Sustainable solution or a marriage of inconvenience? The coexistence of large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining on the Abosso Goldfields concession in Western Ghana
Sustainable solution or a marriage of inconvenience? The coexistence of large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining on the Abosso Goldfields concession in Western Ghana
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可持续的解决方案还是不便的联姻？
DOI：
10.1016/j.resourpol.2008.04.002
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发表时间：
2009
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影响因子：
10.2
通讯作者：
A. Aubynn
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作者：
A. Aubynn
本文探讨了定义个体和小规模采矿（ASM）和大规模采矿（LSM）部门运营商之间关系的关键问题，重点是自20世纪90年代初以来加纳的采矿地形。在加纳，这些采矿方之间的关系越来越脆弱，往往导致个体和小型金矿经营者与LSM和国家安全部队之间的暴力对抗。分析借鉴了该国主要大型经营者之一Abosso Goldfields Limited（AGL）为在其特许权上容纳个体和小型金矿经营者而采取的务实做法，并审查了这种做法的可持续性以及从中吸取的教训。
This article explores the key issues that have defined relations between operators in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and large-scale mining (LSM) sectors, with emphasis on the mining terrain of Ghana since the early-1990s. The relationship between these mining parties has become increasingly tenuous in Ghana, often culminating in violent confrontation between ASM operators, on the one hand, and LSM and state security forces, on the other hand. The analysis draws on a pragmatic approach which Abosso Goldfields Limited (AGL), one of the country's major large-scale operators, adopted to accommodate ASM operators on its concession, and examines the sustainability of the approach as well as the lessons to be learnt from it.