


MINING - West Africa's artisanal gold mining sector: An overlooked
Nevada will continue to be the main place for gold development in the USA, where two world's largest companies, Newmont and Barrick, have large-scale projects — Turquoise Ridge mine and Goldrush, respectively. The South African gold mining sector saw a downturn to 2.9 million ounces in 2020 as compared to 3.1 million ounces in the previous year.Most recent research on mining sector policy reform in West Africa has focused on the potential of large-scale multinational mining companies to transform developing economies. There has been comparatively less analysis of the economic impact of mining activities carried out informally and at a micro-scale. The artisanal and small-scale gold …
