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Small-scale mining, rural subsistence and poverty in West Africa / edited by Gavin M. Hilson.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Rugby, Warwickshire : Practical Action Publishing, 2006.Description: xxi, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781853396359 (pbk.)
  • 9781853396298 (hard)
  • 1853396354 (pbk.)
  • 185339629X (hard)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 628.16832 SMA
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Part I: Artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa
1. An overview
2. Poverty and economic development in West Africa: a historical analysis
3. Poverty and artisanal mining in West Africa
4. Artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa: an overview of sustainable development and environmental issues
5. Mercury: an agent of poverty in West Africa's small-scale gold-mining industry
etc.

Part II: Country case studies: Francophone West Africa
8. Introduction
9. Artisanal and small-scale mining in Mali: an overview
10. Artisanal and small-scale gold mines in Burkina Faso: today and tomorrow
11. Artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso: permits, poverty and perceptions of the poor in Sanmatenga, the land of gold
12. Artisanal gold mining in northern Benin: a sociocultural perspective

Part III: Country case studies: Anglophone West Africa
13. Introduction
14. Diamonds, poverty and war in Sierra Leone
15. Reflections on the political economy of artisanal diamond mining in Kono district, Sierra Leone
16. Perspectives on diamond mining and public health in Akwatia, Ghana
17. Socioeconomic, environmental and policy implications of alluvial diamond mining in the Birim diamondiferous field, eastern Ghana
etc.

Includes bibliographical references : p. 295-311 . _ Index : p. 313-323

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