That is Coltan extraction, gold mining.

(a) Whether garimpeiro gold mining can be environmentally acceptable

III. REPLICABLE SMALL SCALE MECHANIZED MINING OPERATIONS

The NPA de mining operations are carried out in close cooperation with United Nations de mining operations or as an integrated part of such operations.

History Following the 1905 gold rush, Mbeya was founded as a gold mining town in the 1920s.

A. Alluvial gold mining in the Amazon, Brazil . 7 13 6

Gold mining. We thought we'd mosey around Virginia City for a spell.

Assisting the artisanal and small scale gold mining sector to minimize the discharge of highly poisonous mercury used in gold extraction

III. REPLICABLE SMALL SCALE MECHANIZED MINING OPERATIONS .... 49 61 18

Women have long been engaged in traditional gold panning and small scale diamond mining.

To reduce mercury pollution of international waters by emissions emanating from small scale gold mining

A. Precious metals a small scale gold mining operation in Burkina Faso . 50 53 18

UNDP Trust Fund for Capacity Building in De mining Operations for Cambodia

Vanderbilt was a short lived gold mining town located in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

New gold extraction technologies and creative marketing have helped reduce production costs in industrialized mining countries.

Rural populations that are engaged in informal gold mining (an unquantified but important number of those so engaged are women) do not benefit from their mining.

The Kyrgyz Republic became the first country to report under EITI, for a large gold mining project.

It will continue as long as no economic alternatives to this gold rush type mining are created.

There is substantial mining of non ferrous metals (copper, zinc, lead and gold) and of iron ore.

Inexplicably, none of the publicly available reports that cover the period from 1997 to 2004 show gold imports into Uganda, or gold mining activities in Uganda.

They also expressed deep concern about the large scale mining operations in Bougainville.

The airport was originally constructed by Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited in the 1950s to support the growing mining operations around Uranium City.

Banpu Group, a coal and electricity company, has mining operations in Indonesia and China.

Some of the mining operations identified by the Panel were fairly ambitious and included

2. The Enterprise shall conduct its initial deep seabed mining operations through joint ventures.

It also recently signed new mining concessions for bauxite, in addition to existing concessions for diamonds, titanium, and gold.

Mercury from gold mining and coal plants can be found in fish, and arsenic has been found in rice.

The deposit was discovered 1850 and was the site of the worst gold mining disaster in the state's history.

As for mining production, the Central African extraction industries used to rely on two main products diamonds and gold.

And after that, only big companies who used more sophisticated mining technologies started to take gold out of there.

37. Environmentally acceptable mining operations are dependent upon balanced environmental legislation and sound environmental practices.

Small scale mining should benefit from the technological gains achieved by the larger scale operations.

It will aid in the planning, management and more efficient implementation of de mining operations.

UNDP Trust Fund for Capacity Building in De mining Operations for Cambodia . 129 Statement XXVI.

Employment in gold mining alone declined from 535,000 in 1987 to 395,000 in 1993 (Financial Mail (Johannesburg), 11 June 1993).

One environmental problem associated with informal mining stems from the use and release of mercury, used for gold recovery by amalgamation.

De mining operations so far as we know, will no longer function as of 1 November 1993.

33. It is recognized that environmental degradation is most often the result of small scale mining operations.

In those cases, methods of providing sufficient financial assistance to conduct de mining operations must be explored.

The Black communities living in the Pacific region have priority rights with respect to mining operations there

in Burkina Faso 50. The gold deposit of Essakane, in the province of Oudalan in north east Burkina Faso, was discovered in 1985 by artisanal miners engaged in mining gold by vanning and panning. It is one of a number of gold deposits.

Earlier this year, Placer Dome, a gold mining company based in Vancouver, Canada, agreed to finance an exploration programme for these deposits.

The Minerals Commission upgraded the extraction and marketing of national gold and diamond resources, attracted new investments valued at several million dollars from leading mining companies world wide and is now promoting small scale mining.

In countries that are endowed with mineral resources, mining will certainly continue as a source of growth, but care should be taken to avoid adverse environmental consequences of mining operations.

It is hoped that de mining activities in major areas of return will be given priority in the de mining plans of the United Nations Operations for Somalia (UNOSOM II).