'Playing with fire': the countdown to mining the deep seas …
China sponsors more exploration licences than any other state. But its dominance of critical mineral supply chains could be threatened if deep-sea mining proceeds before Beijing is ready, analysts ...
Health and Safety Risk Mitigation among Artisanal and Small …
1. Introduction. Mining is a hazardous occupation, accounting for 1% of the global workforce and 8% of fatal occupational accidents, with more people employed in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) than large-scale mining (LSM) [].In Zimbabwe, the zero-harm policy [] targets the formal sector, which includes LSM and excludes the …
The changing attitude towards artisanal cobalt miners
November 24, 2020. The attitude towards cobalt mined by artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) has come a long way in just a few short years. Once under the spotlight by end users as a questionable, high-risk source, but more recently under the spotlight as an increasingly safe, stable and traceable source.
Industry trends: Collaboration, exploration, and skills …
Attitudes toward exploration in the mining and metals industry reflect a dichotomy. While copper exploration focuses on extending profitable assets, battery …
Factors affecting local attitudes to mineral exploration: …
This study shows that local attitudes to mineral exploration and mining correlate strongly and are intimately linked. Reflecting a consequential conceptualization …
Attitude of the Chinese public toward off-site construction: …
IEEE Access. 2020. TLDR. A novel text mining approach based on keyword extraction and topic modeling is introduced to identify key concerns and their dynamics of on-site issues for better decision-making process and showed that the proposed method could successfully extract key concerns hidden in texts and identify their changes with …
Is Mexico's Mining Sector Too Risky For Foreign Investors?
While worldwide investment in mining exploration has dropped to about half of what it was 10 years ago, Latin America continues to be the top region for mining exploration, receiving approximately ...
Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies 2022
mining policies While geologic and economic considerations are important factors in mineral exploration, a region's policy climate is also an important investment consid-eration. The Policy Perception Index (PPI), is a compos-ite index that measures the overall policy attractive-ness of the 62 jurisdictions in the survey. The index is
Refining the preconditions of a social licence to operate (SLO
This study analyses the reputation and attitudes towards mining and mineral exploration in the three reference countries of INFACT Project (Spain, Finland and Germany) and in leading mining ...
Refining the preconditions of a social licence to operate (SLO
The correlation analysis shed more light on this issue by showing that one prerequisite for SLO seems to be a positive attitude towards foreign mining companies. With this study we contribute to the novel research on the public attitudes towards mining (e.g. Moffat et al., 2014a, Moffat et al., 2014b, Zhang et al., 2015). Through the findings ...
Mining in the Newspapers: Local and Regional Media
On the other hand, this could be explained by the mining companies' desire to influence the public agenda to maintain a positive attitude towards mining. In Finland, the mining and exploration companies were the most prominent group of actors, followed by regional-level authorities, and representatives of municipal administration and ...
The pure graphite rush in Greenland
The ministry announced that it has, "a positive attitude towards the exploration and mining industry in general," and expressed strong support specifically to the Amitsoq graphite project. The potential for renewable energy sources to supply both the mines and the towns in south Greenland was also discussed with 'NunaGreen', a newly ...
Attitudes of the public and medical professionals toward …
Text mining was used to explore the public and medical professionals' concerns and attitudes toward nurse prescribing from irregular internet data, including personnel, time, topic, and sentiment analysis. First, we conducted a personnel analysis to identify the professional categories of users in social media and medical forums.
History of gold mining in Victoria
Victoria is a world-renowned gold province and our history is closely connected to gold mining. Gold discovery at Ballarat in 1851 sparked Victoria's famous gold rush. An estimated 6000 diggers (miners) arrived each week seeking their fortune. Ballarat was considered the world's richest alluvial goldfield during its peak between …
Most attractive mining jurisdictions revealed
The 2020 iteration of the survey evaluated a total of 77 jurisdictions around the world, ranking them according to an Investment Attractiveness Index, which was calculated by combining measurements of a region's geological attractiveness with the effects of government policy on attitudes towards exploration investment.
Approach Towards Deep-Sea Mining: Current Status and …
Estimates for mining of nodules at different mining rates (1–3 MT/y) show that ores between 3000 and 10,000 tonnes could be mined per day and the area (size) of the mine site would range between 4267 and 12,800 km 2 (Table 2.7) which is 5.68–17.06% of the 'contract' area (75,000 km 2) for nodule abundance of 5 kg/m 2 and …
Why Pacific Island States Are Concerned About Deep-Sea …
Attitudes toward the deep sea are currently driven by commerce and industry—leaving the region ripe for exploitation. A concern for many Pacific states is …
'Playing with fire': the countdown to mining the deep seas …
China sponsors more exploration licences than any other state. But its dominance of critical mineral supply chains could be threatened if deep-sea mining …
Refining the preconditions of a social licence to operate (SLO
attitude towards the acceptability of mining Factors influencing acceptability in Kainuu Among the environmental attitudes explored, only the attitude emphasizing environmental protection and caring for the environment is statistically significant in Kainuu, having a negative connection to the acceptability of mining for uranium in Finland (− ...
Annual Survey of Mining Companies, 2018 | Fraser Institute
This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute's 2018 annual survey of mining and exploration companies. The survey is an attempt to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulatory uncertainty affect exploration investment. The survey was circulated electronically to approximately 2,600 ...
Australian attitudes toward mining Citizen Survey – 2014 …
In a CSIRO survey of Australian attitudes towards mining, Moffatt, Zhang and Boughen (2014) found that the community lacked faith that governments could hold the mining industry accountable, or ...
Method of Appraising Economic Prospects of Mining Exploration …
The purpose of mining exploration is to discover workable deposits, and to acquire certain information on the natural wealth. This, of course, will involve certain costs. With zero expenditure there is zero information. ... Obviously, the determination of such optimum is impossible unless a certain attitude towards risk is adopted. Such ...
Deep Sea Mining and the Green Transition
Deep Sea Mining and the Green Transition. As world economies seek to reduce carbon emissions, they have increasingly pursued new forms of clean energy development. Minerals needed to transition to clean energy innovations, in particular for solar panels, wind farms, and electric vehicles, constitute the fastest-growing segment of …
The Geopolitics of Deep-Sea Mining and Green …
The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) mandates that states govern deep-sea mining on seabed within their national jurisdiction. But roughly 60 percent of the ocean bottom is …
Muslim women's attitudes toward infant feeding in Qatar: An exploration …
Method. A convenience sample of postpartum Muslim women (N = 414) were recruited between November 2019 and January 2020 in a large maternity facility in Qatar.A pre-developed questionnaire and the IIFAS were used to collect data. Both Arabic (n = 228) and English (n = 186) versions of the IIFAS were distributed postnatally to measure …
Finnish attitudes toward mining Citizen Survey
Mining provides access to a range of resources that are essential for societal benefit. However, mining must also demonstrate that it has a 'social licence to (PDF) Finnish attitudes toward mining Citizen Survey …
Addressing Sustainability in the Mining Industry Through …
Volume 11, Issue 1. https://doi/10.1177/22779779221078673. Contents. PDF / ePub. More. Abstract. Sustainability challenges are often complex and cannot be …
Modeling the public attitude towards organic foods: a big …
Abstract. This study aims to identify the topics that users post on Twitter about organic foods and to analyze the emotion-based sentiment of those tweets. The study addresses a call for an application of big data and text mining in different fields of research, as well as proposes more objective research methods in studies on food consumption.
(PDF) Modeling the public attitude towards organic foods: a …
Abstract. This study aims to identify the topics that users post on T witter about organic foods. and to analyze the emotion‑based sentiment of those tweets. The study addr esses a. call for an ...
Attitudes toward age: An exploration in school-age …
Studied attitudes toward young, middle-aged, and old persons in 1,000 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th grades. 3 newspaper photographs were presented to the Ss, who estimated the persons' ages and wrote stories about each photograph in preferred order. Scores from a semantic differential which provided 3 factors, evaluation, affect, and activity-potency, …