Pdf Smallscale Mining And Alluvial Gold Panning Within
Small scale mining and particularly alluvial panning of minerals is a relatively new informal economic activity which has been sweeping across the globe in the past two decades the haphazard nature of the activity and its intense dependence on water for the panning process and firewood for fuel has resulted in uncontrolled siltation of rivers and other water reservoirs as well as rampant