Effect of Knowledge toward the Behaviour of Gold Miners Environmentally Sound: A Case Study in Bombana Regency

Abstrak Gold is a mineral pursued by miners around the world. Wherever there is potential sounding gold by miners, then they instantly met by traditional gold miners either from outside, inside or around the mine area. With the discovery of gold deposits in Bombay, it invites much traditional gold miners to do mining there. The more traditional miners, then affect on environmental damage are more quickly. In order to minimize damage from traditional miners, it required an examination ofthe miners, particularly how the level of environmental knowledge miners toward the behaviour of environmental management at the mine location. The results showed that although the level of education ofthe miners is low, but their experience and behaviour towards environmental management are quite high. It is caused by the presence of other factors that they have such as experience, media or info, mature age, social, and culture