The Gabonese government has launched a campaign to regulate artisanal miners in the gold, diamond and quarry materials sectors (sand, gravel, etc.) in order to equip them with artisanal exploration maps.

Through its campaign, the government wants to encourage the legal exercise of artisanal mining trades and, in the process, to arouse local interest in these sectors of activity. The teams of the Ministry of Mines who are deployed in the country & agrave; from October 16, 2023, will issue artisanal exploration cards to its craftsmen who will present themselves individually to the teams of the administration in charge of mines according to the exploitation areas, equipped with a file including, among other things, a sum of

The schedule indicates that the ministry's teams will deploy to Moyen-Ogooué from October 16 to November 5, to Woleu-Ntem and Ngounie from November 13 to December 3, in Nyanga from December 4 to December 11, in Ogooué-Ivindo from December 6 to December 26, in Haut-Ogounie From December 14 to December 23, in Ogooué-loio from December 24 to January 13, 2024, then in the Estuary from December 29, 2023 to January 4, 2024