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Nigeria's Mining regulatory framework: To further attract investment, generate revenues and develop the local mining industry, the Federal Government of Nigeria has begun legal, regulatory, institutional, and fiscal reforms for the mining sector. Key initiatives in this regard include the establishment and recent automation of a cadastral
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— A safer and environmentally low-impact mining is not only a matter of interest to uranium producers, but it is also one of concern to the users of nuclear energy to establish it as the clean source of energy (Ming et al. 2016; Guo and Ren 2017).This chapter aims to be an outline of the leading mining practices and regulatory environment …
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— Mining and smelting are important economic activities. However, mining-related industries are also some of the largest sources of environmental pollution from heavy metals. China is one of the largest producers and consumers of lead and zinc in the world. A large amount of lead, zinc, and related elements, such as cadmium, have been …
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— Part 1: Health, Environmental, and Gender Impacts of ASGM Activities Since the 2010 lead poisoning outbreak in Zamfara, much attention has been given to the collateral health and environmental impacts that arise from ASGM. While the Zamfara outbreak shifted much of the focus of the impacts of ASGM to lead, mercury poisoning is …
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— A village was set up to support 15,000 miners working in the ruby mine near Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar. Photo: Pardieu et al. (2017). However, compared to many other industries such as agriculture, mining uses relatively small pockets of land, and the future of mining could move to using techniques that are arguably even less invasive on …
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— Background Artisanal mining of cassiterite is one tedious activity that is done daily. It involves daily extraction of economic mineral deposits through the use of primitive tools like shovel, digger, and spade. The continuous extractive act by these artisanal miners tends not to bother the Government of Nigeria and as such, there is no detailed record …
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— Background Mining can directly and indirectly affect social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative ways, and may result in societal benefits, but may also cause conflicts, not least in relation to land use. Mining always affects the environment, whilst remediation and mitigation efforts may effectively ameliorate some …
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— 4. Environmental Impact Assessment: GIS can be utilized to assess the potential environmental impacts of mining operations and other extractive industries (Werner et al., 2019). By integrating ...
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However, given the extensive environmental degradation caused by coal mining, including the contamination of air, water, and soil as well as the global drive towards cleaner energy, the FG has been advised to desist from issuing coal mining licenses to interested players. This was coming on the sidelines of the 2022 United Nations
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Environmental Impacts of Mining and oil extraction Oil extraction in the Niger Delta has had a significant impact on the environment. Oil spills have destroyed aquatic ecosystems, and burning gases associated with oil extraction have caused considerable air pollution, releasing greenhouse gases and causing respiratory problems for local people.
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— Yet details about mining's environmental impact continue to go underrepresented — or unnoticed — even as the sector grows. Mineral extraction has doubled since the turn of the century ...
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Steel production uses over 98% of the iron ore available on the global market. Iron ore is a significant material that is used to extract metallic iron. Due to the increasing demand for metals, mining, and processing must be done continuously, producing a lot of liquid and solid waste. Massive amounts of tailings containing dangerous elements, including Fe, …
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— Efforts have also been made to assess the environmental or radioecological impacts of solid mineral mining globally. For instance, Déjeant et al. measured the radioactivity levels in Cominak and Somaïr uranium mines in Niger Republic, which shares a border with Nigeria.Other studies that considered the impacts of uranium mining are …
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— Social struggles and human rights issues. The surge in lithium demand fuels social conflicts, echoing the grim historical pattern of Green Imperialism as detailed by Richard Grove, in which indigenous peoples are displaced from their ancestral lands and communities in the name of resource extraction, which according to GlobalData's 2023 …
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