Mining Sector Challenges: CSR and Community Expectations
Investors navigating significant challenges in the mining industry due to rising demands for CSR initiatives from local communities. The balance between business operations, profit, and social welfare is proving difficult to strike. ... Investors in the mining sector are confronting significant challenges as they grapple with the rising demands ...
Challenges and opportunities of environmental policy implementation
Throughout the fieldwork, we observed that many people in mining communities particularly the youth, have become frustrated, and have accepted it to be the norm when mining companies degrade or pollute the environment. ... the challenges confronting the implementation of environmental policies in the gold mining sector …
5 Challenges Confronting Mining Operations
Challenge 3: Technology & Innovation - Embracing the Digital Future. Advancements in AI, data science, automation, and blockchain offer immense potential for the mining industries, improving efficiency, optimizing operations, and enhancing decision-making. However, successful integration and user adoption remain crucial challenges.
Mining and community development: problems …
Mining and community development 201 cases in-migration and resettlement. For some communities, particularly with no history of mining, taking advantage of the benefits …
Effective environmental governance and outcomes for gold mining …
Balancing effective environmental governance with the extraction of mineral resources is a major challenge confronting governments, mining companies and local communities. Mining activities bring variety of actors whose interest may stand opposed. Environmental governance mediates not only between the opposing interests but also …
Challenges Confronting Coal Mining Operations in …
Key Insights. Rate of decline of employment: 35% in 12 years (2018 - 2030) 92% in 32 years (2018 – 2050) 2018-2030: • Average of 638 workers exiting. employment per year. NB: Job losses projections extrapolated from amount of employees per mine at time of SLP publication and estimated year of closure per mine.
Land Use Challenges in Mining Communities
PDF | On May 1, 2019, Theresa Y. Baah-Ennumh and others published Land Use Challenges in Mining Communities – The Case of Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality | Find, read and cite all the research you ...
(PDF) Key Challenges Facing The Mining And …
1 The MMSD project was sponsored by 31 mining companies and mining. service companies, two mining schools, two government departments, UNEP, the World Bank and the ICEM. KEY …
Creating a gender-inclusive mining industry: Uncovering the challenges
We present empirical data of challenges confronting women in mining. • 53% and 37% of women in mining face discrimination and sexual harassment, respectively. • Discrimination and harassment are dominantly perpetrated by superiors. • We present a novel four-way mind map model for a gender inclusive mining industry.
RISKS, THREATS AND CHALLENGES IN THE
2. Challenges in the mining sector 3. Illegal/Informal Mining 4. Unrest in mining communities 5. Rehabilitation of Old Mining Sites 6. Challenges in the petroleum sector 7. Fuel and Gas Pipelines 8. Rail infrastructure 9. Implementation of the renewable energy programme 10. Energy Transition Readiness 11. Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) 12. …
Principal Challenges Confronting Smallholder Agriculture in …
The sample was stratified by province (10 provinces) and agro-ecological zones. Eighty of the country's 128 districts were included in the sample. A total of 4,908 small- and medium-sized farms were interviewed in 559 communities. The sample is nationally representative of rural farm s to the provincial level. (d). Rwanda
Challenges confronting teachers of English language learners
Abstract. The number of English language learners and limited English proficient students has grown exponentially in the United States over the past decades. Given the huge cultural and linguistic diversity among them, educating this population of students remains a challenge for teachers. This paper aims to review the types of challenges that ...
Livelihoods and environmental challenges in coastal communities …
Abstract. Several socio-economic activities such as construction, farming, gas flaring, oil exploration and transportation have affected the physical environment in Nigeria. These activities ...
Mineral exploration and the green transition: Opportunities …
1. Introduction. Finding alternative sources of essential minerals required for the development and implementation of green technology has gained prominence in the wake of the worldwide drive for sustainable development and the transition towards a low-carbon economy(Yin et al., 2023).The mining sector now faces both new possibilities …
The challenges that Indigenous communities are still facing …
News. The challenges that Indigenous communities are still facing today. Dirty drinking water, missing and murdered Indigenous women and cases, and expired vaccine doses are issues where complete solutions and inquiry seem to be always delayed by Canadian government. Lydia Clarke Rehman October 18, 2021.
Ending Exploitation in the DRC's Deadly Cobalt Mines
June 6, 2023. Whether you know it or not, much of your life is powered by Congolese cobalt—and by the people who mine it. There's a little piece of cobalt in nearly every smartphone, tablet, and laptop. That makes cobalt indispensable to global tech and manufacturing companies. But cobalt extraction is a major driver of human rights abuses.
Sustainable mining in North America: Confronting 3 major …
This contamination negatively impacts biodiversity and poses possible health risks to nearby communities. An often-overlooked challenge linked to increased moisture is precipitation-induced fog and potential for icing and freezing on roads in operations across the northern U.S. and Canada. ... Confronting mining's risks with electric skies ...
Civil Society Group expresses worry over challenges facing mining …
This annual conference drew people from different mining communities in West Africa to deliberate and find solutions to the common challenges that are confronting mining activities in the region. ... "The challenges faced by these mining host communities need urgent resolutions. There is a need for collaboration with security …
(PDF) The Mining Industry in Zimbabwe: Challenges for …
The above scenario sets a clear justification for convening Alternative Mining Indabas as open platforms for mining affected communities to discuss the impacts of mining on their livelihoods, rights and environment with the government and the mining companies. ... Other challenges confronting the mining industry include political uncertainty ...
Mining and Excavation, Health and the Environment
Mining and Excavation – Challenges and Prospects for Liberia's Health System. "The Bomi Hills Centu ry Chal lenge – Challenges and Prospects of the Health System due. to Iron Ore Mining in ...
Conflicts between mining companies and …
Mining activities often lead to environmental problems, such as destroying wildlife habitats and contaminating water and land resources, as well as various socioeconomic …
Wildlife Conservation and Management: Challenges and …
ABSTRACT. This article delves into the critical issues and strategies related to wildlife conservation and. management in the context of the contemporary environmental crisis. It highlights th e ...
Improving awareness of mercury pollution in small-scale gold mining
The aim was to improve understanding of the challenges faced by artisanal and small-scale mining communities, and to devise policy initiatives to increase the security and well being of these people. The Centre for Development Studies at the University of Swansea was awarded the first phase of the project but encountered …
Understanding the impacts of mining on local …
By working with communities in mining areas, Odell and Fernández are gaining a sense of the burden that mining minerals needed for the clean energy transition is placing on local populations, and the types of conflicts that arise when water sources …
The Road Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for AI and …
Opportunities for AI and Machine Learning. Challenges often serve as catalysts for growth and innovation, and in the case of AI and machine learning in mining, this rings particularly true. These obstacles, while complex, provide an abundance of opportunities for advancements and improvements in the field.
Needs of communities near mines in poor countries …
A joint draft report by the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network …
Confronting corruption in Uganda's mining industry
In June, natural resources watchdog Global Witness published a report entitled 'Undermined', the culmination of an 18-month investigation into corruption in the Ugandan mining industry. The report presents evidence of a mineral licensing system that is left open to abuse by an almost total lack of transparency, a problem Global Witness's ...
Indigenous peoples' relationships to large-scale mining in …
1. Introduction. Large-scale mining projects inevitably have widespread impacts on local societies and ecologies. Because of their close relationships to the land, water, and resources therein, and their marginalized social and economic positions, Indigenous peoples living in current or former settler colonies are particularly vulnerable …
Challenges confronting libraries in documentation and …
It is the basis for local level decision making in agriculture, health care, food preparation, education, music, arts, crafts, natural resource management and a host of other activities in communities (Mabawonku, 2005). Indigenous knowledge provides a basis for problem-solving strategies for communities.
(PDF) REVIEW OF CHALLENGES CONFRONTING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND
This article focuses on assessing the environmental impacts of mining in mining edge communities in Sierra Leone. A survey of 360 people from three mining edge communities (Sierra Rutile Limited (SRL), Bonthe district; Octea Mining Company (OMC), Kono district and Sierra Leone Mining Company (SLM), Port Loko district) was conducted.