In Mali, where hazardous child labour is common in artisanal gold mining, much of the gold is sold to traders in the capital, and then exported to Switzerland, Dubai, and elsewhere.
Women in these gold mining regions may engage in geophagy, or earth-eating, behaviors, which are common in artisanal mining areas due to poor nutritional status and cultural acceptance of this practice [ 14].
To the local populations of the aforementioned countries, managing currencies has turned common people into artisanal forex traders.
In the trendy bars and restaurant of Warsaw it is now common to find intriguing artisanal beers, partly giving new life to old habits, partly reflecting the appeal of the "global Brooklyn" among the younger urban generations, which I discussed in a previous post.
The common values, and buzzwords, are "artisanal," "hand-crafted," and "site-specific".
Artisanal mining is increasingly common in many parts of the world with more than 30 million active artisanal miners in more than 55 countries [ 1, 2].
Although not all birth defects are caused by toxic chemicals, birth defects are more common in areas where industries, such as artisanal gold mining use or produce toxic chemicals or wastes such as Hg [ 30].
But artisanal fishing with bottom trawling is common in São Paulo, Paraná, and Santa Catarina states, where the main fishing targets are prawns, corvinas, hakes, soles, engrauliids, and mullet [260], [261].
Calling a food "artisanal" was eye-catching, until it became so common that we're not far away from an artisanal plunger.
The common torpedo is edible, but is little-valued by commercial or artisanal fisheries and is mostly discarded when caught.
