{"id":14620,"date":"2024-01-26T01:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/more-than-40-killed-in-artisanal-mine-collapse-in-southwest-mali-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T01:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:46:58","slug":"more-than-40-killed-in-artisanal-mine-collapse-in-southwest-mali-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/more-than-40-killed-in-artisanal-mine-collapse-in-southwest-mali-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 40 killed in artisanal mine collapse in southwest Mali, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      More than 40 artisanal gold miners were killed in southwest Mali last week after the shaft they were working in collapsed, Mali\u2019s mines ministry said on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Artisanal mining is a common activity across much of West Africa and has risen in recent years due to growing demand for metals and rising prices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Deadly accidents are frequent as artisanal miners often use old-fashioned and unregulated methods of digging.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The incident in Mali occurred on Friday on a site in the Kangaba Cercle in the south-western Koulikoro Region, the mines ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that did not specify the number of deaths.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A spokesperson for the ministry, Baye Coulibaly, said via telephone on Wednesday that the death toll was still provisional.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cGold panners have dug galleries without complying with the required standards, and we have advised them against it on several occasions in vain,\u201d Coulibaly said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The ministry would be a sending a mission to the Kangaba area on Thursday to get more details on the accident, he added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      According to\u00a0mines ministry data, an estimated six tons of gold was produced in artisanal mines in Mali in 2023.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 artisanal gold miners were killed in southwest Mali last week after the shaft they were working in collapsed, Mali\u2019s mines ministry said on Wednesday. Artisanal mining is a common activity across much of West Africa and has risen in recent years due to growing demand for metals and rising prices. Deadly accidents <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}