The government stopped local authorities from granting artisanal mining permits to foreign nationals and ordered the seizure of any equipment used to extract gold at small-scale mines. The move co ...

22, 2020. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File) BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali said on Wednesday it was suspending licenses for foreign artisanal gold mining companies after a series of fatal accidents in the West ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali said on Wednesday it was suspending licenses for foreign artisanal gold mining companies after a ...

Mali said on Wednesday it was suspending licenses for foreign artisanal gold mining companies after a series of fatal accidents in the West African country, one of Africa’s top three gold producers.

A recent article published in the Environmental Research Letters highlighted how artisanal gold mining had rapidly destroyed peatlands ... tracking, classification, medical image analysis, cancer cell ...