products, 274 (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, 2017, p. 62–63; 2018, p. 41, 44). In May 2016, the President of Kenya signed the Mining Act 2016, which replaced the Mining Act 1940. The new legislation gave the Government a 10% free-carried interest in mining operations, legalized artisanal mining, simplified the types
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