Claim: In 2022 about 24,000kg of gold produced by artisanal and small-scale miners  were declared against an estimated 78,000kg that went undeclared.
Fact-check: Digging into gold flow: NewsDay misrepresents but SwissAid has holes in its data  - FactCheckZW
Verdict: the claim that 'in 2022 about 24,000kg of gold produced by artisanal and small-scale miners  were declared against an estimated 78,000kg that went undeclared' has been rated as false. this is because the newsday misquoted the data from the swissaid report which puts total asm gold production at 78,000kg with 24,000 being declared and 54,000 undeclared.
Organisation: FactCheckZW
Author: Lifaqane Nare
Date published: 2024-06-10T14:20:27