The study is based for the most part on information obtained from primary sources, including official documents relating to the copper mining industry in Zambia and available historical books on the country, which contain ...

There are two aspects to the environmental problem resulting from man's exploitation of mineral resources. The first is connected with water and air pollution which accompanies extraction and particularly the processing ...

Le présent rapport constitue des études; sectorialles nécessaires à l'élaboration d'une étude d'ensemble sur l'industrialisation et la coopération économique en Afrique du nord.

Throughout Africa numerous wells are drilled each year for domestic water supplies and irrigation purposes. The application of borehole geophysics, in which the properties of the penetrated strata are measured, could "be ...

The mineral development programme executed by the Department of Technical Co—operation for Development of the United Nations Secretariat, financed by the United Nations Development Programme and other sources^ has in the ...

This report presents an assessment of the prospects for the integration of South Africa into the Southern African mining industry, which was undertaken by the Lusaka-based MULPOC. The assessment was conducted as part of ...

There are currently no universal definitions of artisanal or small-scale mining. The lack of consensus, as echoed by several researchers, e.g., Priester et al., 1993; Taupitz et al., 1993 and others, is due to the fact ...

This paper presents The first regional conference on the development and utilization of mineral resources in Africa held in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania in February 1981 : implications of the recommendations for the ...

African countries, intraregional trade can act as a key channel for enhancing the transformative power of trade. While the share of intra-African trade to the total trade of African countries is currently low relative to ...

There is little doubt that the broad objective of the Centre; to pool resources for the development of minerals as a basis for socio-economic advancement of the Eastern and Southern African subregion, has always remained ...