Pub Date : 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101842
Neil Howard
Fierce debates rage over ‘what to do’ about child labour in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Long decried as a site of exploitation, ASM is demonised by much of the international child protection architecture as an archaic relic in need of eradication. By contrast, working children’s movements, civil society advocates, and sympathetic academics all argue that the picture is more complex, that child work, including in ASM, can bring many benefits, and thus that regulation is better than repression. To this more progressive, yet still reformist, strand of argument has recently been added a more radical alternative, calling for massive redistribution to address ‘the root causes of the root causes’. This paper reviews the field of competing representations of and proposed responses to child labour in ASM. It argues that although the repressive strand remains hegemonic, the reformist is gaining ground, while the radical is pointing in increasingly progressive political directions. The paper marks, in 2025, not only the point at which all child work in ASM should have been eradicated, according to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, but also the 20th anniversary of the International Labour Organisation’s seminal take on the issue, A Load Too Heavy.
关于如何处理手工和小规模采矿（ASM）中的童工问题，人们展开了激烈的辩论。ASM长期以来被谴责为剥削的场所，被许多国际儿童保护机构妖魔化，被视为需要根除的古老遗迹。相比之下，童工运动、民间社会倡导者和富有同情心的学者们都认为，情况要复杂得多，童工工作，包括ASM，可以带来许多好处，因此监管比镇压要好。对于这种更进步，但仍然是改革派的观点，最近又增加了一个更激进的选择，呼吁进行大规模的再分配，以解决“根本原因的根本原因”。本文回顾了ASM中童工的竞争代表和提出的回应。该书认为，尽管压制派仍然占据主导地位，但改革派正在得势，而激进派则指向日益进步的政治方向。根据联合国（un）的可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals）， 2025年不仅标志着亚洲地区所有童工都应该被根除，而且标志着国际劳工组织（ilo）对这一问题的开创性研究《负担太重》（A Load Too Heavy）发表20周年。
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Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101840
Muhammad Zaka Emad , Arshad Raza , Mohamed Mahmoud , Muhammad Shahzad Kamal , Daniyal Abbasi
The advancement in technology such as renewable energy systems, satellite missions, and others, has led to the exploration of new raw materials termed as critical minerals. The energy transition in particularly the development and production of electric vehicles, wind turbines, and semiconductors needs critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel, but their supply chain is currently present in the most vulnerable locations, posing a threat to the world markets. For instance, over 70 % of cobalt originates in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while China dominates processing 80 % of critical minerals. This article takes into account global distribution, supply risk, and eco-friendly extraction of critical minerals, with special emphasis on the unutilized potential of the Arabian Peninsula. Arabian Shield (a Precambrian geological formation extending across Saudi Arabia and Oman) is host to significant deposits of phosphates, copper, gold, and critical minerals. Supported by strategic visions like Saudi Vision 2030, the area is poised to diversify the hydrocarbon-driven economy through sustainable mineral development. This article reviews the role of critical minerals in energy transition with a focus on cleaner methods, and concerns related to their global supply chains. Critical mineral potential of the Arabian Peninsula is also reviewed about the next-generation. Mineral potential of the Arabian Peninsula based on next-generation exploration technologies like AI and remote sensing. Examples of successful sustainable mining operations (e.g., Ma'aden phosphate projects) and policy measures for reducing environmental and social impacts. Through integrating geology, economics, and logistics, this review highlights the Arabian Peninsula's capacity to secure global mineral supply chains in a manner that is in line with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101828
Tara Rava Zolnikov , Charles Midega , Frances Furio , Tanya Clark , Aidan Jackson , Nathalia Rodrigues , Rhett-Lawson Mohajer
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining continues to grow worldwide and is linked to gendered labor divisions, limited economic opportunities, and exposure to unsafe working conditions. Women and men often hold different roles in mining, and these gendered roles shape women’s safety, health, and economic opportunities. In 2025, a descriptive phenomenological qualitative study was conducted in mining zones in western Kenya. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 64 miners, including 39 women and 25 men. Both women and men contribute to household earnings, yet the findings show clear gendered dynamics around women’s income, their position in the household, and the implications of the roles they hold for power, safety, and income. Women primarily performed processing tasks such as drying, crushing, and washing ore, which exposed them to greater mercury risks and provided lower economic returns. These patterns also influenced household relationships and reinforced cultural expectations about gender. Persistent gender norms continue to shape mining work, limit women’s opportunities, and concentrate them in roles that offer fewer economic gains and greater vulnerability. These gendered roles limit women’s earning potential, constrain decision-making power, and place them in positions with greater physical strain and exposure to hazardous tasks.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-11DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101836
Phil Johnstone , Anabel Marín
An accelerating clean energy and digital “twin transition” is widely identified as the primary driver of rising critical minerals extraction. Policy institutions and academic analyses highlight a range of complex challenges for sustainable development that follow from this. Far less attention is paid to another core driver: accelerating military mobilisation and war-related technological change. This perspective paper shifts attention to the dynamics of military demand for minerals and critically examines the implications for sustainable development. We trace the long-standing role of military demand in shaping critical minerals extraction and the emergence of persistent sustainability challenges. We outline how military demand continues to shape critical minerals classifications, priorities, extraction volumes and policy approaches – an influence that has strengthened recently yet is rarely considered in prominent forecasts and concerns around demand and supply. We then consider military demand in the context of prominent social, economic and environmental sustainability concerns in extractive industries today. While increased military influence may spur some innovation, it is likely to exacerbate persistent developmental and environmental problems in mining, and potentially undermine current frameworks and initiatives for sustainable development.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101824
Simon Granovsky-Larsen , Rebecca Jane Hall
Gender-based and sexual violence permeates resource extraction. This violence operates in many forms and spheres, both public and private. Focusing on a case of overt, public violence, we ask, what is productive about gender-based and sexual violence for mining corporations? In the context of commitments to social responsibility and the gender impacts of mining, what can explain corporate engagement with acts of extreme violence that publicly undermine these commitments? We respond by exploring the case of the 2007 attack on Maya Q’eqchi’ women near the Fénix nickel mine in Guatemala. Following an attack allegedly involving gang rape by public-private armed forces, eleven survivors mobilized to demand justice in the landmark Caal v. Hudbay legal case in Canada. Our analysis offers a reading of the internal communications of mining executives and their affiliates, which were released through the case. Bringing these data in conversation with critical theories of race, gender and extraction, we argue that the mining company benefitted not only from the gendered suppression and discipline of resistance, but also from the reinforcement of a racialized view of Guatemala as violent—a stereotype that allows Canadian corporate executives to continue to project their goodness, regardless of the substance of their actions.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101823
Lindani Mhlanga
Mining operations in rural South Africa have long caused conflicts between powerful corporations and land-insecure Indigenous communities. Despite legislative protections under the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act (IPILRA), Indigenous communities remain vulnerable due to foreign investment strategies that prioritise economic interests. This article explores the broader implications of mining activities, particularly after mine closures, on Indigenous land rights. By analysing the South African Constitution, IPILRA, and mining laws, this article argues that compensation for Indigenous communities must encompass not only economic and environmental losses but also cultural, spiritual, and social impacts. The disaggregation of Indigenous land rights is essential for recognising these non-tangible losses as constitutional property, ensuring that Indigenous communities are fully compensated for the totality of their deprivations.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101826
Michael Hitch , Jiajie Li , Duoxueer Jia
Copper sits at the centre of the global transition toward electrification, digitalization, and low-carbon infrastructure. Yet traditional linear models of extraction, fabrication, consumption, and disposal are increasingly misaligned with intensifying demand trajectories and escalating environmental constraints. Declining ore grades, rising energy intensity, and the geopolitical concentration of supply exacerbate systemic vulnerabilities, while the long residence times of copper in infrastructure delay the return of secondary material to productive circulation. In response, this paper advances an integrated, systems-scale framework—Metals as a Service (MaaS)—that reconceptualizes copper as a long-lived, stewarded industrial asset rather than a consumable input. Drawing on updated material-flow research, circular-economy policy developments, and emerging digital infrastructures for traceability, this paper demonstrates how MaaS restructures incentives, enhances recovery efficiency, reduces primary extraction, and stabilizes supply amid accelerating demand.
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This study examines how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are prioritised and integrated within South Africa’s mining sector through an analysis of sustainability and integrated reports from the top 13 Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed mining companies between 2020 and 2023. Using the SDG Mapper, a text-mining tool that quantifies direct and indirect references to all 17 SDGs, the research identifies focus areas and reporting gaps. Findings show a steady rise in SDG references over time, with SDG 13 (climate action), SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production), and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) dominating corporate disclosures. SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) also features strongly, reflecting responses to climate risks and regulatory pressure through emissions reduction and renewable energy adoption. In contrast, SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) and SDG 15 (life on land) have only recently gained traction, exposing uneven sustainability practices. SDG 3 (good health and well-being) receives moderate attention despite its prominence in global mining frameworks. The study highlights the need for a more balanced, integrated approach that addresses environmental, social, and governance dimensions, and advocates systems thinking to strengthen sustainable mining in South Africa and other emerging economies.
{"title":"The contribution of South African mining companies to the sustainable development goals: A knowledge synthesis from text mining","authors":"Lorren K Haywood , Suzanna HH Oelofse , Sumaya Khan , Jodi Pelders , Busi Maphalala","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are prioritised and integrated within South Africa’s mining sector through an analysis of sustainability and integrated reports from the top 13 Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed mining companies between 2020 and 2023. Using the SDG Mapper, a text-mining tool that quantifies direct and indirect references to all 17 SDGs, the research identifies focus areas and reporting gaps. Findings show a steady rise in SDG references over time, with SDG 13 (climate action), SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production), and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) dominating corporate disclosures. SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) also features strongly, reflecting responses to climate risks and regulatory pressure through emissions reduction and renewable energy adoption. In contrast, SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) and SDG 15 (life on land) have only recently gained traction, exposing uneven sustainability practices. SDG 3 (good health and well-being) receives moderate attention despite its prominence in global mining frameworks. The study highlights the need for a more balanced, integrated approach that addresses environmental, social, and governance dimensions, and advocates systems thinking to strengthen sustainable mining in South Africa and other emerging economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 101827"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101822
George M. Bob-Milliar , Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum
{"title":"Corrigendum to 'State incapacitation for partisan political interest: Assessing government’s responses to the neogalamsey crisis in Ghana'","authors":"George M. Bob-Milliar , Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101822","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 101822"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-02DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101825
William N. Holden
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