{"id":6293,"date":"2021-09-22T18:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:59:30","slug":"foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census","title":{"rendered":"Foreign artisanal miners in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Foreign citizens involved in artisanal mining in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by the nationwide artisanal mining census that the Mozambican government intends to carry out. Provincial authorities have confirmed that only Mozambicans mining mineral resources by hand will be surveyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly Mozambicans will be registered in this artisanal census and, at the moment, we are not interested in foreign artisanal miners,\u201d explained Norte Luali, director of Provincial Infrastructure Services at the start of the training of the census teams.<\/p>\n<p>Although practically all artisanal mining in Cabo Delgado is controlled by foreign nationals, who illegally excavate, sell and even export mineral resources, the provincial government does not see the need to include them in the census which starts next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt provincial level, the census will be carried out in 88 artisanal mining centres, where there are many foreigners, but as these people who constantly enter and leave the country, there is no need to include them in our statistics,\u201d Luali explained.<\/p>\n<p>The artisanal mining census will be taken from 11th October to 9th November, and will, for the first time in the country\u2019s history, establish exactly how many Mozambicans are involved in artisanal mining.<\/p>\n<p>Resources exploited by hand in Cabo Delgado include gold, rubies and other precious and semi-precious stones. Every year, dozens of artisanal miners lose their lives when the unsafe mines they dig collapse.<\/p>\n<p><b>By<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hizidine Acha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. Foreign citizens involved in artisanal mining in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by the nationwide artisanal mining census that the Mozambican government intends to carry out. Provincial authorities have confirmed that only Mozambicans mining mineral resources by hand will be surveyed. \u201cOnly Mozambicans will be registered in this artisanal census and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Foreign artisanal miners in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by census - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Foreign citizens involved in artisanal mining in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by the nationwide artisanal mining cen ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foreign artisanal miners in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by census\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Foreign citizens involved in artisanal mining in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by the nationwide artisanal mining cen ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-22T18:52:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/09\/img-614b60d7b73a3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Foreign artisanal miners in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by census\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-22T18:52:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census\"},\"wordCount\":246,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/09\/img-614b60d7b73a3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/foreign-artisanal-miners-in-cabo-delgado-will-not-be-covered-by-census\",\"name\":\"Foreign artisanal miners in Cabo Delgado will not be covered by census - 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