Delve

The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector faces significant challenges in data availability and quality, which undermines the sector’s contribution to global development and perpetuates a widely held public narrative that ASM is dirty, chaotic, and unavoidably linked to conflict and environmental and social harm. The World Bank and Pact are partnering with sector stakeholders to develop an unprecedented database that makes accurate, integrated data on ASM available online. The data platform is called Delve. The first version of the platform went live in 2019. The initiative also publishes an annual State of the ASM Sector report, the first of which was published in 2019. To learn more or sign up to partner with the initiative, visit the program’s webpage at www.delvedatabase.org.