Meutia Ami A, Bachriadi Dianto, Gafur Nurfitri Abdul
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, 457-4 Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan.
Research Center for Environmental and Clean Technology, National Research and Innovation Agency, Building 820 Geostech, South Tangerang 15341, Banten, Indonesia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Sep 17;20(18):6774. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20186774.
Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) activities, despite offering numerous economic incentives, inflict negative impacts on the environment and public health due to the use of mercury or cyanide. This study aims to compare three ASGM locations in Indonesia in terms of environmental impacts and potential health problems in the community. As part of this research, field surveys at three ASGM illegal locations with different conditions, observations, literature studies, and interviews with the community and stakeholders were conducted. At each of the survey sites, the potential threat to public health due to the use of mercury was determined to be high. Additionally, many of the environmental impacts detected were deemed to have reached a high-alert stage, in some cases even posing a level of extreme danger. Based on these results, it has become clear that a form of mining management which reduces the negative impacts on the surrounding environment and community health is needed. The suggestions put forward in this paper, including the call for greater control of ASGM, may also be applied in other developing countries which suffer from similar problems and conditions.
手工小规模金矿开采（ASGM）活动尽管带来了诸多经济激励，但由于使用汞或氰化物，对环境和公众健康造成了负面影响。本研究旨在比较印度尼西亚三个手工小规模金矿开采地点在环境影响和社区潜在健康问题方面的情况。作为这项研究的一部分，在三个条件不同的非法手工小规模金矿开采地点进行了实地调查、观察、文献研究，并与社区和利益相关者进行了访谈。在每个调查地点，使用汞对公众健康造成的潜在威胁被确定为很高。此外，检测到的许多环境影响被认为已达到高度警戒阶段，在某些情况下甚至构成极端危险级别。基于这些结果，显然需要一种能减少对周边环境和社区健康负面影响的采矿管理形式。本文提出的建议，包括呼吁加强对手工小规模金矿开采的管控，也可应用于其他存在类似问题和情况的发展中国家。
