Introduction. The proliferation in recent time of unregulated artisanal gold mining activities in Zamfara State, Nigeria has fuelled instability and lead poisoning crisis across gold mining communities primarily in Anka and Bukkuyum Local Government Areas thereby placing a significant burden on the already fragile economy and heath care system in the state [].
Get MoreThe Advocate (Episode 23)Uche digs up an issue that some would clearly like buried: "Zamfara; Gold mining and undeclared proceeds".-----...
Get MoreNigeria's mining sector was engulfed with the outbreak of lead poisoning in 2008 that drew global attention to rescue and remedy the …
Get More"The disaster brought gold mining in Zamfara state to global spotlight, particularly artisanal mining which is the dominant mining activities in many communities"
Get MoreOffice of Foreign Disaster Assistance. ... In Zamfara State, gold mining ... The presumptive source of the outbreak was associated with semi-industrial scale gold-ore mining and processing that ...
Get More4 mins read A twitter user claimed that gold deposits in Zamfara State belong to Zamfara State while Niger Delta oil belongs to Nigeria. False. All gold deposits across Nigeria belong to the Federal Government. Full text A twitter user, Terry, claimed that Zamfara gold belongs to Zamfara State. The claim, posted on his handle, @_terry2020, implies double […]
Get MoreA mining survey report indicated that the federal government lost about N3.23 trillion equivalent to $9billion in revenue accruable from gold exports due to the activities of illegal miners across the country, including Zamfara in 2017.
Get MoreZamfara is a mineral-rich state, with significant deposits of gold. The acute lead poisoning in Zamfara is a result of artisanal gold mining: small scale mining
Get MoreHow a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of Nigeria. It is a pattern seen in various parts of the world — children being sickened from exposure to lead from mining activities. But the scale of the problem in Nigeria's gold-mining region of Zamfara is unprecedented: More than 400 children have died and thousands more have been severely ...
Get MoreZamfara LP morbidity-prevalence effectively reduced from >97% (2010) to <3% (2018), Niger's reduced from 98% (2015) to <1% (2018). LP control program in Niger was so successful, handing-over by ...
Get MoreThe Zamfara Gold, Hatchet Jobbers and Nigerian Unity, By Zailani Bappa ... He resolved to revolutionalise the mining sector in …
Get MoreWHO and multiple partners have positioned that, resolving the Zamfara lead poisoning disaster requires coordinated and integrated medical intervention, environmental remediation and establishment of safer mining and processing methods [1,3]. Consequently, there is the need for long term engagement on the part of leaders and authorities at ...
Get MoreThe artisanal gold mining around Anka often leads to land contamination, causing lead poisoning, especially in children. Two of Zuwaira's …
Get MoreBrown M and Woolf A (2022) Zamfara gold mining lead poisoning disaster—Nigeria, Africa, 2010 History of Modern Clinical Toxicology, 10.1016/B978-0-12-822218-8.00012-0, (97-107), . Schwartz F, Lee S and Darrah T (2021) A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining Worldwide, Poverty, and the Associated Health Impacts, …
Get MoreSince 2010, TIFO has partnered with the Nigerian Government and multiple NGOs to address the world's worst childhood lead poisoning outbreak in artisanal gold mining communities in Zamfara and Niger States. More than 400 children died of acute lead poisoning.
Get MoreBetween Zamfara's Gold And Niger Delta's Crude Oil. Although illegal mining of gold and other precious metals as well as solid minerals had been going on in the northern part of Nigeria for decades, two recent events have given official seal to the direct assault on the Constitution on ownership and exploitation of minerals.
Get MoreHow a gold mining boom may kill more children in Zamfara Child miners swarm Kadauri gold field, drink mud to sate thirst The unholy triad of smugglers, bandits, artisanal miners In Maru local ...
Get MoreBackground: From 2010 through 2013, integrated health and environmental responses addressed an unprecedented epidemic lead poisoning in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. Artisanal gold mining caused widespread contamination resulting in the deaths of > 400 children.
Get MoreJOHN CHUMO: Unsustainable gold mining a disaster in waiting The practice has become the worst enemy of water, air and the general biodiversity, posing a threat to the ecosystem survival. Opinion
Get MoreThe federal government on Monday declared Zamfara State a 'no-fly zone' to halt the swap of gold for arms by armed bandits, other criminals and illegal gold miners in the state, the Presidency and security sources told Daily Trust Tuesday night.. It also banned gold mining in the state even though this is not the first time it is taking this decision on mining.
Get MoreThe introduction of mechanized mining by the mining companies (e.g. Amalgamated Tin Mining Company of Nigeria, Exlands, Gold and Base Metals etc.) led to higher productivity of the mines and consequently the devastation of vast areas of land; as no law was put in place by the colonial government to guide mineral extraction.
Get MoreSeven hundred children in eight Zamfara Communities have died of lead poisoning since it was discovered eleven years ago. Medicines Sans Frontiers known as Doctors without borders in April 2010, discovered an outbreak of lead poisoning associated with artisanal gold mining in Bukkuyum and Anka Local Government Areas.
Get MoreFG to Matawalle: We own the gold deposits in Zamfara. The federal government has cautioned the Zamfara state government over making impressions of owning gold deposits in the state. Olamilekan ...
Get MoreIn the Nigerian state of Zamfara, a gold boom has led to a medical disaster with more than 400 children dead from lead poisoning and thousands sickened. Jane Cohen of Human Rights Watch tells host Bruce Gellerman why so many children were exposed.
Get MoreHome » Sweet Crude » Zamfara mining disaster: Still a human rights debacle. Posted in Sweet Crude ... and recently, gold mining in Zamfara State, host communities have faced the brunt of greedy ...
Get MoreConsidering the Zamfara gold misadventure as a breach of the 1999 Constitution, as amended and other extant laws, a lawyer, Mr. Joseph Onu Silas, had petitioned the CBN, seeking cancelation of the ...
Get MoreBut rarely have they coincided with such a disastrous outcome as in Zamfara. Artisanal gold mining — which is often unpermitted or illegal — typically involves manual labor, both in the mines and in extracting ore by breaking and grinding rock. Chemical extraction of gold ore using mercury also poses serious health hazards.
Get MoreZamfara, go for gold. Sesan. Published. 24 April 2019. A revelation that N353 billion worth of gold smuggled out of the country was sold in the international market …
Get More28 December 2021. At least 31 miners were killed and eight missing in Sudan on Tuesday when a rudimentary gold mine collapsed, a government official said. The disaster occurred near Nuhud, a town ...
Get MoreIt is no common secret that the gold mining activity in Zamfara has acted like a huge magnet, drawing all sorts of cut-throat criminal activity to the state. The exploitation of high-value gold resource has spawned well-funded criminal activity up to the point that aircraft are been used to ferry arms to the state and ferry out gold to the ...
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