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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Gold miners"”.
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Silicosis pulmonary dysfunction and respiratory symptoms in South African gold miners
… the influence of silicosis and the occupation of gold mining on respiratory symptoms, lung function and tuberculosis in a working population of black, migrant, South African gold miners. No previous study has examined a working population of these men.
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Variation in silicosis prevalence in South African gold miners : an industry-wide study
… the prevalence of silicosis in the South African gold mining industry. Gold mining is an important industry in South Africa, yet has been blighted by silicosis and tuberculosis in miners since its inception in 1887. There have been two previous studies conducted in black in-service miners using …
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Mining God’s way: towards mineral resource justice with artisanal gold miners in East Africa
The daily livelihood practices of artisanal gold miners have social, economic, environmental, and governance impacts. Three situations were observed in East Africa, where interventions towards improving livelihoods or mitigating these impacts, have resulted in impasses. These impasses are engaged …
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Illuminating a neglected population: epidemiological and clinical features of silicosis and tuberculosis among former gold miners from Lesotho
… large South African mining industry, especially gold mining, is known as the amplifier of this triple epidemic of silicosis, TB and HIV. Furthermore, ex-mineworkers from South African mines have a higher mortality rate than active mineworkers and the general population. They carry a heavy burden …
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Mining for the Future: Dynamics of Artisanal Gold Mining Practice and Governance in the Balan-Bakama (Mande, Mali)
… examines the social organization of artisanal gold mining in the Balan-Bakama, a zone of the Mande area of southern Mali (West-Africa). Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in 2010-11 I show how villagers and specifically their male and female mining authorities govern mining sites in the …
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‘Pilgrim through this barren land’ Maintaining Welsh Connections and Culture in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
… or religious oppression. Instead, explorers, gold-miners and entrepreneurs paved the way for economic migrants who continue to seek better opportunities in Vancouver where the diaspora, represented by the Vancouver Welsh Society, gathers in their Cambrian Hall. Besides celebrating Welsh …
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On the Regulation of Small Actors: Three Experimental Essays about Policies based on Voluntary Compliance and Decentralized Monitoring
… that I conducted with small-scale gold miners in the Colombian Pacific and with users and providers of ecosystem services in the states of Veracruz, Quintana Roo and Yucatan in Mexico. This dissertation is organized in three essays. </p><p>The first essay, “Collective Incentives for …
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An Analysis of the Suruí Forest Carbon Project in Context of Settler Colonialism
… in 2015 and 2016, following the discovery of gold and diamonds on the Suruí's territory, the project's sight was eventually overrun by garimpeiros (small-scale gold miners), and in 2018 the project was suspended, leading some to consider it a failure. Therefore, I will present some of the …
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Technological, social and economic aspects of gold production and use by the iron age people of Southern Africa
… technological, social and economIC aspects of gold production and use in the Late Iron Age of southern Africa. The topic is approached in two ways. The first is to define the fabrication technology employed in producing gold artefacts. The second is to use trace element fingerprinting to try to …
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Hut lung : a study of domestically acquired pneumoconiosis in rural women
… to those found in an average South African gold mine while calculated equivalent respirable quartz concentrations were well below those found in the worst exposed gold miners and well within the recommended threshold limit values of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health …
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Mines and Miners of the Swauk
… as an investigation into the history of the gold field lying in the mountains of northern Kittitas county and known as the Swauk.