The pace of mineral extraction has greatly accelerated since the mid-1950s, with a major
mineral boom taking place in the past decade. Responding to growing demands for more …

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and large-scale mining in the Ecuadorian
Amazon region is potentially harmful to nature, and its impacts are associated with …

Illegal gold mining activities have contributed to the release and mobilization of Hg and
environmental degradation in many parts of the world. This study aims to determine the …

A global boom since the early 2000s has spurred major mining projects as well as major
social conflicts, with South America standing as a central example on both fronts. Artisanal …

Background Artisanal and small-scale gold mining activities are producing contamination
with heavy metals and metalloids (HMM) into soils and water worldwide. The HMM are …

La minería metálica a gran escala en Ecuador no tiene precedentes, sin embargo
actualmente es una actividad económica por la que el gobierno nacional ha apostado …

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been performed in the southern
Ecuadorian Amazon since the colonial period. However, its effects on fluvial systems have …

Conflicts around large-scale mining are common and widely researched, but artisanal and
small-scale mining (ASM) features sparingly in the mining conflict literature, despite the …

Before Christmas 2016, an elementary school in Zaruma, Ecuador was swallowed by a
collapse in the ground linked to illegal gold mining activity taking place underneath the town …

This article aims to draw attention to the role of the future in artisanal mining. It argues that in
order to understand the dynamics of artisanal mining, research must understand miners' …