gold mining in zamfara state and its effects

Outbreak of Fatal Childhood Lead Poisoning Related to Artisanal Gold

Background: In May 2010, a team of national and international organizations was assembled to investigate children's deaths due to lead poisoning in villages in northwestern Nigeria.Objectives: Our goal was to determine the cause of the childhood lead poisoning outbreak, investigate risk factors for child mortality, and identify children < 5 …

Nigeria suspends mining in Zamfara state after banditry surges

Nigeria has largely untapped deposits of minerals including gold, tin and zinc. Some 80 percent of mining in Nigeria is carried out on an artisanal basis and gold in Zamfara is routinely smuggled ...

Gold, lead and death in Nigeria

Wednesday, February 15, 2012. An unprecedented lead poisoning epidemic in Zamfara, Nigeria, is the result of artisanal gold mining operations, where families participate in the gold processing. Courtesy of TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc. Nigerian families process gold ore in flour mills.

Investigation of potential environmental radiation risks associated

UNSCEAR (1993) Sources and effects of ionizing radiation: UNSCEAR 1993 report to the General Assembly with scientific annexes/United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. ... R. et al. Investigation of potential environmental radiation risks associated with artisanal gold mining in Zamfara State, Nigeria. …

Geological map of Anka Area, Nigeria.

Join for free. Download scientific diagram | Geological map of Anka Area, Nigeria. from publication: Lead and Mercury Contamination Associated with Artisanal Gold Mining in Anka, Zamfara State ...

Gold Mining Connections to Killings in Zamfara, …

The article pins the violence on the disorganized gold mining industry in the state, whereby gold is smuggled out of Zamfara to markets in nearby Togo, Benin and Niger and then …

Zamfara gold controversy and echoes of resource …

26 October 2020 | 4:22 am. Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) After a lull, the clamour for resource control is again resonating in the oil …

Zamfara's Gold Veins Focus Of Unabated Violence

The unregulated and unsafe artisanal gold mining and processing in Zamfara State have fuelled lead poisoning and contamination crisis in communities. In March 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) was alerted to a high number of child fatalities in Zamfara State, where an estimated 400 children died.

Lead Poisoning MSF Briefing Paper Crisis in May 2012 …

There has been gold mining in Zamfara state, northern Nigeria, for decades, but until recently it was not widespread or profitable. Since 2009, the price of gold has appreciated substantially, from around US$800 per ounce, to US$1653 (May 2012). This has resulted in a renewed interest in mining in Zamfara state. An increasingly active

How Zamfara gold mining resurrected clamour for …

But controversy surrounding the establishment of a gold reserve by the Zamfara State government, and reports of the purchase of gold from the state by the Central Bank of Nigeria under the PAGMI …

Zamfara gold mining lead poisoning disaster—Nigeria, …

This hazard was well illustrated in the poisoning disaster event that involved a poverty-stricken area in Nigeria—the rural Zamfara State in 2010. Small-scale gold ore mining operations there contaminated entire communities with lead, which proved especially deadly for the children. At the time of the lead poisoning event, Nigeria was a ...

Effects of artisanal gold mining activities on soil properties …

outbreak of lead poisoning among children in two villages in Zamfara State, Nigeria to gold mining . ... Soderholm and Svahn, 2015) yet, most of its discussed effects in studies (e.g., Klukanova ...

'A wonderful accomplishment': success for …

Since 2010, more than 600 children have died from lead poisoning in Zamfara state and hundreds more have been left with brain damage and physical disabilities as a result of hazardous artisanal ...

Zamfara gold: Threat to development and national …

April 17, 2019. Zamfara gold: Threat to development and national stability. By Inwalomhe Donald. ZAMFARA gold miners war of ex-generals and …

(PDF) Zamfara lead poisoning saga: Comparison of lead contamination

A Case of lead poisoning in recent times is the 2010 lead poisoning in Bagega Village of Zamfara State, Nigeria in which 17,000 people were affected and 500 casualties were recorded due to mining ...

Unravelling the gold-militant conflict nexus in …

A profound illustration of this thesis is evident in Nigeria's Zamfara State, where the complexities of gold mining have become dangerously entangled with …

CURTAILING ILLEGAL MINING OPERATION IN NIGERIA

work, mineral mining and its sales. Where there is no adequate policy, unlawful mineral ... The Inspector General of Police in Nigeria hence banned mining in Zamfara State 2 (two) years ago where over 80% of illegal mining for Goldoccur. ... EFFECTS OF ILLEGAL MINING ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA 1) The Physical Environment:

Oil theft, illegal mining plagued Nigeria's economy for years

Despite the government's ban on artisanal gold mining in Zamfara State and the deployment of soldiers to enforce it, illegal mining and associated conflicts persist. Over 5 000 people have been killed in Zamfara State in the past five years. Expanding that, collusion between politically connected Nigerians and Chinese corporations in illegal ...

Project ENACT Strategic Assessment: Illegal Gold …

The presence of non-state armed groups in gold mining areas, who seek to finance their activities with the illicit proceeds from this natural resource, is likely to be controlled by some OCGs, as instability facilitates illegal mining operations and …

Nigeria: mass lead poisoning from mining activities, Zamfara State …

Description of the Situation. 11 November 2011 - The mass lead poisoning from mining activities in Zamfara State in Nigeria, which was discovered in March 2010, continues to affect villagers in three Local Government Areas (LGAs): Anka, Bukkuyum and Maru. While the full scale of the problem is still not fully determined, a survey carried out …

Childhood Lead Poisoning Associated with Gold Ore …

In Zamfara State, gold mining began in the early 1900s ... Older children and adults are also at risk for harmful lead exposure and its adverse health effects, and children may be exposed in utero or through breast-feeding if their mothers have elevated BLLs. In addition, villagers may be exposed through consumption of lead-contaminated food or ...

Electrochemical determination of the levels of lead and

Lead and cadmium poisoning is common in some parts of Nigeria as a result of artisanal mining of gold. The poisoning has led to the deaths of hundreds of women and children below the age of five years. In this study, the concentrations of lead and cadmium in eight soil samples collected from selected artisanal gold mining locations in Niger State …

Bloody gold in Zamfara: Threat to stability or …

Unfortunately, mining gold in Zamfara is unstructured, largely informal and illegal. Artisans, most of whom are unskilled, are in …

Illegal gold mining responsible for violent crimes in Zamfara …

He said the illegal mining of gold in Zamfara state by "Nigerians and collaborators from the West African region and beyond", "had gone on for years unabated".

Illegal mining and rural banditry in North West Nigeria

Sokoto and Zamfara states.3 Over 3 600 people were kidnapped between 2011 and 2019. In Zamfara state alone, a reported 6 319 people, including women and children, were killed between June 2011 and May 2019.4 Currently, the Birni-Gwari axis of Kaduna is referred to as 'the axis of danger and hazards', including the Katsina-

Nigeria (Zamfara)

At the request of the government of Zamfara State, a comprehensive, integrated, medical/public health/environmental response is underway. The plan reduces exposure and provides a safe-mining program addressing longer-term issues and re-occurrence prevention. This project invloved the coordination of many agencies to achieve success.

Zamfara gold: Threat to development and national stability

The Zamfara gold remains a major obstacle to peace and a driver of the black market economy in the state. It provides a significant source of income to armed actors, from the North-West who kill ...

Soil Lead Concentrations in Dareta Village, Zamfara, Nigeria

Acute widespread lead poisoning took place in Zamfara State, Nigeria in 2010. Over 735 children were reported dead and thousands sickened by the neurotoxin. The source was traced to artisanal gold mining and processing in the villages. An immediate medical response protocol was developed to provide oral chelation therapy to the …

Neuropathological lesions in the brains of goats in North …

Indiscriminate small-scale artisanal gold mining activities were reported to have caused anthropogenic heavy metal environmental pollution in Zamfara State, north-western Nigeria. There is little or no information on the neurotoxic effects and related neuropathological lesions due to environmental pollution in the animal population. …

ARMED BANDITRY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC …

f the people of Zamfara State and the central source of income (ThisDay, September 21, 2008). That‟s why the motor of the State is tagged as „farming is our pride‟. Though, the discovering of „Gold Mining‟ in 2009 worldwide gold prices rose dramatically is now becoming a greater source of income in the State but it