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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Beyond mercury? ASGM and the shift to cyanide in Burkina Faso

 Technological innovation in ASGM does not only occur through voluntarist interventions aimed at promoting cleaner production, but also as a consequence of transformations in the political economy of resource extraction. In Burkina Faso, the diffusion of cyanide has determined a shift away from mercury-based processing techniques and reshaped the organization of production in artisanal mining sites. 

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