Sustainable Community Development in Mining

Introduction

To achieve significant sustainability-linked transformation, there is urgent need for better understanding how the extractive mining sector for key minerals such as gold, marble, precious stones and other high value minerals can transform the communities’ relationships, the natural and social environment to achieve sustainable futures in mining regions.

Against this background, this course addresses the key fundamental linkages between mining and societal transformation towards sustainability (T2S) in Artisanal & Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM), by examining how existing ASGM dynamics can develop into sustainable mining futures. Key linkages between mining, the environment and sustainable economic and societal transformation are covered.

Course Outline

The key modules to be covered in the course include

ü  Sustainable artisanal mining methods

ü  Mineral exploration methods for precious metals

ü  Mining laws and best international practice

ü  Sustainable environment conservation during mining

ü  build on endogenous processes of technological and socio-economic change

ü  recognize flows and mobility as fundamental to conceptualisations of sustainability

ü  address governance and wellbeing issues through the co-production of knowledge and action with gold miners and mining communities

ü  5 day field work and project

Targeted Audience

ü  Investors in the mining sector

ü  NGOs, Civil Societies, Community based organizations and other Non-profit Entities

ü  Environmental professionals

ü  Financial sector

ü  Geoscientists and Engineers

ü  Regulators and Government bodies

Duration is 40 hours @ 2 weeks