Govt moves to empower female miners

GOVERNMENT says it wants the Mines and Minerals Bill to be legislated soon to provide mining title ownership and support for female miners.

In April, female miners pleaded with government and banks to allow them to use mining titles as collateral when applying for loans as they were facing challenges in accessing working capital.

However, one difficulty with this plan is that women, youths and other artisanal miners often clash with other parties over ownership of mining titles.

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