SAP 2.76/WP.130
Industrial Activities Branch
Working Paper
Small-scale gold mining:
Examples from Bolivia, Philippines & Zimbabwe
Edited by Norman S. Jennings
FOOTNOTES
1. Sectoral Activities Department, ILO (E-mail: jennings@ilo.org; Internet: http://www.ilo.org/sector).
2. ILO: Social and labour issues in small-scale mines (Geneva, 1999), 99 pp.
3. MEDMIN, La Paz (E-mail: medmin@mail.megalink.com).
4. Translated from Spanish by Yolanda Vizcarra.
5. Consultant, 73 Devonshire Road, London E17 8QH (E-mail: ayban@aol.com).
6. John Hollaway and Associates, Harare (E-mail: jha@zol.co.zw).
7. Intermediate Technology Development Group: The story of the Shamva Mining Centre (Rugby, 1996).
8. See Appendix 1 for a summary of the procedures for pegging mineral rights in Zimbabwe.
9. For more details see Stidolph, P.A.: "The geology of the country around Shamva", in Zimbabwe Geological Survey Bulletin, No. 78 (Harare, 1997).
10. For a description of this operation see, for instance: Svotwa, R.S.; Bugnosen, E.M.: Shamva Mining Centre Demonstration project: an example of international and local NGO cooperation: Progress and problems to date, paper presented at United Nations Seminar on Guidelines for the Development of Small/Medium Scale Mining, Harare, 1993.
11. For a brief description of this technique and the economic argument for using it at the Button Mine, see Appendix 2.
12. Stidolph, op. cit.
13. Campbell, S.D.G.; Pitfield, P.E.J.: "Structural controls of gold mineralization in the Zimbabwe Craton", in Zimbabwe Geological Survey Bulletin, No. 101 (Harare, 1994).
14. Giles Munyoro, President, Small-scale Miners' Association of Zimbabwe: Personal communication, Harare, 1991.
15. "Perceived" because a number of smaller mines still deposit gold by sending it by registered mail to the refinery. Small-scale miners generally distrust this option.
16. Ignorance of the dangers is widespread. For instance, the drilling services from the SMC are carried out dry, which is in contravention of section 60 of the Mining Management and Safety Regulations.
