Mining Community Research Articles

Radiological landscape of natural resources and mining: Unveiling the environmental impact of naturally occurring radioactive materials in Ghana's mining areas

This study provides a general observation of the status of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) distribution in mining and industrial areas of Ghana in order to establish regional and national data on NORMs. The study includes data on radioactivity concentrations of U-238, Th-232, and K-40 in soils and for water concentrations of Ra-226, Th-228, and K-40 from various mining, oil, and gas communities, as well as water sources used for crop farming and farmlands. The average activity concentrations of U-238, Th-232, and K-40 in the soil samples were found to be 59 ± 16 Bq/kg, 48 ± 15 Bq/kg, and 286 ± 57 Bq/kg, respectively. The average concentration of Ra-226, Th-228, and K-40 in the water samples were found to be 1.62 ± 0.33 Bq/L, 2.08 ± 0.53 Bq/L, and 22.36 ± 3.44 Bq/L, respectively. The estimated average annual effective doses from external and internal exposure pathways in soil and water samples were 0.09 mSv/y and 0.54 mSv/y, respectively. The total annual effective dose resulting from both exposure pathways was calculated to be 0.63 mSv/y, which is below the 1 mSv/y dose limit recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) for controlling public radiation exposure. Based on the radiological hazard indices, the majority of the soil samples were found to be suitable as building materials as their respective indices were below the limits except for two sample locations and the sludge and scale samples. The average Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk (ELCR) value of the water samples was 1.6 times greater than the recommended value of 1.16 × 10−3, presenting a relatively higher risk to the public of developing cancer. No significant regional differences in the levels of radioactive elements. The regression models demonstrate strong interrelationships between the studied elements, with high R-squared values suggesting a predictable nature of one element’s concentration based on others.

Future‐proofing a local government authority for a post‐mining future

AbstractThe inevitable mine lifecycle sequences of the mining industry and the eventual closure of mines has dramatic impacts on mining communities. The complexities of mine closure and planning for a different future beyond mining demand prescient preparation, preferably long before mines close, to optimise community participation in planning and enhance change management opportunities. Convincing others of the usefulness of imagining a future that is so different from the status quo is challenging, and it is especially difficult bringing an entire community on a long‐term planning journey. The Shire of Coolgardie, a small Western Australian local government authority, has embarked on a long‐term mission to build economic and social resilience, shoring up funds that will assist the Shire to ride out the inevitable mine lifecycle sequences of and diversify its income bases. This article builds an evidence‐based approximation of the economic and social benefits of the initiatives accrued across the Shire, outlining the calculated risks taken by the Shire in its quest to ultimately reorient the local economy to one less dependent on mining income and employment. The article concludes with lessons learned and a discussion regarding the replicability of the successful initiatives for other local government authorities elsewhere, particularly in Australia where the legislative restrictions to generate own‐source revenues are so severely limiting.

Heavy metals assessment of farmland soil in Bagega mining community, Zamfara State, Northwestern Nigeria

The present study was conducted to examine the level of heavy metals pollution of farmlandsoil at Bagega community, Anka Zamfara State as a result of artisanal and illegal mining activities going on in the community. Soil samples were collected from farmland soil at thedepth of 15cm, acid digestion was carried out and the solution was subjected to Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer model Varian AA240FS for the metal analysis. The level of soil contamination were assessed by Geo-accumulation Index (Igeo) and Pollution Load Index (PLI). The Geo-accumulation studies show that the soil was moderately polluted by Pb (1.21 mg/kg), Fe (0.9 mg/kg), Zn (0.91 mg/kg) and Cu (1.46 mg/kg). The Pollution Load Index result shows that farmland soil was polluted, with PLI value of 2.1. Also, the geochemical distribution of the metals in the soil samples was revealed by sequential extraction procedures which show that 90 % of the metal concentrations were found in the residual fractions. This signified high level of heavy metals contamination of the farmland soil is associated with the anthropogenic activities such as the mining activities going on in the community.

Sosialisasi Pendekatan Dan Pendampingan Tentang Penambangan Masyarakat Ramah Lingkungan Di Nagari Tambang, Kecamatan IV Jurai, Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan

The problems faced by the people of Nagari Tambang, IV Jurai District, Pesisir Selatan Regency are: the use of natural resources in the form of mining materials is not yet environmentally friendly, the mining system is still conventional due to limited capital to carry out mining with modern tools. The service aims to socialize approaches and provide assistance regarding environmentally friendly community mining in Nagari Tambang, IV Jurai District, Pesisir Selatan Regency. The approach is related to community treatment of ex-mining land and the socialization of environmentally friendly community mining assistance regarding the processing of separating gold from other rock minerals. The strategy carried out by the service team is to minimize the impact of damage due to gold mining. The results of community service are the implementation of socialization approaches and mentoring activities in the community.

Main objectives of the strategy, as well as motivations for the transformation of hard coal mining in Poland

Purpose: in the cognitive space, the article focuses on the issue of dynamically growing social awareness of the impact of hard coal on climate change - which determines the need to implement a strategy to abandon this raw material. The authors of the article also point out that in connection with this process - as the world strives for sustainable and more ecological development - the transformation of the hard coal mining sector becomes an inevitable challenge. Methodology: the theses presented in the article were verified using the following methods: literature review, critical analysis of literature, analysis and comparison of documents and an example of good practices. Resultat: properly managing the transformation of the hard coal mining sector is key to ensuring that it delivers long-term social and economic benefits - while minimizing the negative impact of the transformation on mining communities and workers in the hard coal mining sector. Therefore, a holistic approach is important in this space, taking into account the ecological, economic, political and social context of transformation. Originality: the transformation of mining is necessary due to the sustainable development goals, environmental protection and the fight against climate change. It is also a political challenge that requires well-thought-out investments, policies and regulations to minimize the negative socio-economic effects of the transformation and to use the development potential of the transformed areas in all their dimensions. Keywords: mining, strategy, transforming.

ARISE: Graph Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks via Substructure Awareness.

Recently, graph anomaly detection on attributed networks has attracted growing attention in data mining and machine learning communities. Apart from attribute anomalies, graph anomaly detection also aims at suspicious topological-abnormal nodes that exhibit collective anomalous behavior. Closely connected uncorrelated node groups form uncommonly dense substructures in the network. However, existing methods overlook that the topology anomaly detection performance can be improved by recognizing such a collective pattern. To this end, we propose a new graph anomaly detection framework on attributed networks via substructure awareness (ARISE). Unlike previous algorithms, we focus on the substructures in the graph to discern abnormalities. Specifically, we establish a region proposal module to discover high-density substructures in the network as suspicious regions. The average node-pair similarity can be regarded as the topology anomaly degree of nodes within substructures. Generally, the lower the similarity, the higher the probability that internal nodes are topology anomalies. To distill better embeddings of node attributes, we further introduce a graph contrastive learning scheme, which observes attribute anomalies in the meantime. In this way, ARISE can detect both topology and attribute anomalies. Ultimately, extensive experiments on benchmark datasets show that ARISE greatly improves detection performance (up to 7.30% AUC and 17.46% AUPRC gains) compared to state-of-the-art attributed networks anomaly detection (ANAD) algorithms.

Training of Infection Prevention and Control to Healthcare Workers of Mining Health Facilities: A Shared Responsibility for Improving Safety of Mining Communities

Training of Infection Prevention and Control to Healthcare Workers of Mining Health Facilities: A Shared Responsibility for Improving Safety of Mining Communities

Prevalence and determinants of evidence of silicosis and impaired lung function among small scale tanzanite miners and the peri-mining community in northern Tanzania.

Limited data among miners in Tanzania suggests prevalence of silicosis, obstructive lung disease and restrictive lung disease to be around 1.6%, 1.9% and 8.8% respectively. Our study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with silicosis and impaired lung function among tanzanite mining community in northern Tanzania. We conducted a cross-sectional study, involving 330 miners and 330 peri-mining community members in Mererani mines. Silicosis was defined based on study participants' history of exposure to mining dust and digital chest radiological findings with reference to the 2011 ILO classification of pneumoconiosis. Impaired lung function was determined by spirometry using American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society recommended system 3. Association between evidence of silicosis/impaired lung function and presumed risk factors were determined using binary logistic regression analyses. The study found that 99/330 (30.0%) of miners had silicosis. Total of 65 (9.8%) participants had impaired lung function, of whom 29 (4.4%) had Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 32 (4.8%) had restrictive lung disease and 4 (0.6%) had both obstructive and restrictive lung diseases. Unexpectedly, miners who have worked for more than 10years and those worked for 6 to 10 years had 64% (aOR 0.34, CI = 0.17-0.67, p = 0.002) and 48% (aOR 0.52, CI = 0.30-0.89, p = 0.018) lower odds of having silicosis respectively compared those worked for up to 5 years. Participants with more than 10 years of work duration had more than 3-times higher odds of impaired lung function compared to those who had worked for up to 5 years (aOR 3.11, CI = 1.53-6.34, p<0.002). We found a concerningly high prevalence of silicosis despite short durations of exposure to occupational silica dust. Immediate dust control measures including deployment of wet drilling, wearing of personal protective equipment and regular monitoring of dust exposure need to be enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Authority-Tanzania.

An Improved Algorithm for Extracting Frequent Gradual Patterns

Frequent gradual pattern extraction is an important problem in computer science widely studied by the data mining community. Such a pattern reflects a co-variation between attributes of a database. The applications of the extraction of the gradual patterns concern several fields, in particular, biology, finances, health and metrology. The algorithms for extracting these patterns are greedy in terms of memory and computational resources. This clearly poses the problem of improving their performance. This paper proposes a new approach for the extraction of gradual and frequent patterns based on the reduction of candidate generation and processing costs by exploiting frequent itemsets whose size is a power of two to generate all candidates. The analysis of the complexity, in terms of CPU time and memory usage, and the experiments show that the obtained algorithm outperforms the previous ones and confirms the interest of the proposed approach. It is sometimes at least 5 times faster than previous algorithms and requires at most half the memory.

A Comprehensive Radiological Survey of Groundwater Resources in Artisanal Mining Communities in the Eastern Region of Ghana: Water Quality vs. Mining Activities

In recent times, groundwater has emerged as an alternative drinking water source for populations in Ghana’s gold mining communities due to high pollution levels in surface water resources caused by artisanal miners. This study presents the findings on different radioactivity levels in groundwater, their sources, the characteristics of aquifers in the study area, and the impact of radionuclides on human health as a factor of water quality. The mean activity concentrations of radionuclides in groundwater samples were 0.1 ± 0.04 Bq/L for Ra-226, 0.36 ± 0.05 Bq/L for Ra-228, and 1.41 ± 0.10 Bq/L for K-40. The activity concentration of 228Ra exceeded the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline level of 0.1 Bq/L. The elevated levels of Ra-228 in groundwater were found to be of natural origin, emanating from the aquifer rocks in the study area. Groundwater resources near mining zones showed higher radioactivity levels. The corresponding committed effective dose from consuming such groundwater was estimated to be higher than the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) recommended value of 0.3 mSv/y for children and infants, indicating potential health risks.

Innovation of Mental Health Education Path in Colleges and Universities under the Perspective of “Internet +”

Abstract The traditional mental health education model has made it difficult to cope with the increasingly serious psychological problems of college students. In this paper, under the perspective of “Internet+”, based on the social network of college students, we constructed a propagation dynamics model of depression in colleges and universities and utilized the heterogeneous mean field to detect the propagation status of students’ depression. After calculating the comprehensive centrality degree of students with depression, the community mining of peer psychological adjustment is completed. The C-P similarity of students under the mental health perspective was defined by the ordering of the comprehensive centrality degree and the friend recommendation results were obtained by the distance measure of similarity. In the network of students without depressed mood, after a period of oscillation initially, the end state can be basically reached within 1000 steps, and the infected nodes reach 1000. When the depressed mood factor is small, such as S=0.02 and S=0.04, it has been able to prevent the transformation of depressed mood to the state of all 0, and the proportion occupied by positive and negative moods in the network is basically stable. Internet technology effectively improves the problem of identifying students with psychological abnormalities and implementing targeted mental health education.

Assessment of contamination and potential ecological risks of heavy metals in riverine sediments from gold mining and pristine areas in Ghana

This study explore the characteristics of heavy metal pollution, contamination levels, and potential ecological risks in riverine sediments found in both gold mining and pristine areas. Such investigations are vital for the ongoing monitoring and preservation of water bodies and overall ecosystem health. In total, 44 composite sediment samples were collected from seven pristine environments and four mining sites. These samples underwent preparation, digestion, and analysis for heavy metal content, utilizing the inductively coupled plasma emission mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). Various tools and models, including the geo-accumulation index, enrichment factor, and degree of contamination, were employed to assess the impact of pollution on the environment. Modified ecological risk index were also used to evaluate potential ecological risks. The average concentrations of heavy metals in pristine sites spanned from 0.01±0.01 (Cd) to 73,753.64 ± 388.15 mgkg−1 (Fe), while in mining sites, they ranged from 0.04±0.02 (Cd) to 56,394.25±400.66 mgkg−1 (Fe). Comparing these concentrations against the USEPA Ecological Screening Values, Mean Shales levels, and the Canadian ISQG, it became evident that Pb, Cd, Zn, Ni, Co, and Mn concentrations generally remained below the recommended guideline values in both pristine and mining areas. However, concentrations of Cr, As, Cu, and Hg exceeded the prescribed threshold limits, particularly in the mining regions. Through Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Geometrical Analysis for Interactive Aid (GAIA) modeling, two primary sources of heavy metals were identified: anthropogenic-related and geogenic-related. GAIA and PCA together explained 78.53 % and 79.40 % of the total variability in heavy metal concentrations, respectively. Overall, the pollution and ecological risk assessment indicated low to moderate contamination levels, with a notable exception of high arsenic contamination in the Nyam river. The findings of this study hold significance for assessing sediment conditions and river quality in mining communities within Ghana and globally. They also provide empirical data to recommend measures for mitigating water contamination in such communities.

The emotional geographies of a coal mining transition: a case study of Singleton, New South Wales, Australia

ABSTRACT The transition required to remove coal from the global energy mix will have major implications across coal producing regions. There is limited work, however, that explores how this transition is being received by communities with multi-generational connections to the industry. This paper explores understandings and responses to transition in the Australian community of Singleton. Located 145 km north of Sydney in the Upper Hunter Valley, the local area has been a site of coal mining activity since the 1850s – helping foster a strong connection between industry and place. Using an emotional geographies framework, we uncover various local feelings associated with the prospect of a future without coal. While these emotional responses can stem from the anticipated material losses of mines and jobs, they have also been found to stem from the mutually imbricated threats posed by a ‘hidden dimension of loss’. This dimension of loss positions mining as much more than an emotionless economic activity. Instead, it is uncovered as an activity – a tradition – that can define understandings of place. Whilst set in Australia, this study holds relevance for mining communities internationally faced with the disruption of existing ways of life, identities, and understandings of place as the energy transition unfolds.

Evaluasi dan Pengelolaan Lereng Bekas Tambang Breksi Andesit Dusun Siluk Kelurahan Selopamioro Kepanewon Imogiri Kabupaten Bantul Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

Siluk Area, Selopamioro Village, Imogiri District, Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, is one of the active community mining sites. These mining activities leave slopes that are not treated or repaired, so that they become a threat to soil and/or rock mass movements for the surrounding community. One of the former mining areas in Siluk hamlet is very close to residential areas. Therefore, it is necessary to study the stability and safety factors of the slope so that they can be the basis for determining the direction of ex-mining slope management.The methods used were literature studies, field surveys and mapping, and laboratory tests. The sampling method used was the purposive sampling method. Samples taken were used for testing physical properties (content weight, moisture content, porosity, and grain size), shear angle, and cohesion. The analysis methods used are the simplified Janbu method and the descriptive analysis method to evaluate the slope of the former mine. Based on calculations and testing, it is found that the three slopes are categorized as steep slopes with a safety factor value on the central and south-north slopes of 0.156, 0.620, and 0.367. Slope management carried out involves a change in slope geometry with the cut and fill method, planting vegetation in the form of Sengon trees, and planting land cover in the form of Vertiver grass

Exploring the Impact of Mining on Community Health and Health Service Delivery: Perceptions of Key Informants Involved in Gold Mining Communities in Burkina Faso.

Sub-Saharan Africa is rich in natural resources but also faces widespread poverty. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals brought increased attention to resource extraction projects, emphasizing their development potential in extraction regions. While mining companies are required to conduct environmental impact assessments, their effect on the project-affected communities' health mostly lacks systematic management, and their consideration of community perspectives is insufficient. Between March and May 2019, qualitative research was conducted at three industrial gold mines in Burkina Faso. Thirty-six participants, including community leaders, healthcare providers, and mining officials, were interviewed through key informant interviews about their perceptions on the impacts of mining operations on health, health determinants, and health service delivery. Disparities in perceptions were a key focus of the analysis. Mining officials reported mainly positive effects, while healthcare providers and community leaders described enhancing and adverse health impacts without clear trends observed regarding the extent of the impacts on health determinants. The perception of predominantly positive health impacts by mining officials represents a potential risk for insufficient acknowledgement of stakeholders' concerns and mining-related effects on community health in affected populations. Overall, this study enhances comprehension of the complex interplay between mining operations and health, emphasizing the need for comprehensive assessments, stakeholder involvement, and sustainable practices to mitigate negative impacts and promote the well-being of mining communities.

Evaluation of green mine construction level in Tibet based on entropy method and TOPSIS

Green mine construction is a systematic project involving the whole life cycle of mineral resources exploitation and utilization, representing the overall level of development potential. As an important strategic mineral resources reserve base in China, Tibet is rich in mineral resources. In order to calculate the level of green mine construction in Tibet, we obtained different data sources such as statistical yearbooks and mine construction information through field research and discussion. We establish the EMUCIMH evaluation system, select a total of 20 indexes from seven aspects(ecological mining environment, scientific mining method, efficient resource utilization, standardization of energy conservation and emission reduction, intelligent mine construction, standardization of enterprise management and harmonization of mining community),using the Entropy Weight TOPSIS Method to study the problems existing in the process of green mine construction, expecting to provide some references for government departments to make management decisions and for mining enterprises to improve green mine construction. The results show that among the 11 national green mines in Tibet, the construction status is uneven, and there are large differences in the mining methods, the comprehensive utilization of resources, and the ecological environment of mining areas. In contrast, The difference of standardization of enterprise management, intelligent mine construction and the harmonization of mining community is small. Among the specific indicators, in terms of exhaust emissions, mining community harmony and corporate culture are doing well, while they are relatively poor in terms of environmental management and monitoring, technological innovation, and intelligent mine, which need to be improved. Large and medium-sized mines, especially metal mines, the overall level of green mine construction is high, followed by small and medium-sized metal mines and individual Non-metal large mines, and mines with more historical problems faced more difficulties and challenges.

A repeated cross-sectional study of the association of community health worker intervention with the maternal continuum of care in rural Liberian communities

BackgroundThe maternal continuum of care (CoC) (antenatal care, facility-based delivery, postnatal care) is critical to maternal and neonatal health and reducing mortality, but completion in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries is often limited. We used repeated cross-sectional household surveys from a rural Liberian county to explore changes in rates of completion of all steps and no steps in the maternal CoC after implementation of the National Community Health Assistant Program (NCHAP), a community health worker (CHW) intervention designed to increase care uptake for families over five kilometers from a facility.MethodsWe analyzed repeated cross-sectional household surveys of women aged 18–49 served by NCHAP in Rivercess County, Liberia. We measured survey-weighted, before-to-after implementation difference in completion of all steps and no steps in the maternal CoC. We used multivariable regression to explore covariates associated with completion rates before and after NCHAP implementation.ResultsData from surveys conducted at three timepoints (2015, n = 354; 2018, n = 312; 2021, n = 302) were analyzed. A significant increase in completing the full maternal CoC (2015:23.6%, 2018:53.4%, change:29.7% points (pp), 95% confidence interval (CI) [21.0,38.4]) and a decrease in completing no steps in the CoC (2015:17.6%, 2018:4.0%, change: -12.4pp [-17.6, -7.2]) after implementation of NCHAP were observed from 2015 to 2018, with rates maintained from 2018 to 2021. Living farther from a facility was consistently associated with less care across the continuum. Following implementation, living in a motorbike accessible community was associated with completing the CoC while living in a mining community was negatively associated with omitting the CoC. Household wealth was associated with differences in rates pre-NCHAP but not post-NCHAP.ConclusionsFollowing NCHAP implementation, completion rate of the full maternal CoC in Rivercess County more than doubled while the rate of completing no steps in the continuum fell below 5%. These rates were sustained over time including during COVID-19 with reduced differences across wealth groups, although far distances remained a risk for less care. CHW programs providing active outreach to remote communities can be important tools for improving uptake of interventions and reducing risk of no formal care during and after pregnancy.

Perhitungan Sumberdaya Batugamping Di Dusun Gudang Garam Arso 4 Distrik Skanto Kabupaten Keerom

Keerom Regency is one of the areas that has the potential for Batugamping mineral resources which is quite potential, this is evidenced by the existence of several mining business actors who are carrying out mining activities in the area. Based on the geological map of the Jayapura sheet (Taritatu Sheet) the distribution of limestone potential is quite evenly distributed in the Keerom Regency area. The distribution of limestone potential in Keerom Regency is spread in the Arso 1, Arso 4, Arso 10, Arso 13 areas to Senggi. Based on the results of the initial survey, mining activities in Keerom Regency have not been managed properly, because some mining sites have carried out mining activities but do not yet have legality, namely a mining permit (SIP), do not have a good and correct mine processing plan based on the mining stages, there are still locations where limestone is not yet known distribution, volume and even the amount of resources and reserves. The potential for limestone is a good investment opportunity if it is developed into a community mine that can provide added value to the community. Therefore, it is necessary to have geological mapping activities and also the calculation of resource values. In this case, it concerns the quantity and quality of deposits to be able to provide information as a mineral database for the community as land owners and is also very useful for the Keerom Regency government. This research aims to determine the amount of limestone volume which can later be used as data base information during mining activities. The research also utilized the Surfer 11 application for the creation of topographic maps and to calculate the number of limestone volumes. The research method that will be carried out is the Cross Section Method which is a special method for types of rock minerals.

Hydrogeochemical characteristics and quality assessment of surface and groundwater around Adudu-Abuni lead-zinc minefields, Northcentral Nigeria

ABSTRACTThis study aims to evaluate the effects of contaminants on the surface and groundwater resources in the mining communities of Adudu-Abuni, Central-Nigeria. Thirty-one (31) water samples including 21 surface (streams) and 10 groundwater were analyzed for physicochemical parameters (major cations, anions, and heavy metals) using the APHA (2011) and (ICP-MS) standard methods. Physicochemical analysis showed that the concentration of heavy metal for both surface and groundwater of the area in the following order of abundance Fe>Pb>Zn>Cu>Cr>Cd>As and Fe>Zn>Pb>Cu>Cr>Cd>As, respectively. High concentrations of the heavy metals in the surface and groundwater are attributed to anthropogenic activities; improper channeling of mine effluents into the environments, these effluents reacted via oxidation and dissolution process, making solutions (contaminants) infiltrate into the aquifer system. Results showed for both surface (67%) and groundwater (70%) waterfall within the rock weathering dominance for both anions and cations, with few exceptions who fall into the precipitation dominance, suggesting that rock–water interface is the primary influencer for both surface and groundwater chemistry. This deduced that rock weathering and precipitations are the principal factors controlling the water chemistry in the study areas. WQI analysis for groundwater shows that the northern axis of the area depicts poor water quality while the southern regions are good for drinking. Whereas surface water source from the southern zones is unsuitable for drinking, while those in the northern region are good. This is attributed to the proximity of Pb-Zn mines to the southern region because streams within this zone serve as repositories for mine effluents.

Implications Of Illegal Community Mining For Economic Development In Bangka Regency, Indonesia

The Kepulauan Bangka Belitung Province, Indonesia, is renowned for its extensive history of tin mining, a pivotal component of the local economy. Notably, this mining encompasses operations conducted by both corporate entities and individual community members, shaping the region's socio-economic landscape. This research seeks to investigate the multifaceted implications of community-led tin mining activities in Bangka Belitung. Employing a qualitative and socio-legal approach, the study underscores its significance in the acquisition of high-quality data derived from site visits, comprehensive surveys, and interviews with the diverse local community, encompassing various subsistence groups and socio-economic backgrounds. Our findings indicate that individual community mining activities have indeed contributed positively to the economic growth of the Kepulauan Bangka Belitung Province, particularly in the Bangka Regency. However, they also manifest negative repercussions in terms of illegal mining, which adversely affects state revenue due to unregistered taxpayers. Furthermore, these activities hinder human resource development and highlight a deficiency in the supervision of reclamation efforts undertaken by artisanal mining operators. Therefore, the study emphasizes the imperative for government intervention, focusing on community mining permits to enforce reclamation regulations and ensure sustainable, responsible mining practices.