====== Morocco ======

==== ASM Population: 100,000 ====
Total: Most recent and most reliable appears the personal information from MM (2017): **100,000**.\\
Min/max: Certainty is however low. Minimum is estimated according to UBC-14 data (73,000), Maximum according to MM (2017) estimations (150,000). -> **73,000 - 150,000** \\
Female occupation probably low, being an islamic country; -> perhaps **2,000**? \\
Gold: UBC-14 data appears to also include ASM on other minerals and therefore overestimating the number of ASGM miners.But the border region between Morocco, Mauritania and Algeria has been known for several years to attract ASGM, but little is published. Best guess: not more than **10,000** (?)

==== Data sources for estimation ====

===2019: 8,000 ===
DELVE-19: Country Profile Morocco 8,000
  ASM Employment:  5,000–10,000 (total), 1,500 (barite) 
  Female Miners: Unknown 
  Formalization: Unknown 
  
  Materials mined by ASM
  • Barite, lead, zinc total: 495,710 tons (2013)
  • Barite: 397,000 tons = 80% of total (2013)
(Outdated data inherited from 1999!)

===2017: 100,000 ===
Interview w. Michał Młynarczyk (EIT Raw Materials): 100,000 and possibly up to 150,000

===2014: 73,000 ===
(UBC-14): Gold-only data produced by statistic modelling: \\
  Expected ASM population: 73,000 
  Estimated ASM gold production: 1.1 t/a

===1999: 7,500 ===
(ILO-99): Employment: 5,000 - 10,000\\
Number of mines: n/a \\
Illegal mines: n/a \\
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==== Publications ====
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