I am also interested in mining activities in Mozambique for an
environmental health research project looking into the effects of poorly
regulated mining on health.
I think this initiative can be used to generate interesting data to
understand the impact of mining activities in general.


*Warm Regards*


*Claudios Hakuna*

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On 22 February 2018 at 11:29, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Joost,
>
> This thread looks interacting. Also had issues mapping some legal mining
> sites in Ghana recently. Looking forward to working on and seeing a
> documentation on this as well.
>
> Best,
>
> - Enock
>
> 2018-02-22 7:08 GMT+00:00 joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Anders,
>> Thanks for the tips and outreach. I will follow up with you.
>>
>> Chad,
>> Thanks for the tip, looks interesting!
>>
>> Martin, Claire,
>> I go to (or help organize) most of the mapathons at IPIS :)
>> The volunteer organisation I'm talking to now has a different focus,
>> though I do see them potentially working together later.
>>
>> 2018-02-21 20:48 GMT+01:00 Chad Blevins <cblev...@usaid.gov>:
>>
>>> Hi Joost,
>>>
>>> I wanted to flag the MAAP project <http://maaproject.org/en/>, that
>>> actively monitors deforestation in the Amazon.  Many reports focus on
>>> illegal mining <http://maaproject.org/en/?s=mining>.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chad
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Anders Pedersen <
>>> apeder...@resourcegovernance.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Joost, Russell, all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) we track, collect and
>>>> structure data on mining contracts (resourcecontracts.org) and
>>>> projects (resourceprojects.org). We are also interested in improving
>>>> the public domain access to accurate lat/longs on mines (happy to discuss
>>>> further) and would also be interested in providing input on OSM tagging if
>>>> useful.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime one relatively rich public domain dataset on mine
>>>> locations in Africa is this from the World Bank:
>>>> https://energydata.info/dataset/africa-powermining-projects-database
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Anders
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schou...@gmail.com]
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:41 AM
>>>> *To:* Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>
>>>> *Cc:* HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] mapping mines
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for that lack of clarity! They are working on the impacts of
>>>> industrial scale (usually foreign owned) resource mining on local
>>>> communities.
>>>>
>>>> The basic tagging is there, but tags like tailings (apparently that's a
>>>> word especially meant for mine waste) are undocumented and we had a hard
>>>> time finding a proper tag for end of cycle operations (we used a lifecycle
>>>> prefix for now, but that doesn't seem entirely fitting)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Op 21 feb. 2018 3:02 a.m. schreef <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Joost,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean mines, like landmines, or mining for gold kind of mine?  I
>>>> know CartONG where doing de-mining (landmine kind) Mapswipe projects if
>>>> that’s the kind you’re talking.  Don’t know of anyone mapping mining
>>>> operations for resources kind of mining.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> =Russ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schou...@gmail.com]
>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:41 AM
>>>> *To:* HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org>
>>>> *Subject:* [HOT] mapping mines
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was just in contact with an organisation that might be interested in
>>>> mapping mines in the South in OSM, particularly in conflict areas. Are
>>>> there any exisiting efforts I should be aware of?
>>>>
>>>> We were a bit frustrated by the lack of depth of the (documented)
>>>> tagging, it would be interesting to get some experts on the subject to look
>>>> at how we can improve this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
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>>>>
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