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Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold ...


Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold ...

Toxicological hazards were reported in 91 articles, including mercury, lead, and arsenic. Infectious hazards, noted in 18 articles, included malaria, cholera, ...

Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold ...

The communities near these mines are also affected due to mercury contamination of water and soil and subsequent accumulation in food staples such as fish. The ...

Prenatal Exposure to Lead Linked to Lower Birth Weights, Earlier ...

A new study on the impacts of prenatal exposure to toxic metals linked to artisanal gold mining and other sources in Madre de Dios, Peru, ...

Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold ...

Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold mining: A systematic review · SAGE Open Medicine, February 2022 · 10.1177/20503121221076934.

Linking geology and health sciences to assess childhood lead ...

Background: In 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières discovered a lead poisoning outbreak linked to artisanal gold processing in northwestern Nigeria.

Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining ...

Accidents in ASM are the main hazards for miners' health. Miners lack safety equipment and training. Many mines are extremely unsafe workplaces ...

Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold ...

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Type of study: Etiology_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies / Systematic_reviews ...

Artisanal Gold Mining: A Dangerous Pollution Problem - Pure Earth

Artisanal gold mining poses a significant health risk that can be easily and cost effectively remedied to protect the health of the miners and the global ...

Review Environmental contamination and health risk assessment of ...

As and Hg contribute to a greater non-carcinogenic risk to both children and adults in the vicinity of the gold mine, and the carcinogenic risks ...

Infectious hazards affecting children in artisanal and small-scale gold...

from publication: Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold mining: A systematic review | There are an estimated 5 million children ...

Artisanal gold mining in the eastern Amazon: Environmental and ...

The geoaccumulation index and the contamination factor showed that the colluvial mining tailings are moderately contaminated, and the tailings from underground ...

Protecting Child and Adult Gold Miners Against Mercury

Mercury exposure also threatens the health of children who are not themselves working in artisanal mining. Many women who carry out amalgamation ...

Artisanal Gold Mining - :: WorstPolluted.org : Projects Reports

... environment, posing large health risks to the miners, their families and surrounding communities.1 In this context, gold mining operations are particularly ...

Artisanal and small-scale - World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. Environmental and occupational health hazards associated with artisanal and small-scale gold mining. 1.Mining. 2.

Review: Artisanal Gold Mining in Africa—Environmental Pollution ...

The key but neglected hazards to human health in ASGM are potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and physical hazards, most notably airborne dust, ...

How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of Nigeria - Yale E360

Chemical extraction of gold ore using mercury also poses serious health hazards. Child labor is common in these mines, and very young children ...

A Poisonous Mix: Child Labor, Mercury, and Artisanal Gold Mining in ...

This 108-page report reveals that children as young as six dig mining shafts, work underground, pull up heavy weights of ore, and carry, ...

Environmental, Health and Safety Intricacies of Artisanal Mining in ...

and health dangers it poses to the miners and the broader mining ... Artisanal gold mining: a new frontier in post-conflict Sierra Leone?

Artisanal Gold Mining - WorstPolluted.org

The mercury used in these mining activities can also be responsible for the contamination of water and soil, posing health risks for communities near and far, ...

Occupational, environmental, and toxicological health risks of ...

A single car battery, for example, can contain up to 20 kg of cobalt [6]. Significant expansion of mining activities for these metals is ...