ASGM 101 A Primer on Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining The Minamata Convention on Mercury defines artisanal and small scale gold mining ASGM as gold mining conducted by individuals or small enterprises with limited capital investment and production Mercury is often used in ASGM to extract gold from ore or sediments
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Get Pricenegative impacts of unregulated artisanal and small scale mining Formalization of the sector should improve access to the financial technical and educational resources necessary to remove the barriers to the implementation of these cleaner methods and technologies for small scale gold mining The creation of small miners associations or
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Get Pricemultiple kinds of artisanal small medium and large scale mining may co exist together or in close proximity In 1999 a report published by the International Labour Organization described the complexities of interpreting the ASM sector in the following terms Small scale mining means different things to
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