Mineralizing Africa and artisanal mining's democratizing influence

Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-22

  Bryceson, Deborah Fahy ^a   Jønsson, Jesper Bosse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Development Planning and Environment for COWI Tanzania ^*  (Tanzania)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203362747     Document Type: Chapter

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