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

Resources Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 64-70

  Aubynn, Anthony ^a  

^a Gold Fields Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Encroachment; Engagement; Legality; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ENCROACHMENT; ENGAGEMENT; LARGE-SCALE MININGS; LEGALITY; SECURITY FORCES; SMALL-SCALE MININGS; SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS; TERRITORIALITY;

MINING;

ARTISANAL MINING; GOLD MINE; LEGAL RIGHTS; SMALL SCALE MINING; SUSTAINABILITY; TERRITORIALITY;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 60749086474     PISSN: 03014207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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