Special issue: Small-scale gold mining, mercury and environmental health: perspectives on rural Ghana

International Journal of Environment and Pollution 41(3/4) 2010

• Small-scale gold mining, the environment and human health: an introduction to the Ghana case
• A viewpoint on small-scale gold mining in Ghana: a regulatory perspective on current practices, mercury use and the UNIDO and EU projects
• Policy challenges on mercury use in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining sector
• Mercury in fish: a critical examination of gold mining and human contamination in Ghana
• Potential repercussions of a mercury ban on the artisanal and small-scale gold-mining sector: a viewpoint
• Appraising the Global Mercury Project: an adaptive management approach to combating mercury pollution in small-scale gold mining
• 'Fair trade' gold: A key to alleviating mercury pollution in sub-Saharan Africa?
• The myth of alternative livelihoods: artisanal mining, gold and poverty
• The identification and testing of a method for mercury-free gold processing for artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Ghana
• The application of direct smelting of gold concentrates as an alternative to mercury amalgamation in small-scale gold mining operations in Ghana
• The effect of comminution equipment on gravity gold recovery in small-scale mining operations
• Comparison of removal of chromium (III) from aqueous solution by two kinds of modified diatomite: manganese-oxide-modified diatomite and microemulsion-modified diatomite
• Optimising the rehabilitation of polluted mine tailings and water by an organic medium passive acid mine drainage treatment in South Africa
• Novel method for producing uncertainty-weighted averages from a time series of ambient air measurements