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Nigeria seeks to regularise artisanal gold mining

Programme aims to incentivise small miners to sell legitimate buyers

By Samuel Okocha, in Abuja
30 small-scale miners were trapped in a mine site in Nigeria last year

30 small-scale miners were trapped in a mine site in Nigeria last year | Credits: NaijaNews

Nigeria is launching a national gold programme aimed at boosting foreign reserves and formalising artisanal mining, Dele Alake, the country's minister of solid minerals development has announced in Abuja,...

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