Site specific: Heterogeneity of smallscale gold mining in ...
This paper therefore examines the sociotechnical dimensions of SSM in Ghana, representing one of the largest smallscale gold mining industries in the world, employing more than 1 million miners (Banchirig, 2008).In order to query localized SSM heterogeneity, a catalogue of SSM operations within 1km of a rural community in the Upper Denkyira East Municipal District of Ghana was completed ...