Artisanal and small-scale mining. Uncovering data to help formalise artisanal and small-scale mining. In many resource-rich developing countries, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides a livelihood for millions of people, representing a major source of economic development.

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) produces approximately 12-24% of the world's cobalt used in electric vehicle batteries, 20% of the world's gold and 25% of tin and 26% of tantalum (found in smartphones and laptops).

Story Highlights. The World Bank supported a unique report on artisanal and small-scale mining. This vital sector employs over 40 million people globally – with 10 million living in Sub-Saharan Africa. Going forward, a new platform for artisanal and small-scale mining data will compile and analyze diverse sources of data from all corners of ...

An artisanal miner or small-scale miner (ASM) is a subsistence miner who is not officially employed by a mining company, but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand.

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is primitive with health problems determined by occupational, environmental, and social settings. ASM involves 80 + countries and valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, precious stones, tantalum, tin, tungsten, and commodities.

Artisanal and small-scale mining, or ASM, is a largely informal economic sector that includes workers around the world who use basic tools to extract from the earth everything from gold and gemstones to vital metals such as cobalt, tin, tungsten and tantalum. ASM is important for several reasons.

In many countries, small-scale gold mining is a terrain for heightened conflict, be it material or spiritual. Rosen (2020) shows how in Ghana state military personnel clash with small-scale miners who claim ancestral and national rights to gold in the face of a large-scale gold mining industry they feel impoverishes, displaces and …