How you start matters: A comparison of Gold Fields' Tarkwa and Damang Mines and their divergent relationships with local small-scale miners in Ghana
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2013.03.006
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Small-scale mining; ASM; Ghana; Social license to operate; Mining; Large-scale mining;All these keywords.
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