Africa’s Artisanal Gold Rush Is Becoming Too Big for Governments to Ignore

 Much of the country’s artisanal gold mining also still depends on mercury, a toxic metal widely used to extract gold. Since November 2024, the planetGOLD initiative — funded by the Global Environment Facility and implemented by the United Nations Environment Program — has worked with more than 11,000 miners in Zambia to reduce mercury use and support formalization efforts.

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