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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19073955 Corpus ID: 247787284; Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A Narrative Literature Review @article{Meutia2022IndonesianAA, title={Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A Narrative Literature Review}, author={Ami Aminah Meutia and Royke Lumowa and Masayuki Sakakibara}, …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073This chapter presents a critical review of the existing literature of what has come to be known as artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). First, it provides an overview of the differential and often competing perspectives of what has come to define ASM.
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