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Over 40m people work in artisanal mines, finds report

World Bank and Pact find alarming numbers of miners still dig up minerals by hand

 Courtesy World Bank and Delve

Courtesy World Bank and Delve

In the first-of-its-kind 96-page report, "2019 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector," researchers examined both the origins and impact of this type of mining's ‘global data gap' and how...

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