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Get PriceThe Impact of Gold Mining on Local Farming Communities in Ghana Emmanuel Yamoah Tenkorang and Patrick Osei-Kufuor lected communities in the Tarkwa, Obuasi, and Kenyasi mining areas of Ghana. The needs of s identified in this and basic
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Get Price1. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2007 Oct;79(4):377-9. Epub 2007 Aug 3. Arsenic, cadmium, and mercury in cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagititolium) and watercocoyam (Colocasia esculenta) in Tarkwa a mining community. Essumang DK(1), Dodoo DK, Obiri S, Yaney
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Get PriceEg Kumi-Boateng, Boye, and Issaka (2012) applied the use of Remote Sensing and GIS techniques to assess the impact of mining on vegetation in the Tarkwa Mining Area (TMA) of Ghana. The researchers discovered that there was observable impact of mining on vegetation.
Get PriceEg Kumi-Boateng, Boye, and Issaka (2012) applied the use of Remote Sensing and GIS techniques to assess the impact of mining on vegetation in the Tarkwa Mining Area (TMA) of Ghana. The researchers discovered that there was observable impact of mining on vegetation.
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Get Price1. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2007 Oct;79(4):377-9. Epub 2007 Aug 3. Arsenic, cadmium, and mercury in cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagititolium) and watercocoyam (Colocasia esculenta) in Tarkwa a mining community. Essumang DK(1), Dodoo DK, Obiri S, Yaney
Get PriceGold mining has played an important role in Ghana's economy, however the negative environmental and socio-economic effects on the host communities associated with gold mining have overshadowed these economic gains. It is within this context that this paper assessed in an integrated manner the environmental and socio-economic impacts of artisanal gold mining in the Tarkwa
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Get PriceThe Impact of Gold Mining on Local Farming Communities in Ghana Emmanuel Yamoah Tenkorang and Patrick Osei-Kufuor lected communities in the Tarkwa, Obuasi, and Kenyasi mining areas of Ghana. The needs of s identified in this and basic
Get PriceThere is one operational manganese ore mine in Ghana, Nsuta-Tarkwa, which is located at Tarkwa Banso in the Western Region, utilising an opencast, strip-mining method. In 2006 the mine produced 1.6m tonnes, of which 52% was exported to Ukraine, 37% to China, and the remainder to Norway.
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Get PriceStudies conducted by Bortey-Sam et al. [] and Hayford et al. [] on the impact of gold mining in soil and foods collected around mining communities in Tarkwa showed high levels of some toxic metals including As and Hg.Similarly, work done by Asante et al. [] showed high concentrations of As and manganese (Mn) in borehole, well and river/stream water in Tarkwa.
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