Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Africa
ASM Operations vs. Large-Scale Mining Operations in Africa. Compared to large scale mining, artisanal and small-scale mining employs more people, providing an important livelihood and source of income to millions of vulnerable families in rural areas.
The current state of artisanal and small-scale mining in …
Without exception, the firms that have controlled the sector have been large-scale, mostly foreign – albeit with periods of national ownership – had access to huge capital outlays, and have focused on copper mining. Relatively less is known about Zambia's Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM) sector.
2020 State of the Artisanal and Small- Scale Mining Sector
The 2020 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector report is a collaboration between the World Bank's Extractives Global Programmatic Support …
Artisanal mining: the struggle to clean up a murky industry
Small-scale miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo are risking their lives to source a metal critical for the energy transition
Issue Brief: Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining: USAID Activities
This Issue Brief outlines the relationship between artisanal and small-scale mining and development, describes USAID's programs, highlights illustrative best practices, and shares key resources.
ASMAK
2023, the Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Association of Kenya (ASMAK) is a pioneering, non-profit, and non-political organization dedicated to elevating artisanal and small-scale mining across the nation.
Beaming the Light on a Hidden Sector: Artisanal and Small-scale Mining …
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM), as a largely informal poverty-driven activity, can be environmentally damaging often posing serious health and safety consequences for workers and surrounding communities, with little economic benefit.
2020 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector
The 2020 Report builds on the 2019 State of the ASM Sector Report to close the 'global data gap' facing the artisanal and small-scale mining sector. Collectively, ASM makes …
2023 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector
The 2023 state of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector focuses on the intersection of ASM and sustainable development goal 5 (SDG 5) - achieve gender .
Ending the toxic trail of small-scale gold mining
In a practice that dates back 3,000 years, many small-scale mines add mercury to gold ores to create an amalgam, which is then heated to evaporate the mercury, leaving only gold. Photo Credit: UNEP/Veejay Villafranca. Artisanal and small-scale mining emits over 2,000 tonnes of mercury per year. This includes emissions to air from heating ...
The Large Footprint of Small-Scale Mining in Ghana
The team further classified mining as large-scale industrial or small-scale artisanal by looking at elevation data and the texture of the landscape. Industrial mines have larger elevation changes since they dig deeper into the surface.
Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) takes place under extreme conditions with a lack of occupational health and safety. As the demand for metals is increasing due in part to their extensive use in 'green technologies' for climate change mitigation, the negative environmental and occupational consequences of mining …
Supporting Progress in Brazil's Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is economically and culturally rooted in Brazil, dating back to the 17th century. Today, the sector provides livelihoods for more than 450,000 traditional ASM miners, known as garimpeiros in Brazil, and their communities.. Gold mining makes up a large part of the country's ASM sector, with new …
Artisanal miners: A hidden but critical force in the global …
While artisanal mining faces challenges related to the environment, human rights, health and safety and more, small-scale miners are in fact a vital force in their communities as well as in the global economy.
Artisanal and small-scale mining and the Sustainable …
This paper explains how formalizing and supporting artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low-tech, labor-intensive mineral processing and extraction – …
Artisanal & Small Scale Gold Mining | World Gold Council
We support the responsible mining and trading of gold from all legitimate sources including artisanal gold mining. Learn about small-scale gold mining.
Modernizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
A pivotal distinction emerges between artisanal mining and small-scale mining, encapsulating a spectrum of operational scales, methodologies, and overarching objectives.
Shining a light on a hidden sector
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood for over 40 million people in developing countries, particularly for those living in remote, rural areas, according to the recent 2019 State of the …
Artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania and health …
Constructing on this description, the World Bank's Communities, artisanal and small-scale mining initiative explains the social and economic consequence of artisanal and small-scale mining effort as "essentially a poverty-focused activity, usually done in the remote area of the country characterized with poor residents by mostly …
State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector …
Delve is an initiative to build a global platform for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) data. Its vision is a world in which ASM is recognized as an important contributor to global development.
Global Trends in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A …
Global Trends in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A review of key numbers and issues. IGF and IIED recently launched this report highlighting how rising …
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a complex and diversified sector across much of the developing world. The guidance outlines a step-by-step process includes measures to ensure effective, inclusive …
Better Working Conditions Can Improve Safety and …
The World Bank's Extractives Global Programmatic Support (EGPS) Multi-Donor Trust Fund established an emergency response for artisanal and small-scale …
The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in …
Areas identified as gold mining in the land cover classification model were further differentiated into two categories: large-scale, industrial mining and small-scale, artisanal mining. Industrial mining operations within the study period (2005–2019) were assumed to have a significant change in elevation because of the nature of the mining ...
Better Working Conditions Can Improve Safety and …
The report shows that 40 years ago, the world's large-scale mining industry was just as unsafe as artisanal and small-scale mining. However, today, large-scale mining is one of the world's most safety conscious industries.
Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining – Ministry of Solid Minerals …
The Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) Department is one of the departments in the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development that was created during the mining sector reform in 2006. The Department through appropriate policy formulation, implementation and monitoring; organizes, supports, regulates and promotes artisanal and small-scale ...
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Ghana – …
Note that at this time gold was produced by local miners using traditional mining techniques that will in todays's terminology be referred to as artisanal and small-scale Mining (ASM). 2 Thomas Bowdich, a British envoy, was one of the first Europeans to venture into the interior of Africa's fabled Gold Coast, in 1817.
Special Geologic Studies: Artisanal and small-scale mining …
This project focuses on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) of minerals and gemstones globally and the illegal mining and transport of these natural resources. Project scientists employ field mapping, geomorphological techniques, and remote sensing to map, monitor, and evaluate mineral deposits and ASM activities in …
How Brazil is taking the fight to destructive illegal mining
Source: Mapbiomas. Small-scale artisanal mining for gold and other minerals, known as garimpo, is often unauthorised and nearly doubled in Brazil's …