Gaining access to a globally coveted mining resource: a case study in Burkina Faso

Min(d)ing the land: The relationship between artisanal and small-scale mining and surface land arrangements in the southern Philippines, eastern DRC and Liberia

“…Pijpers (2014) recently confirmed this observation, drawing attention to the existence of lease arrangements between farmers and miners in sub-Saharan Africa. In their ethnographic explorations of the west-African mining frontier, Grätz (2004), Werthmann (2009) and Mégret (2011) draw attention to the negotiated nature of ASM-sites, and provide an initial mapping of negotiation patterns between migrant miners and local settler communities. For one, the development of an artisanal mining site often has a phased nature.…”

Towards a negotiated solution to conflicts between large-scale and small-scale miners? The Acupan contract mining project in the Philippines

“…In addition to the well-reported conflicts between ASM and LSM in Tanzania (Carstens & Hilson, 2011) and Ghana (Hilson, 2002;Hilson & Yakovleva, 2007;Okoh, 2013;Patel et al, 2016), a range of other countries have also witnessed incidents between rights-wielding LSM-companies and ASM-operators (World Bank, 2009). Transcending this preoccupation with outright ASM-LSM conflict, several authors provide us with detailed, empirically rich case study evidence of ASM-LSM relations in countries like Tanzania (Chachage, 1995), the DRC (Geenen & Claessens, 2013) and Burkina Faso (Luning, 2008(Luning, , 2014Mégret, 2011). These accounts demonstrate that, rather than 'a simplistic contrasting of small-scale mining and large-scale mining' (Mégret, 2011: 394), ASM-LSM interactions often involve an entire range of actors and relations that cut across the ASM-LSM divide.…”