CEESP News: by Laine Munir * Our ethnography examines how Rwanda's current process of formalization and regulation of mining may impact rural women's experiences with environmental, structural, and physical conflicts near extraction sites. In light of COVID-19's socioeconomic effects, our analysis now also interrogates the …
This is the first book-length publication on illegal extraction, trafficking in mined commodities, and ecocide associated with mining. It will appeal to scholars working on organized crime and green crime, including criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and legal scholars. Practitioners and the general public may welcome this ...
Indigenous villages say they are under attack, as illegal mining and armed violence in the jungle rise.
The impact of mining on the Environment in Gwanda District Zimbabwe: A case study of Blanket Mine 1Maligana Mathe and 2Anthony Phiri 1,2 Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Science and …
More than 40 illegal miners have so far been arrested during a high-level multidisciplinary operation, targeting illegal mining operations on Gauteng's West Rand.
A mining accident killed five people, on Friday July 3, in Muhororo sector of Ngororero District. It is alleged that the deceased had sneaked into a quarry known to have minerals to mine illegally ...
Now, a comprehensive satellite survey spanning 4 decades shows river mining has surged over the past 20 years and today affects 173 large rivers in 49 countries. The work, presented last month at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, shows levels of suspended sediment have doubled, compared with premining levels, in …
Violence in Brazil's Amazon is increasing, with tens of thousands of illegal miners in protected areas.
Most recently, foreign criminals have focused on gold mining. In the banditry-affected communities of Nigeria's north-west and central areas, loose criminal networks engaging in illegal gold mining have ties to foreign actors and facilitate trafficking flows. Most criminal markets for gold in the country are driven by foreign demand but are …
The study identified two key related factors that drive illegal mining in Ghana. First, the mines are transient but getting a mining licence is time-consuming. Second, the regulatory framework ...
Academic analyses have largely focused on cobalt's potential for mine supply disruptions, as well as the social and humanitarian problems associated with artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC. Artisanal mining is outside the scope of this analysis largely due to the dearth of information on production.
Nigeria's government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country's lithium, a critical mineral used in ...
Despite Assam CM's assurances to stop it, an India Today NE ground investigation has found rampant illegal coal mining, including rat hole mining, at the Ledo-Margherita areas of Tinsukia district, which is part of Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve.
However, referring to the mining legislation regime in Indonesia 3/2020, illegal mining is conceptualized as the crime of conducting mining without a license (Article 158) and the crime of conducting production operations in the exploration stage (Article 160, paragraph 2). This type of criminal offense causes economic losses through …
It is time for the international community to step in to combat Rwanda-backed illegal mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, attendees at the FT Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne heard.
Demand for minor minerals such as sand and gravel has crossed 60 million metric tons in India. While laws and monitoring have been made stringent for the mining of major minerals consequent to the unearthing of several related scams across the country, rampant and illegal mining of minor minerals continues unabated.
In recent years, the mining industry has struggled to turn a profit due to a slowdown in demand from China's economy and an oversupply from producers. South Africa's mining companies, who ...
The illegal gold mines killing rivers and livelihoods in Ghana. Sixty percent of Ghana's water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining activities. Ghana is the leading producer of ...
According to America's Quarterly, illegal mining activity means that there is usually an absence of land rights, mining licenses, exploration or mineral transportation permits. Without these permits, there are no independent bodies to regulate mining procedures and all the high-risk activities that come with it.
The high involvement of sophisticated criminal networks in illegal gold mining and the transnational dimension of illegal mining and associated crimes also pose challenges for law enforcement, who sometimes lack the necessary resources to combat this crime threat effectively.
Artisanal and small-scale mining is a significant economic sector in Rwanda. Mining activities often use a watercourse, in which secondary extraction takes place and minerals are washed. Mining thus …
In the DRC's artisanal mining sector—which exists alongside the formal mining industry—children and adults toil underground for hours in dangerous tunnels, using sticks or makeshift tools to mine for the cobalt-rich mineral heterogenite.
Inside Marsabit's dangerous illegal gold mines. Drone shots of Illo gold mine fields in Moyale sub-county on May 27, 2023. Residents want mining activities to be closed by the government citing environmental, health, and security risks posed to the region. In the belly of at least 5,000 acres in Illo, Dabel division, Moyale sub-county, lies …
Mining in Rwanda started in the early 1930s and since then the mining sector has undergone wide reforms and is now Rwanda's second-largest export revenue earner in the country. In 2017, the sector generated $373.4 Million of foreign exchange. Rwanda's mineral resources include Cassiterite, Coltan, wolfram, peat (used for electricity ...
During two DRC civil wars in the 1990s, the military forces of Uganda and Rwanda entered eastern Congo and took over existing illegal mines to sluice profits back into their home countries. At other times, the profiteers have been commanders in Congo's own army, such as Bosco Ntaganda, later convicted of war crimes by the International ...
The illegal exploitation of mineral resources is one of the main sources of subsistence in the locality of Chimoia province of Manica in Mozambique. Children are initiated at Garimpo at a young ...
The presence of non-state armed groups in gold mining areas, who seek to finance their activities with the illicit proceeds from this natural resource, is likely to be controlled by some OCGs, as instability facilitates illegal mining operations and lowers buying prices.
This story map captures the breath taking story of illegal gold mining activities in Ghana. It illustrates the effects of unregulated surface and alluvial mining activities have affected major river bodies and how …
Last week, a gang of robbers armed with traditional weapons raided a cassiterite mine, leaving two miners injured at the Rusave mining company in the Rwinkwavu sector, Kayonza...
Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."
FBI Initiative to Combat Illicit Mining. In October 2015, the FBI established the Illegal Mining Initiative to disrupt TCO involvement in this illicit trade and to prosecute complicit companies ...
A mining site where illegal mining activities was conducted. According to a new bill in Parliament, landowners who allow people without licenses to carry out mining activities on their land risk punishment.
Mining and the illicit trade in minerals have long been the source of social and environmental upheaval in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and coltan, a mineral essential to modern electronics, has become a particular focus of criminal networks. This study reveals a network of organised crime involved in the production and supply …
Traders in Rwanda profiting from tin, tungsten and tantalum smuggled across the border from mines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are helping fund a rebellion in their resource-rich ...
