| Small-scale miners (SSM) otherwise known as artisanal miners as groups of people who may be in small groups but due to their poor financial status, depends on mining as a livelihood. These people mostly use basic rudimentary tools such as chisels, picks, sluices as well as pans for their operations which mostly involve the exploration of mineral deposits or defines the practice of small-scale mining as any mining operation that is of a single unit and has an annual production of about 50,000... | (Not translated) | Edit |