This article surveys fifty-two empirical studies on relationships between extractive industries
and poverty, addressing both poverty impacts and possible linkage mechanisms …

Governments, international agencies, NGOs, and academics focus their projects' objectives
on monitoring mercury pollution in Artisanal Gold Mining (AGM). Rarely do these monitoring …

This article contributes to the debate on the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining
(ASM)–low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing–in develo** …

In the face of rising graduate unemployment, an increasing number of graduates in Ghana
has joined the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. Hitherto, graduates were …

The consumption of cobalt has tripled globally over the last decade, largely driven by rising
demand for electronics and electric-battery vehicles. This fast-growing market has pressured …

Transitioning to a decarbonized and circular economy is paramount for climate change
mitigation and sustainable development. In this paper we assess the global production …

Among policy-makers and governments, there is a broad consensus that artisanal and small-
scale mining (ASM) needs to be 'formalized'–embodied in a standardized legal framework …

This article develops a critique of ongoing formalization efforts in the Artisanal and Small-
scale Mining (ASM) sector. By departing from erroneous assumptions about a …

This article critically evaluates existing causal explanations for the persistence of informality
in artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM). These explanations share a legalistic focus on …

In the 1990s, government authorities in Zimbabwe introduced internationally praised
policies to formalize the artisanal and small-scale mining sector, using a combination of …