How Blockchain can improve Artisanal Mining
The Current Value Chain is fundamentally flawed In the current system, mineral supply chains are complex and opaque. Their unnecessarily long and complex nature, due to many middlemen, often leaves end consumers confused and unclear as to where their minerals have originated from. The lack of traceability in the current value chains is preventing the […]
The Role of Government in Artisanal Mining
Why do Governments want to Reform? Governments in mineral-producing nations are committed to reforming the ASM sector due to how fundamental they are to their nation’s economy. In DRC, the mining industry provided over $1.5bn in public revenue, tenfold what oil & gas provided. However, this is a fraction of the industry’s true potential. To […]
