Sentences with phrase «scale mining by»

He said the moratorium placed on small scale mining by the government was good, saying since then, turbidity levels of water bodies had been declining drastically, and urged all to come on board to help stop «galamsey» in the country.

The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, is unhappy about government's decision to extend the ban on small - scale mining by three more months.

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PERTH - based diamond explorer Majestic Re-sources NL will make a decision by June 2000 whether to undertake full scale mining on two targets on the Pniel Estate diamond project.

The argument from Gavin and other who supported increasing the transaction capacity by this method are essentially there are economies of scale in mining and that these economies have far bigger centralisation pressures than increased resource cost for a larger number of transactions (up to the new limit proposed).

By: Henry Lazenby 29th September 2014 Africa - concerned project developer Ivanhoe Mines on Monday reported the positive initial results of bench - scale metallurgical flotation testwork at the company's Kamoa copper project, near the mining centre of Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern province of Katanga.

By: Erin Steenhoff - Snethlage 4th May 2018 Multidisciplinary engineering consultancy WSP Africa states that while acid mine drainage (AMD) decant in the Witwatersrand gold fields and surrounds should be dealt with urgently, there is no company large enough to start a large - scale water rehabilitation programme.

Ice Rock Mining wants to benefit their investors by offering them an efficient way of earning profits and makes them co-owners of this large - scale project and also easier to know how invest in ICOs.

Mining 12 mins ago By Kevin Helms — 1380 0 Japan's DMM Launches Large - Scale Domestic Cryptocurrency Mining Farm and...

«We laud her firm stand against the destruction of our natural resources, especially by large - scale mining operations.»

Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

It is our reckoning that the militarized approach adopted by His Excellency President Akufo Addo towards small scale mining leaves much to be desired of, considering the fact that small scale miners are hardworking citizens of Ghana whose contribution to the national economy can not be underestimated.

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.

Dr Fayemi, in the meeting attended by all cadre of the workers in the ministry, said the huge scale of illegal mining by the two companies in Wase was tantamount to economic terrorism, adding that government was determined to confront anyone or group that are out to sabotage the economy through illegal mining and other means.

President Akufo - Addo acknowledged that, Ghana has long been a country of mineral deposits and the exploitation of minerals, hence, there was no vendetta against small - scale miners, some of who are aggrieved by the upsurge in attempts to protect the environment from the ills of mining.

The government has since taken a number of actions including suspending the issuance of new licences for the small - scale mining in the country, and it has announced the retrieval of some illegal mining equipment, surrendered by the operators following the massive drive to clamp down on their activities.

According to them, it appears they have been targeted by the ban which does not apply to large - scale miners despite the fact that both small and large - scale mining is regulated by the same law.

For instance, the total gold production by small scale miners rose from an estimated 2.2 % in 1989 to 31 % of the national production in 2016 whilst production of all diamonds is now coming from small scale mining.

«We are sure you will agree that the accelerated environmental damage is caused by the industrial scale of illegal mining with heavy duty machinery.

Government has announced an extension of the ban on all forms of small scale mining in the country by three...

Godwin Amarh was speaking on the sidelines of a media round - table discussion on the place and role of Artisanal and Small - Scale Mining in Ghana's economy, organised by the Third World Network Africa.

It follows demands by a civil society group, Artisanal and Small scale Mining - Africa Network for transparency in the assessment of the first phase of the operations of the...

Similar emissions are caused by the iron, aluminum, and copper mines needed to produce material for renewable systems, Hertwich noted, but the massive scale of coal mining makes its emissions much more significant by comparison.

By mining designs at scale, semantic relationships can be found between seemingly unrelated apps and learned from, Kumar says.

«To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to measure the second largest economy by mining such unprecedentedly large scale and fine granular spatial - temporal data,» the Baidu researchers write.

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.

In 13 years, small - scale mining operations increased by 600 % and the amount of land in the state affected by gold mining quadrupled, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

«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.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

Copy of technical paper by Research Director Paul Robinson on long - term groundwater contamination at two uranium mill tailings sites in New Mexico titled: GROUNDWATER RESTORATION LONG BEYOND CLOSURE AT THE HOMESTAKE - MILAN AND UNITED NUCLEAR - CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helling, et.

MONGOLIA «Water and Mining - Impact avoidance through mine design and planning, balancing operational needs with the environmental sensitivity» prepared for Conference on THE MITIGATION HIERARCHY: REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF LARGESCALE AND SMALL - SCALE MINING MAY 27 - 28, 2015 ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA by Paul Robinson, Research Director Southwest Research and Information Center

In Kayah, Karen, and Shan states, large scale hydropower and mining projects implemented by foreign corporations in cooperation with the Burmese army continue to displace local ethnic communities.

Medium scale mining is undertaken by Kilimanjaro Mining in Block A and Tanzanite Africa in Block D - extemining is undertaken by Kilimanjaro Mining in Block A and Tanzanite Africa in Block D - exteMining in Block A and Tanzanite Africa in Block D - extension.

The exhibition has previously traveled throughout Europe and South America: CaixaForum, Palma, Spain February 25 to May 31,2015 A Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal April 8 to August 2, 2015 Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany April 17 to August 18, 2015 Forti di Bard, Aosta, Italy May 9 to September 30, 2015 CaixaForum, Zaragosa, Spain June 18 to October 12, 2015 THE SALT OF THE EARTH Select theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles Co-directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, the Oscar - nominated documentary recounts Salgado's career, from images of the Boschian nightmare of Brazil's Serra Pelada gold mines to shots of the mid-1990s Rwandan genocide to Sebastião's most recent project, Genesis, which captures pristine, grandly scaled landscapes throughout the world.

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.

The starting point for this particular large - scale painting was to find a compelling moment within an earlier line - based painting of mine, something perhaps one inch by one inch or smaller, and magnify that portion into a large scale composition.

However, the blind drawings «Roraryboryellas (blind-fold drawing)» (undated), a territory also mined by Robert Morris, do not match the wit and vision displayed in many of his early works from the Dwan Gallery exhibitions, including Six Sites (1966 - 67), where he reproduced the walls of the gallery at 90 % scale using silkscreen photographs.

A feature of this is that much of the outputs of these minerals are by small - scale mining.

In 2002, the local government responded to strong public opposition by passing an island - wide moratorium that required Intex to stop any activities related to large - scale mining.

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.

Here are some stunning photos that show the scale of the mine and the damage caused by the landslide.

But the potentially calamitous impact of clearance for mining, logging and ranching, combined with the longer - term impact of human - induced climate change, driven by fossil fuel combustion on a global scale, had to be identified by complex computer simulations.

The scale of the project alone is impressive: it has an expected total capital cost of $ 14.8 bn (# 12bn) and the International Monetary Fund estimates that the mine will generate a third of Mongolia's GDP by the time it reaches full production.

A recent mining conference hosted by Bitmain highlighted hot topics such as scaling bitcoin and the bitcoin block size.

China's Bitcoin Miners See Profit in a Bigger - Block Blockchain A recent mining conference hosted by Bitmain highlighted hot topics such as scaling bitcoin and the bitcoin block size.

In recent weeks, China's ViaBTC became one of the first providers of mining software to switch its client from the official version provided by Bitcoin Core to an option provided by Bitcoin Unlimited, a rival development group that supports alternative methods of scaling that is focused on creating a more variable bitcoin block size.

Genesis decided to scale ether mining after the spectacular growth of the cryptocurrency that began under 1 USD (0.005 BTC) and stabilised at approximately 10 USD (0.02 BTC) leaving other altcoins far behind and becoming second only to bitcoin by the market cap.

But where Bcash and SegWit2X are scaling - related forks — both mainly increase Bitcoin's block size limit — Bgold wants to re-decentralize mining by implementing a new proof - of - work algorithm.

Where Bcash attempted to offer an on - chain scaling solution by increasing Bitcoin's block size limit (while removing the Segregated Witness code), Bgold is an attempt to counter Bitcoin's mining centralization.

Walsh also said that a strong foundation for both organic growth and growth through acquisition could be created by combining Hyperblock's large - scale mining - as - as - a-service model with CryptoGlobal's current mining, custodial storage, and digital currency trading business.