Sentences with phrase «scale mining as»

«So we have identified illegal small - scale mining as the target for the fight against galamsey.

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THE slowdown in the mining sector may have prompted many businesses to scale back their operations, but Esperance company Davies Wear Plate systems has all guns blazing as it embarks on an ambitious

If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state mining operations and stake in Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global scale.

A third of Mirabela Nickel's workforce at the Santa Rita mine and 180 contractors have been made redundant, as the troubled miner begins scaling back production at its nickel project in Brazil.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

A number of issues were discussed including the impact of the proposed amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessment Board Act, which is currently before Parliament and which will among other things, remove set timelines for assessments as well as requiring re-assessments for large scale mining projects, where a full environmental screening has already been positively concluded.

As noted above, increasing difficulty has boxed miners out of their own paychecks and made mining a hobby of major industrial - scale operations.

In 2019, they are planning to create a large - scale mining centre which will add to their revenue, as well as ensuring that there are top quality speeds available for those who use the Nauticus services.

Considering everything involved, people no longer see bitcoin mining as a profitable venture, unless you intend to do it on a large scale, are based on a country where electricity cost is low, or have a huge budget to purchase and set up the hardware.

He went out in later years to change the conditions in mine and factory for the laborer, and he succeeded so well that Matthew Arnold said the average Englishman thought of God as Lord Shaftesbury on a larger scale.

Government has adopted a strong stance against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, and has taken a decision to place a ban all of forms on small scale mining in the country.

Today, whilst the government is busy chasing Ghanaian youth out of small scale mining for Chinese and other nationals to take over, we wish to remind the Ghanaian people that China as a country has over 102 types of mineral deposits in over 3000 mine beds with an estimated value of about $ 100 billion.

Aside these, small scale miners have provided social amenities such as toilets, boreholes, CHPS compounds among others for several mining communities, which eases the pressure on the government.

The cry for help has been thunderous especially as some water bodies residents depended on have all been polluted by galamsey operators — small scale mining works who have muddied the waterbodies.

The Ghanaian media especially Citi FM in April 2017 began an advocacy against small scale illegal mining popularly known as «galamsey» in the country following reports that Ghana might soon import water if the threat was not addressed.

The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, has asked members of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners to exercise restraint as the government works to fully implement measures to ensure responsible mining in the country.

«We are ready to die than to live and not work» Frank Osei, said Thursday, and condemned and described as harsh, the destruction of some excavators belonging to some of their members who are operating with licence, The miners have blamed the media for fuelling the fight against small scale mining in the country.

It has emerged that persons who indulge in small scale illegal mining also known as galamsey, do not only operate during the day, but also at night.

The Chief Executive of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubynn, has said that illegal small - scale mining, popularly known as «galamsey» has stopped in the country following the intense media campaign and government action against the practice.

He said the country is currently entering a new era of putting efforts in place to formalize the small - scale mining sector «so as to achieve sustainable mining with sound environmental practices.»

The government through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources as part of activities to stop the menace, has temporarily placed a ban on the issuance of licenses for small - scale mining, and directed all illegal miners to cease the practice and evacuate from the various sites.

«As for the small scale licences that are existing already, well a pronouncement will be made, because most of them are not going to be recognized,» Mr Amewu told journalists after visiting the C and G Aleska mining company in the Ahanta East District.

He noted that «This is in preparation for our deforestation program in terms of degradation which is as a result of illegal small scale mining.

The taskforce also attracted some criticism, with some describing as extreme its burning of mining equipment believed to belong to small - scale miners.

The question bordered on his resolve in fighting illegal small - scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, at the expense of his presidency.

But there are problems here as well: The scale of the mining and transportation effort to harvest these minerals would be enormous and extremely expensive.

Industrial processes such as small - scale gold mining and coal burning emit mercury into the atmosphere.

Now companies such as US - based Demand Media are trying to subvert search engines» algorithms on an industrial scale — in Demand Media's case, by mining the most popular keywords and links daily, then inserting them into thousands of brief, ad - laced «how - to» videos and articles it has churned out to capitalise on these trends.

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.

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.»

«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and ranking — or nearly as much as coal burning by power plants.

The rover craned back to take in the view as it scaled the southern edge of the Marathon Valley in search of fresh minerals to mine.

Dr. Li's research interests focus on machine learning, bioinformatics, and statistical data mining in large scale data in biomedical research, such as next generation sequencing data (whole genome sequencing, RNA - seq, microarray data), in the file.

And, «Developing nuclear - powered space shuttles will «support large - scale exploration and development of space resources, and make mining on asteroids and space solar power plants possible,» Xinhua quoted the report as saying, without adding further details.»

The size and scale of the convention reflects just how important it has become as a place for the mining industry to converge and for deals to get done.

Since bitcoin mining was started on industrial scale somewhat recently, the cost to mine has skyrocketed comparatively recently as well and this has been reflected in the actual bitcoin exchange rate.

Competitors in the market lack CMP's economies of scale (their mines can't produce as much salt and have higher costs) and waterway network advantages.

Heck, even though they recently revised the roadmap again as they look ahead to 3.2, they appear to have scaled down Chris's description of how mining would work.

Informed by her «Rear Screen Projection» series from the early 1980s (the artist's first foray into color photography), these gigantic self - portraits bring to mind the scale of Hollywood as well as the artistic movements that have continually mined its grandiose clichés.

So the black gold from the mines is at the centre of this exhibition of large - scale installations and sculptures: The deep black of coal, its shimmering surface and tactile qualities were used as aesthetic resources by artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, David Hammons, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Bernar Venet or the ZERO group.

This fully illustrated catalogue accompanying Charlesworth's first major survey in New York features series such as Stills (1980), a group of 14 large - scale works rephotographed from press images that depict people falling or jumping off buildings; Modern History (1977 - 79), which pioneered photographic appropriation; the alluring Objects of Desire (1983 - 88) and Renaissance Paintings (1991), which continued Charlesworth's trenchant approach to mining the language of photography; Doubleworld (1995), which probes the fetishism of vision in pre-modernist art and marks Charlesworth's transition to a more active role behind the camera; and her final series, Available Light (2012).

«But, as has been seen with large scale mining, logging and palm oil, there is the ongoing concern that it provides very little financial benefit for ordinary people as well as environmental destruction.»

But a growing number of mining companies and renewable energy developers are beginning to use these vast plains of disturbed dirt as the ideal spots for large - scale solar and wind power projects.

1) Nudge a 1 - mi diameter nickel - iron asteroid into near - Earth orbit, and it will (rather readily) yield as much precious metal as has been mined from the Earth's crust in all history, plus huge amounts of base metals (useful mostly for large - scale orbital construction, etc.) 2) Plasma torches from either self - generated Syngas or from prospective fusion plants will enable nearly complete recycling of all waste, including landfills and equipment graveyards, etc., by reducing it to pure elemental form.

But his administration has also vowed to scale back an EPA rule to limit ground - level ozone pollution, as well as an Interior Department rule to protect streams from coal - mining waste.

Fellow 2009 Prize recipient Yuyun Ismawati also works with IPEN as a steering committee member and leader for artisanal and small - scale gold mining (ASGM) and Mining imining (ASGM) and Mining iMining issues.

Examples are: Environmental gas displacement Confined spaces, combined withaccidental gas leaks, such as mines, submarines, refrigerators, or otherconfined spaces Fire extinguisher systems that flood spaces with inertgases, such as computer data centers and sealedvaults Large - scale natural release of gas, such as during the Lake Nyos disaster inwhich volcanically - released carbon dioxide killed 1,800 people.

However, perovskite cells all use lead as a key ingredient, and to scale up production of these efficient solar components, additional mining and smelting of lead would be required, which adds to the environmental footprint of their manufacture.

If you include other large - scale projects such as the proposed plans to mine for shale gas in various parts of the UK and Potash in North Yorkshire you can see how conveyancers all over the country need to fully get to grips with what developments might impact their regions.

Notable mandates: Acting for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regarding the development and financing of the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project, also known as the «Lower Churchill Project»; acting for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador concerning the development and operation of the Hebron offshore oilfield project and the Hibernia South oilfield expansion project; acting for developers and placing financing on new hotel developments in downtown St. John's; defending class action claims involving product liability and taxation issues at a certification hearing and a common issues trial and appeal; acting for mining corporations involved in large - scale mine development projects in Labrador