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Meeting #2
April 11-12, 2013
University of Ghana, Legon
Program of Abstracts
Natural Science Workgroup
Life cycle impact assessment of environmental impact assessment of artisanal mining in Ghana: a case study of Dunkwa
Samuel Obiri, Edward Antwi, Niladri Basu, Mozhgon Rajaee, O.D. Ansa-Ansare, F.A. Armah, Samuel J. Cobbina
Artisanal mining and the quality of water from River Mediabewu in Krobiso in Eastern Region of Ghana
D.A. Anang, Edward Antwi, Samuel Obiri
Studies on the mercury-selenium interaction in some parts of the lower Pra River
Vincent Nartey, Raphael K. Klake
The potential effect of mining on water quality in Tarkwa Nsuaem municipality in Western Region, Ghana
Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Millicent Asare, H. Noye-Nortey, Isabella Quakyi
Determination of mercury, arsenic, cadmium, copper, cyanide, lead and zinc in water bodies Nangodi a small – scale mining community in the Nabdam District, Upper East Region, Ghana
Samuel Jerry Cobbina, Samuel Obiri, J.Z. Dagben
Arsenic, mercury, cadmium, cobalt, copper, lead, zinc and manganese levels in blood serum and whole blood of 300 resident adults from mining and non-mining communities in Ghana
Samuel Obiri, P.O. Yeboah, Shiloh Osae, D. Carboo
Multimedia exposure assessment of mercury in a small-scale gold mining community in Northeast Ghana
Mozhgon Rajaee, Rachel Long, Mark L. Wilson, Thomas G. Robins, Elisha P. Renne, Niladri Basu
Social Science Workgroup
Engagement from Within and Without: A historical analysis of mining in Bole, Northern Region
Samuel Ntewusu
Mining and its consequences in Akyem Abuakwa
Ababio Emmanuel Ofosu-Mensah
Intersecting worlds: small-scale/industrial gold-mining, miner migration, and knowledge transfer
Elisha P. Renne
Illegal small-scale mining in Ghana: a protest of tradition against modernity?
Emmanuel Tenkorang
Water values in a Ghanaian small-scale gold mining community
Rachel Long, Elisha P. Renne, Thomas G. Robins, Mark L. Wilson, Kenneth Pelig-Ba, Mozhgon Rajaee, Allison Yee, Elizabeth Koomson, Codi Sharp, Jing Lu, Niladri Basu
Human Health Workgroup
A review of reported injuries from small-scale mining in Ghana
Edith Clarke, Emmanuel K-Amoah
Heavy metal toxicity in the Ayanfuri cluster of Mining Communities, Ghana
Eric Odei, Edith Clarke
Mercury exposure among miners in an artisanal gold mining community in Ashanti Region of Ghana
Edward Ebow Kwaansa-Ansah, Osei Akoto, Niladri Basu
Mercury exposure, blood pressure and lung function in a small-scale gold mining community in northeast Ghana
Mozhgon Rajaee, Allison K. Yee, Rachel Long, Thomas G. Robins, Mark L. Wilson, Elisha P. Renne, Niladri Basu
Human health risk assessment and disease profile from exposure to toxic chemicals in water bodies by artisanal miners in Bogoso in Prestea Huni Valley District, Ghana
Samuel Obiri, Samuel Jerry Cobbina, F.A. Armah, Edward Antwi, B. Ason
Policy and Economics Workgroup
Understanding health risks in small-scale gold mining communities of Ghana: analytic approaches to inform policy
Mark Wilson
Illegal mining in Ghana and the environment
Simon Atebiya
Assessment of inequalities in the livelihood between mining and non-mining workers in mining economy
Anthony Osei-Fosu, Peter Agyei-Baffour
Impact assessment of health infrastructure projects undertaken by Gold Fields Ghana Ltd. at its Damang and Tarkwa sites in Western Region of Ghana
Anthony Osei-Fosu, Kwadwo Afriyie, Peter Dwumah
Economic burden of public health externalities associated with small-scale mining in the Amansie West District of Ghana
Peter Agyei-Baffour, Anthony Osei-Fosu, J. Appiah Nrkumah, KJ Opoku Afriyie