He noted that Nigeria does not have a well-developed large-scale gold mining sector and artisanal and small-scale miners carry out the majority of the gold mining in the country.
“As a result, preliminary inventory of mercury releases in Nigeria was carried out by the Federal Ministry of Environment in 2012 using the UNEP Toolkits for identification and qualification of mercury releases and level 1 showed that ASGM processing in Nigeria is more than significant,” he added.
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