• Gender Safeguards for the Kimberley Process

    the physically demanding nature of artisanal diamond mining means that women are excluded from tasks such as stripping (excavation of the soil using spades and shovels) as they are perceived to be physically incapable of undertaking such women are hired to move gravel, they are paid an average of 20,000 leones (approximately usd) .

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  • From Poverty and War to Prosperity and Peace? Sustainable .

    5. The Kono Artisanal Diamond Industry 49 Geology, Geography and History – A Short Background to Today's Diamond Industry in Kono 49 The Artisanal Supply Chain: The Production and Marketing of Rough Diamonds 54 Productivity 57 Mining Procedure and Associated Tools and Technologies 57

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  • Delve | Effets des exploitations artisanales de diamants sur les.

    Cette étude a pour objectif de mettre en lumière les effets des exploitations artisanales de diamants sur les conditions de vie des populations riveraines de trois principales localités : les villes de Boda, Nola et Berberati dans le sudouest de la RCA. Elle s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un ensemble de réflexions visant à éclairer la situation d'un secteur – le secteur minier ...

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  • Small Medium Scale Mining Expert, Equipment Manufacturer

    Dry Tailings Process Helps Tailings Resource Utilization Tailings are "wastes" discharged by mining enterprises under certain technical and economic conditions. The development and utilization of a large number of tailings accumulated over a long period of time can effectively alleviate the pressure on resources and the environment.

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  • World Diamond Council advoes for Africa's artisanal diamond .

     · "The WDC strongly advoes that the CAR and other countries where artisanal diamond mining is prominent enjoy similar benefits from their production as do other African countries that have seen their economies and nations transformed by the proceeds from diamond sales," Kaninda said.

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  • Artisanal Small Scale Gold Mining | World Gold Council

    A artisanal miner wearing full protective personal equipment further to the human rightsled formalisation interventions of the Sustainable Artisanal Mining project of Swiss Development and Cooperation and Government of Mongolia. Photo taken during Levin Sourcesled expedition to train a gold refiner in responsible ASM, 2016.

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  • PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ARTISANAL DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT .

    PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ARTISANAL DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT II: FINAL REPORT () v IQC Indefinite Quantity Contract IT Information Technology KAP Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices KP Kimberley Process KPCS Kimberley Process Certifiion Scheme KPPS Kimberley Process Permanent Secretariat LSM LargeScale Mining

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  • Maendeleo Diamond Standards TM Overview

    The formalization of the artisanal diamond mining process through clear and transparent Standards, a reliable certifiion process and integrating artisanally mined diamonds into existing responsible supply chains can open up new markets for artisanal and smallscale miners, thereby increasing their earning power. The certifiion process is specifically .

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  • From carats to karats: explaining the shift from diamond to gold mining .

     · Sierra Leone and Angola, Kimberley Process participants that have both artisanal and largescale diamond mining, may witness a similar shift to either gold mining or a combination of gold and diamond mining by artisanal miners if their largescale diamond mining companies end operations. Koidu Holdings Limited, Sierra Leone's largest diamond .

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  • Formalization as a tool for environmental peacebuilding? Artisanal .

     · The artisanal and smallscale mining (ASM) of diamonds in Liberia and Sierra Leone has been a 'doubleedged sword' for both countries. 1 On the one hand, it has been a crucial source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of people. On the other hand, it has been connected to a plethora of socioeconomic and environmental harms.

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  • 'Zero Chance For Artisanal Diamond Mining' | 263Chat

     · "In terms of artisanal mining the Diamond Policy does not specify that, it doesn't mention artisanal mining, diamond mining is very different to gold mining where you have a lot of artisanal mining, in diamonds because of the Kimberly Process it's very difficult to control the sources of those diamonds.

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  • Artisanal diamond mining. Perspectives and challenges

     · Effective development of artisanal diamond mining communities must be based on a thorough understanding of the inherent complexities that characterise the sector. This research coordinated by the Egmont Institute and undertaken in support of the KPCS Working Group on Alluvial/Artisanal Producers (currently chaired by Angola), involved many of the leading .

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  • THE KIMBERLEY PROCESS,

    Artisanal diamond mining is an activity that requires a lot of physically demand ing work, depending on the amount of mechanization. Working conditions in the mines are poor as occupational safety and health care are very limited, and the income generated often verges on what is abstractly described as "extreme poverty".

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  • DRC: 3% of Artisanal Diamond Diggers Are Women

     · Artisanal Mining Findings In total, the DDI registered 108,169 artisanal workers who mine a variety of metals and minerals, among them gold and diamonds, but also tin, tantalum and tungsten. The overwhelming majority of these people – .

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  • Delve | Cartographie des défis économiques et sociaux liés à.

    En Côte d'Ivoire, il existe 2 zones diamantifères principales, à savoir Séguéla qui renferme environ 90% de la production et Tortiya pour environ 10% de la production1. Toute la production ivoirienne provient d'une exploitation artisanale et à petite échelle (EMAPE). On assiste ces dernières années.

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  • Mise en page 1

    the moscow declaration of 2005 made several recommen dations to the member countries of the kimberley process : ensure the traceability of production at the mine to point of export by the introduction of production records at the level of the artisans as well as sales records at the local level; regulate artisanal mining of diamonds in .

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  • Petra takes Kimberley 'learnings' to new artisanal mining deal .

     · The aim was to create a framework within which Artisanal Small Scale Mining can be ". conducted by community members in a legal and regulated manner". This included meeting the precepts of the Kimberley Process which authenties the provenance of diamonds. Work on the project at Koffiefontein had begun, the company said.

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  • A Review of Artisanal Diamond Mining in Africa

    In 2018, De Beers started supporting the formalization of the ASM sector "by raising standards and opening up a new source of ethical diamond supply through the group's industryleading distribution channel." De Beers' GemFair program, which started with the Kono District in Sierra Leone, now has 160 registered members.

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  • World Diamond Council advoes for Africa's artisanal diamond .

     · At the permitted areas, diamond exports are approved monthly by a monitoring team, as the national government has been working closely with the Kimberley Process to enable the sale of artisanallymined alluvial stones. See Also Africa, NEWS Zambian president names new mines minister

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  • alluvial diamond mining process

    Alluvial Diamond Processing Plant. Alluvial Diamond Processing Plant. In june, 2017 dove setup a complete processing plant explorer500 in explorer500 plant has been configured for alluvial placer diamond mine with high content clay presence, and handles the capacity of up to 60 tph plant is configured with slurry feed ore station for washing .

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  • Sierra Leone: mining licence process map

    The entire mining licence award process takes between 10 to 60 working days. For largescale mining licenses, the appliion fee is US 25,000, the annual licence fee is 500,000 USD, and 10% of annual license fee for monitoring. The entire process takes about 60 working days.

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  • Navigating the intergenerational divide? Youth, artisanal diamond ...

     · artisanal mining activities – informal, labourintensive, lowtech mineral extraction and processing – have been particularly vital to sierra leone's burgeoning youth population in the context of an employmentconstrained economy, although patron–client relationships have had a long history of mediating access to resources in rural stretches of .

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  • GENDER ISSUES IN THE ARTISANAL AND SMALLSCALE MINING SECTOR .

    In some artisanal mining gold sites in Ghana and Sierra Leone, women participate in all steps of the extraction process on equal footing with their male counterparts. In the CAR, women are said to be excluded from diamond digging for cultural reasons, but .

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