Please, I need a material on how about how technology transformed Artisan mining into advance/developed sector......Please, I will appreciate any response ASAP thanks in Advance!
Dear Abdulazeez,
Try these links
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/za/Documents/energy-resources/ZA_ToughChoices_05062014.pdf
http://www.icmm.com/website/publications/pdfs/4441.pdf
http://www.africaminingvision.org/amv_resources/AMV/ISG%20Report_eng.pdf
Dear Abdulazeez,
Here is a critically important reference. It shows that artisanal mining in Europe was originally the same as 'mining': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_metallica
In Mongolia, a hundred thousand nomads with zero experience of mining had to quickly find out how to mine for alluvial gold or else starve. This paper includes logical steps in advancing shaft haulage as a 'technology ladder', and how to do total extraction of placer deposits underground without leaving pillars of valuable ore behind... and how to collaborate to dewater deposits etc.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285756289_Anatomy_of_the_People%27s_gold_rush_in_modern_Mongolia
This sample chapter gives some insight into how industrial commercial placer gold mining is now done with minimum impacts and maximum efficiency - very different from traditional gold rushes.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/202236039_Chapter_1_Profitable_Placer_Mining_with_Low_Impacts_-_sample_chapter
There can be synergy between artisanal and industrial exploration methods, especially when bulk samples are required from underground. Here is one remarkable example:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308978783_Novel_Windlass-Shaft_Safety_System_for_Bulk_Sampling_and_Artisanal_Mining
There is a lot of confusion in the literature about gold panning, an activity shared by recreational miners, artisanal miners and industrial prospectors etc. This article sheds some light on the cross-overs: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313562132_Gold_recovery_in_Gold_Pans_-the_term_%27Panning%27
There is remarkable regional traditional divergence in gold panning technology. Americans, Canadians and Australians use gold pans, as these are traditional from frying pans with the handle snapped off.
Russians use lotoks each carved from a tree trunk as Siberia is full of trees and metal pans were less available:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228457236_Gold_recovery_in_wooden_trays_in_Russia_-_the_term_%27lotoking%27
Meanwhile, Mongolia nomads who don't fry food but boil it, and have few trees in the Gobi Desert and Steppe grasslands, first used aluminium soviet washing-up bowls that every family had, and switched to green plastic bowls that are cheaper and easier to carry on their backs as ninja bowls aka ninja turtles.
Good luck.
Robin
Article Anatomy of the People's gold rush in modern Mongolia
Chapter Chapter 1: Profitable Placer Mining with Low Impacts - sample chapter
Presentation Novel Windlass-Shaft Safety System for Bulk Sampling and Art...
Article Gold recovery in Gold Pans -the term 'Panning'
Article Gold recovery in wooden trays in Russia - the term 'lotoking'
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