YATO ARTISANAL
Yato Artisanal is manned by the Yato Community hence we are never short on the labor force. Team effort and involving the whole community has made us one of the major producers of gold in Cameroon.
We got our permit just about 8 years ago and since then we have grown into one of the largest precious metals dealers and brokers in the world by providing the best prices and the best service. we believe in doing business the old-fashioned way.
The gold market is a very difficult one and breaking into it was not easy. However, we are happy through hard-work we made our mark. Yarto Artisanal is now known and preferred by many gold dealers in the UAE and the world.
The online market is new to us and we are facing a lot of challenges. The scammers and fake investors are getting to us daily. It has also made completing deals very difficult as buyers are always skeptical about who to trust. Yato Artisanal is however facing the challenges head-on.
Working hard daily to meet customer demands while ensuring miners safety is our top priority. We do not break any laws hence you can invest in us without fear. Yato Artisanal is looking to welcome investors and more customers. So from the ground up, we built to meet gold investors’ unique needs.
What is Artisanal Mining
An artisanal miner or small-scale miner (ASM) is a subsistence miner who is not officially employed by a mining company, but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand.
Small-scale mining includes enterprises or individuals that employ workers for mining, but generally still using manually-intensive methods, working with hand tools.
Interior of an artisanal mine near Low’s Creek, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The human figures, exploring this mine, show the scale of tunnels driven entirely with hand tools (two-kilogram (4.4 lb) hammer and hand-forged scrap-steel chisel).
Artisanal miners often undertake the activity of mining seasonally—for example crops are planted in the rainy season, and mining is pursued in the dry season. However, they also frequently travel to mining areas and work year-round. There are four broad types of ASM: permanent artisanal mining, seasonal (annually migrating during idle agriculture periods), rush-type (massive migration, pulled often by commodity price jumps), and shock-push (poverty-drive, following conflict or natural disasters).
ASM is an important socio-economic sector for the rural poor in many developing nations, many of whom have few other options for supporting their families. Over 90% of the world’s mining workforce are ASM. There are an estimated 40.5 million men, women and children directly engaged in ASM, from over 80 countries in the global south. 20% of the global gold supply is produced by the ASM sector, as well as 80% of the global gemstone and 20% of global diamond supply, and 25% of global tin production.[3] More than 150 million depend on ASM for their livelihood. 70–80% of small-scale miners are informal, and approximately 30% are women, although this ranges in certain countries and commodities from 5% to 80%