The impact of artisanal gold mining, ore processing and ...
2021-4-11 · Colombia has a long and rich history of gold mining, dating back to the pre-Colonial era (Brooks et al., 2016).Gold mining is an important economic driver in the impoverished rural regions in Colombia, with around 300,000 miners working in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector on a mainly subsistence basis, producing an estimated 54 metric
