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Small-scale miners to get licences in new plan to streamline sector

Workers at an informal gold mining site. County licensing committees will oversee the issuance of permits to small-scale miners. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

The Government plans to create county licensing committees to help small-scale miners get licences more easily.

Mining Cabinet Secretary Dan Kazungu said the ministry has embarked on a four-month exercise to issue artisanal miners with permits in accordance with the new Mining Act.

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