Mining cooperative
A mining cooperative is an association of persons that operates a mine. Mining cooperatives have been promoted as means to combat unemployment and provide poverty alleviation.[1][2] The formation of mining cooperates is recommended by the International Labour Organization as a step to eliminate child labour in artisanal mining.[3] Mining cooperatives have been found to often have problems addressing environmental concerns due to low levels of knowledge among members, plausible impunity, and little development in local communities.[2]
In Bolivia and Chile
[edit]In Bolivia, the spread of mining cooperatives dates to the 1930s[1] while in Chile, mining cooperatives became common in the late 1960s and early 1970s when a series of mines were reorganized as worker's cooperatives, including Dulcinea, El Morado, and some mines in Andacollo.[4] In Bolivia, about 60,000 miners are organized into cooperatives.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Marston, Andrea. "BOLIVIA: Underground Cooperatives". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- 1 2 Alves, Wellington; Ferreira, Paula; Araújo, Madalena (2019). "Mining co-operatives: A model to establish a network for sustainability". Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management. 7 (1): 51–63.
- ↑ Developing and regularising cooperatives in Mali’s artisanal gold mining sector (Report). International Labour Organization. 2024-05-01. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ Venegas Valdebenito, Hernán (2012). "El cooperativismo minero como alternativa de organización social y económica en los años de la revolución. Atacama 1964-1973". Tiempo Histórico (in Spanish). 5: 103–127.
