Speaker
Dr
Mohamed Eisa
(Northern Border University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Description
Artisanal mining is a growing segment of the mining industry in certain parts of the world. Workers are often not equipped with protective safety gear and are exposed to mining pollutants that can hurt the health and well-being of workers. As occupational biomonitoring studies within the mining industry of countries such as Sudan are limited, this study aimed to explore the utility of a multi-technique approach to biomonitor human tissue retrieved from artisanal gold miners, i.e. hair, for the presence of toxic metals. Gold artisanal miners from the region in Sudan voluntarily submitted hair samples for the study that were screened using different elemental screening techniques including PIGE, PIXE, RBS using a tandetron accelerator.
Primary author
Dr
Mohamed Eisa
(Northern Border University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Co-authors
Dr
Christopher Mtshali
(iThemba LABS, South Africa)
Dr
Karen J. Cloete
(iThemba LABS, South Africa)
Prof.
Malik Maaza
(iThemba LABS, South Africa)
