“The most important non-farm activity in the developing world.”
Over 40 million people work as artisanal and small-scale miners in gruelling and dangerous conditions, hoping to make a few dollars per day.
The mining industry is broken.
Today, millions of local miners are forced to work illegally on their own land, while foreign companies take their minerals by the truckload.
We believe this is inequitable, unsustainable and fundamentally indefensible.
