The Covid-19 pandemic has underpinned the need for action with regard to artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and provides the opportunity to enhance and scale up work already being done in this space, participants in a webinar hosted by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) have said. During the webinar, on June 11, LBMA CTO Neil Harby indicated that 83% of the world’s mining workforce relied on ASM for their livelihood, which equates to 40.5-million people.
