Abstract
On completion of the four year tenure (2011-2014) of the projects on "The impact of mining and mineral processing on the environment and human health in Africa" (IGCP/UNESCO/SIDA Project 594) and "Environmental health impacts of major and abandoned mines in Sub-Saharan Africa" (IGCP/UNESCO/SIDA/MUT Project 606) a "Joint Closing Workshop" was organised at Prague, Capital City of the Czech Republic, whose Geological Survey has been the home of IGCP/UNESCO/SIDA Project 594 since its inception. The theme for the Joint Closing Workshop was: "Addressing Environmental and Health Impacts of Active and Abandoned Mines in Sub-Saharan Africa".
The Joint Closing Workshop was organized in order to: (i) optimise the synergy resulting from the consanguineous nature of the two projects' mandates, (ii) consolidate research outputs that emerged out of them, and (iii) collate, synthesize and put in summary form, the vast array of contributions from the various research groups working under the ambit of these two projects (594 and 606).