Sentences with phrase «scale mining areas»

Local hunting camps were common and a network of motorcycle trails is used for commercial bushmeat transport as well as accessing small scale mining areas.

Not exact matches

The zinc target tested in these short drill holes is one of two or more zinc zones in the area near some historic small scale mining on the Mountain View mine property that occurred nearly 50 years ago.

The Eastern Region town of Akwatia is among the areas where small - scale legal and illegal mining activities are very high.

He was however quick to add that, government had identified prospective areas for small scale mining, where «we will then direct the small scale miners to those particular areas so that they are not just mining haphazardly.»

ter Steege: «Thus, if we can protect these areas from threats they face, such as fires, degradation, deforestation, large - scale damage, and mining, the Amazon could be a showcase of large - scale conservation worldwide.»

Yellowknife is already a major staging area for projects further north thanks to large - scale diamond mining at Ekati and Diavik in the Northwest Territories.

A leap in the area being felled for small - scale gold mining has bought with it increased emissions of mercury, toxic both to impoverished miners and to the wider environment.

Leningrad's governor is inviting miners to the Sosnovy Bor area near St. Petersburg to create industrial - scale mining farms at the old Leningrad nuclear power plant.

For example, the Commission is concerned that while proposed declarations in the Archer Basin may disadvantage Indigenous communities by effectively prohibiting various opportunities to develop land in the proposed preservation areas such as agriculture, and surface mining, it may allow for damaging, large - scale mining activities to continue.