Artisanal mining
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artisanal-mining-189-17357972
title:
Artisanal mining
text:
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 by a mining company but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand. While there is no completely coherent definition for ASM, artisanal mining generally includes miners who are not officially employed by a mining company and use their own resources to mine. As such, they are part of an informal economy. ASM also
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Independent, small-scale, subsistence mining
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisanal_mining
date created:
2010-02-21T19:04:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:59:35Z
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