The Rupa Gold mine of Karamoja, Uganda is an artisanal (informal) mine located approximately 10 km north of Moroto Town in Uganda’s Karamoja region. After years of instability caused by inter-clan cattle raiding and a decade-long military disarmament campaign in Karamoja, many people in the region have been finding alternatives to their traditional semi-nomadic pastoralist lifestyles. One such alternative is mining.[1]
Typically male, miners use rudimentary tools to dig holes reaching up to 10 m underground. The miners then spend up to ten hours a day digging earth from tunnels. The earth is then passed to the surface in homemade containers where it is washed and sieved.[2]
Gold extracted at Rupa is bought on-site by dealers from other regions of Uganda and neighbouring Kenya. It is then transferred to either Uganda’s capital, Kampala, or Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, for resale. In early April 2011, the local price paid for 0.1 grams of gold was around 7000 Ugandan shillings, equivalent to around 2.5 US dollars. Generally, miners say that they extract between 0.05 and 0.1 grams (known locally as a “point”) each day.[1]
This local price level was barely half the price level on international commodity markets. In early April 2011, gold was trading at $1,476 per troy ounce, equivalent to $47.45 per gram, or $4.75 per point. The differential between the local and international price reflects the costs involved in transporting output from mines and the profit margins taken by local, regional and global intermediaries. In the absence of official data, estimating the size of the gold deposits at Rupa remains difficult, but local mining officials have said that as many as 10,000 people now depend on the mine for their incomes.[1]
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adoption of a gold standard put pressure on other countries to follow suit. Beginning in 1515, silver coins were minted at the silver mines at Joachimsthal...
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be related to "something provided with an image, a coin," from Sanskrit rūpa "shape, likeness, image." The word Rupee was adopted by Sher Shah Suri, a...
State Mewar Residency Rajputana Hooja, Rima (2006). A history of Rajasthan. Rupa and Company. p. 452. ISBN 9788129115010. As a consequence of Sanga's exploits...
the city as having walls of pure gold. Both the temple and the entire city are often eulogised as being made of gold and the temple as heaven. The temple...
July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013. "The Race of My Life: An Autobiography". Rupa Publications. Archived from the original on 12 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July...
chains, inscribed gold sheets, gold plaques decorated with repoussé images of Hindu deities. In 1989, a laborer working in a sand mine at the mouth of Lumbang...
The term is from rūpya, a Sanskrit term for silver coin, from Sanskrit rūpa, beautiful form. The imperial taka was officially introduced by the monetary...
The Indian Railways Strike of 1974: A study of power and organised labour. Rupa & Co. "Trudeau Regime Falls, 137 to 123, on budget vote". Los Angeles Times...
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to win gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam Nikki Pradhan Pushpa Pradhan Masira Surin Sumrai Tete Manohar Topno Lovely Choubey Rupa Rani Tirkey...
here, not thou: speak thou where the assembly meets. Thou shalt be mine and only mine, and never mention other dames. If thou art far away beyond the rivers...
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the inhabitants using black bows; ru-thogs [Rutog] of the east and the Gold-mine of Hgog [possibly Thok Jalung]; nearer this way Lde-mchog-dkar-po [Demchok...
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on October 19, 2020. Retrieved December 14, 2020. "From Bengal to boogie: Rupa Biswas, India's rediscovered disco diva". TheGuardian.com. June 21, 2019...
physical and mental processes, anmely form (or material image, impression) (rupa), sensations (or feelings, received from form) (vedana), perceptions (samjna)...
1997, pp. 112–113, 118–119. Ray 1999, p. 375. M. Falk (1943, Nama-rupa and Dharma-rupa Walshe 1995, pp. 223, 226. Choong 1999, p. 21. Harvey 1989, p. 82...
her belt of seas, together with all her islands and all her precious mines of gold and gems. Keeping before him the duties of the Kshatriya order, as also...
Bikram; Oriental Bird Club (2006). Atlas of the birds of Delhi and Haryana. Rupa & Co. p. 352. ISBN 81-291-0954-9. Retrieved 11 July 2012. Sarkar, Jadunath...
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