Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a blanket term for a type of subsistence mining involving a miner who may or may not be officially employed...

and most artisanal mining takes place elsewhere, where it is common for artisanal miners to trespass onto industrial sites to work. Artisanal miners at...

mining. Artisanal small-scale mining operations are labour-intensive mining because miners do not use machinery to extract the metals. Informal mining occurs...

contrast to an industrial process, such as in the phrase artisanal mining. Thus, "artisanal" is sometimes used in marketing and advertising as a buzz...

centuries, most volume of mining was done by large corporations. However, the value of gold has led to millions of small, artisanal miners in many parts of...

cement lids sealing off the mine shafts, there is evidence that some artisanal mining still goes on here. A United Nations inter-agency mission, led by the...

Mineral extraction in the country is done both via industrial mining and artisanal mining, and both methods of production have had profound impacts on...

electronics "occurred as warlords and armies in the eastern Congo converted artisanal mining operations ... into slave labour regimes to earn hard currency to finance...

techniques are still employed by artisanal mining operations in several parts of India, especially in Meghalaya. Rat-Hole Mining technique is a procedure of...

10,000 artisanal miners in Burundi, of whom about two thirds were mining gold. The other third were mining tin, tungsten, tantalum ores. Mining made up...

estimated 15,000 tons of tin, or 4% of global production. In early 2018 artisanal mining activity has stopped, and Alphamin Resources Corp., an exploration...

Labor in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM)" (PDF). responsiblemines.org. 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2018. "Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles...

contains two mines, the main Mutanda mine and the Shabara mine, where artisanal mining (digging by hand) takes place. The mine is owned by Glencore. Acquisition...

working in the mining and quarrying industries saw an 11 percent increase in revenues every year (in 2008). Under the SMMRP, artisanal mining is part of community...

fish stocks in the area. Both forestry operations and the earlier artisanal mining both removed ground cover and likely increased sediment content in...

80% from industrial copper mines, and the remaining 20% gathered by artisanal mining. The Katanga, or Shaba, copperbelt in the DRC is a belt about 70 kilometres...

Udachnaya Pipe - Russia 10. Escondida - Chile Artisanal mining – Independent, small-scale, subsistence mining Closure problem applied to open-pit mines for...

decades. Mining expanded in scope from artisanal mining to industrial mining at a mine in San Sebastián in the 1970s [citation needed]. Mining activity...

coastal mining. It operates in 35 countries with mining taking place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Canada. It also has an artisanal mining business...

can still be shot on sight. Chegga has since become a center of artisanal gold mining by Mauritanians and Malians using hand tools. "de Vries". Retrieved...

These initiatives are already taking place with major mining companies, artisanal and small-scale mining companies (ASM). Car manufacturers and battery manufacturer...

activities in this municipality are agriculture, livestock, fishing, artisanal mining, forestry exploitation and commerce. Within agriculture, coconut, sugar...

separated into two main types of mining: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) and large-scale public-private mining. Artisanal and small-scale operations...

deposits were largely unexplored. According to the Eritrean government, artisanal mining in 1998 collected 573.4 kilograms of gold, however the number of gold...

resulting in numerous accidents, including fatalities. Artisanal mining Freeminer Illegal mining "The Bootleg Coal Rebellion". Coal, Corn & Country. Archived...

1900s, but diamond mining continues. In 2013, India mined 37,515 carats of diamonds, from one industrial-scale mine and many artisanal mines; this was less...

pleading with the government to remove the artisanal miners from the concession. Small-scale artisanal mining of gold is another source of dangerous child...

Republic of Congo). "Much mining has been done in small artisanal mining operations, sometimes known as Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM). These small-scale...

the country are natural gas, petroleum, salt, and silver. Artisanal and small-scale mining accounted for 43% of Ghana's total gold production in 2018...

killing about 100 artisanal miners. MONUSCO visited the site of the disaster and advised local authorities to ban further artisanal mining in the area. MHI...