to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Sierra Leone 1 Executive Summary Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has largely been dismissed as an economically insignificant, subsis-tence based activity in Sierra Leone. This is in sharp contrast to the artisanal diamond sector, which has historically
De Beers expands pilot scheme in Sierra Leone to …
After training ASM in 16 mine sites across Sierra Leone on how to use provided tablets to digitally track their diamonds throughout the supply chain, De Beers has extended the pilot to work with ...
Overview of Gold Mining in Sierra Leone
Gold mining in Sierra Leone has been an economic activity for centuries. However, modern mining techniques and investments have led to an increase in gold production in the country. ... Sierra Leone also has a number of small …
(PDF) Agriculture and artisanal gold mining in …
hindering the establishment of sustainable livelihoods in small-scale agriculture in Sierra Leone. The emergence of the artisanal gold mining and trading sector in the central part of the country
(PDF) Overview of child labour in the artisanal and small-scale mining
Small-scale mining also includes all lower segments of mining (both non-mechanised and mechanised) that are not conventional industrial mining operations. Child labour in artisanal mining ...
Establishing Sierra Leone's first formal gold …
Sierra Leone's burgeoning artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector provides critical livelihoods for women and young men in a place where viable income-generating options are few.
Artisanal Gold Miners in Sierra Leone Get Their …
Sierra Leone's nascent artisanal and small-scale gold mining industry is moving to reduce mercury across the sector with the formalization of its first association for responsible trade. A new government-sponsored …
Artisanal Gold Mining: A New Frontier in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone …
Abstract This paper argues that a formalised small-scale gold mining sector could ameliorate Sierra Leone's emerging 'crisis of youth'. Burgeoning pockets of unemployed young men now found scattered throughout the country, the mobilisation of whom proved instrumental in prolonging civil war in the 1990s, have fuelled fresh concerns about renewed violence.
No pot of gold for locals as China mines Sierra Leone
Gold mining has been a relatively small industry in Sierra Leone compared to diamonds or iron ore, but is growing with companies such as Dayu, which says it has the biggest underground gold mine ...
(PDF) Agriculture and artisanal gold mining in …
This article explores a number of the productivity and marketing difficulties that are hindering the establishment of sustainable livelihoods in small-scale agriculture in Sierra Leone.
Identifying human health risks from precious metal …
Identifying human health risks from precious metal mining in Sierra Leone Richard A. Marcantonio1,2 & Sean P. Field2 & Papanie Bai Sesay3 ... its headwaters at Lake Sonfon in the northeast—an area with both active and abandoned gold mining sites—to its confluence ... size to local small-scale artisanal mining operations. In the extraction ...
Follow the Money: Financial flows linked to artisanal and …
This chapter provides a comparative review of the interfaces between artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and organized crime in Latin America and Africa, focusing …