A Survey of Mining and Tailings Disposal Practices of Selected Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Companies in Ghana

Amedjoe, Chiri G.; Gawu, Simon K. Y.

doi:10.19026/rjees.5.5731

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“…Additionally, the superstitious belief in lucky and unlucky numbers plays a critical role in Chinese international trading (Chung et al, 2014), the housing market for Chinese origin people in other countries (Agarwal et al, 2014; Fortin et al, 2014; Rehm et al, 2018; Westjohn et al, 2017), and the stock market in the Philippines (Almonte, 2016). With the particular focus on gender, it has been revealed that women are prohibited from entering the areas where gold is handled in the mines of Ghana; the superstition leads people to consider that gold might be withdrawn while seeing these ‘unclean’ persons (Addei & Amankwah, 2011).…”

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Subjugation by superstition: Gender, small business and family in Bangladesh

Jaim

2023

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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This feminist research explores how superstition is used by in‐law's family to subordinate women business‐owners in a highly patriarchal developing context. Whereas the exploration of gender subordination regarding women's entrepreneurship is almost exclusively confined to developed nations, little is known regarding the way women are subjugated in managing their small businesses in a patriarchal developing nation. This research generates data by conducting a case study on a woman's business in Bangladesh. This study yields unique insights by unfolding a specific form of superstition that attempts to restrain a woman from continuing her small business. The paper reveals that the male relative caused a severe adverse impact on the personal life and business of the woman by employing superstition. With particular reference to superstition, this feminist study substantially extends the theoretical understanding of gender subordination within the context of small businesses of women in a highly patriarchal developing nation. The research strongly suggests policymakers to consider familial issues of women business‐owners in designing programmes to empower them effectively.

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Subjugation by superstition: Gender, small business and family in Bangladesh

Jaim

2023

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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“…The use of inefficient techniques in ASGM is quite common, either to mine the ore or process it, and also there are also issues related to environmental contamination by ASGM (Anticoi et al, 2015;Amedjoe and Gawu, 2013;Saim, 2021). Though ASGM tailings may be considered as an environmental pollutant, they contain considerable amount of unrecovered gold which can also serve as high-grade materials to some medium and large mining companies thus, when processed economically, can generate extra revenue and also increase annual gold production (Bansah et al, 2018b).…”

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Characterisation of Small-Scale Gold Mining Tailings in the Western Region of Ghana

Cobbinah,

Gbedemah,

Nurudeen

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On average, small-scale miners can recover gold ranging from 20% to 70% of the total available gold by the conventional gravity separation methods only. As a result of this, tailings materials from Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) operations contain a significant amount of gold, and characterisation of these materials would inform metallurgical decisions concerning reprocessing of the tailings from ASGM. In this study, size-by-size analysis, gold grade, gold deportment, and cyanidation studies were carried out on ASGM tailings samples collected from five different locations (Asankragua, Bogoso, Prestea, Wassa-Akropong, and Tarkwa) in the Western Region of Ghana. Head grades of tailings samples from Asankragua, Bogoso, Prestea, Wassa-Akropong, and Tarkwa were 1.84 g/t, 4.12 g/t, 0.45g /t, 0.17 g/t, and 5.97 g/t, respectively. The 80% (P80) of the tailings materials passed through 1.797, 0.578, 1.636, 3.210, 0.380 mm screen sizes for samples from Asankragua, Wassa-Akropong, Tarkwa, Prestea and Bogoso, respectively, with an average of 1.52 mm. Also, the gold deportment analysis revealed that the highest metal distribution of 42.03% in -106 µm size fraction for samples from Bogoso, followed by 31.0% for Wassa-Akropong, 29.7% for Tarkwa, 27.0% for Prestea, and 22.0% for Asankragua. It was shown after cyanidation test works that the highest gold recovery was 81.5%, 72.3%, 75.3%, 65.6%, and 38.5% for samples from Wassa-Akropong, Asankragwa, Prestea, Tarkwa, and Bogoso, respectively. Cyanidation can thus be employed to get higher gold recovery in ASGM.

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Sand winning in Dormaa as an interlocking of livelihood strategies with environmental governance regimes

Narh¹

2015

Environ Dev Sustain

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A Survey of Mining and Tailings Disposal Practices of Selected Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Companies in Ghana

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Subjugation by superstition: Gender, small business and family in Bangladesh

Subjugation by superstition: Gender, small business and family in Bangladesh

Characterisation of Small-Scale Gold Mining Tailings in the Western Region of Ghana

Sand winning in Dormaa as an interlocking of livelihood strategies with environmental governance regimes

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