Formalizing Mongolia’s Artisanal Mining Sector

While large-scale mining operations often make headlines, as The Asia Foundation’s Bolormaa Purevjav recently wrote in this blog, there are an estimated 100,000 small-scale artisanal miners who work independently and make up nearly 20 percent of Mongolia’s rural workforce. However, due to perceptions around the negative impact that their mining activities have on the environment, they are marginalized from society, further preventing them from achieving full economic potential and, crucially, from developing more sustainable environmental practices.
http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2014/12/03/formalizing-mongolias-artisanal-mining-sector/