— About nine million Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) workers in Africa and people living near ASGM activities are highly exposed to geogenic and anthropogenic potentially toxic elements (PTEs). Despite the hazards and risks posed by ASGM being well characterized, coordinated multidisciplinary environmental …

 — South Africa can draw valuable lessons from these examples to develop a more effective and holistic approach to managing its artisanal mining sector. Insights from Al Jazeera's 'The Gold Mafia' Al Jazeera's seminal on illegal mining has revealed the depth and complexity of the illegal mining network, highlighting its far-reaching ...

 — Nigerian and Swiss firms have signed a pact to develop precious metals and artisanal gold mining value chain. On the sideline of the Investing in African Mining …

 — S ociety Artisanal, an organization that aims to export conflict-free artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), announced its partnership with Minespider, a technology company offering a blockchain-based traceability platform and Digital Product Passports to implement traceability and prove provenance and …

The Artisanal Gold Council (AGC) was invited by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to conduct an emergency assessment and recommendations on …

 — Worldwide, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) includes an estimated forty million participants, and ASM activities indirectly support more than 150 million people across eighty countries in the global South (Intergovernmental Forum, 2017: 2).In the South African context, the number of people employed in the sector is estimated to be between …

[IN PHOTOS] At the 5th National Assembly of the National Coalition of Small Scale Miners in the Philippines, Inc. (NCSSMPI), held from July 25-26, 2024, planetGOLD Philippines fully supported responsible mining and legislative reforms in the ASGM sector. The assembly, hosted at Althea's Dream Land Resort in Brgy. Mampurog, San Lorenzo Ruiz, …

 — Artisanal gold mines in West Africa's Sahel region including in Mali have become a source of revenue and recruits for Islamist militants as they secure sites or levy illicit taxes, the ...

We first demonstrate that artisanal mining leads to tropical deforestation and vegetation degradation. We find that the historical increase in the gold price accounts for 20 percent of the total deforestation in the gold-prone …

 — Africa's artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector has development potential. At their peak in 2017 these mines in Niger employed as many as 600 000 people and created opportunities for local infrastructural development. But these prospects are undermined by criminals who profiteer from the sector at the expense of vulnerable …

Country Reports National Action Plans that AGC helped develop Burkina Faso French PDF Ecuador English PDF, Spanish PDF Lao PDR English PDF Mali French PDF Senegal French PDF For more information related to National Action Plans, please visit the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury website. Rapid …

 — The main hypothesis is that sites of artisanal gold mining activities are characterized by higher concentrations of toxic metals than the farmland and forest sites. Although the study area has a long history of gold mining (which probably commenced around 1940), the activities are up till date artisanal (Makinde, Oluyemi, & Olabanji, …

 — West African nation wants to develop vast small-scale gold sector with South African machinery and expertise.

 — Delve partners as specified at the start of each section. Thank you to all of the contributors to the 2020 Delve report. ... ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN MINING IN AFRICA ... 95 MOYO GEMS: SUPPORTING WOMEN ARTISANAL MINERS IN TANZANIA TO ... ASGM artisanal and small-scale gold mining ASM artisanal and small-scale …

 — Exclusive interview with Mark Wellington, General Manager, Minelab MEA, gold sponsors at the upcoming Nigeria Mining Week Digital Event from 16-20 October. …

 — On Thursday 16 July, Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari collect di first gold bar wey artisans produce according to international standards, to mark di launch of im Presidential Artisanal Gold ...

 — Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is crucial to the livelihoods of close to 20 million people in over 80 countries, including 4-5 million women, mainly in rural areas with limited alternative economic prospects, particularly in developing countries. ASGM is largely informal, which can add to the challenge of addressing negative social …

 — Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities have contributed, in most cases, to the rural development of some African countries. Practically, these activities have influenced the ...

Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM), as a largely informal poverty-driven activity, can be environmentally damaging often posing serious health and safety consequences for workers and surrounding …

 — An illegal artisanal gold mining industry takes root. South Africa's Witwatersrand goldfields have produced over 30% of all the gold ever mined. But in recent decades, large-scale gold mining has declined precipitously. Between 2012 and 2019 the industry shed 42,000 jobs.

Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Nigeria: Recommendations to Address Mercury and Lead Exposure. This assessment examines the legal and policy challenges …

 — Nigeria, with its geologically diverse landscape, is home to numerous gold deposits. Miners, both in large-scale industrial sites and in smaller artisanal settings, toil …

 — Artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) is considered a viable source of income for millions of people in over 80 countries (IGF, 2018). ASM is a low technology, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing industry (Hilson & Hilson, 2015; Hilson & Maconachie, 2020a; Hilson, 2016a, 2016b), which provides both direct as well as …

 — The 2010 lead poisoning outbreak that claimed the lives of more than 400 children in artisanal gold mining villages in Zamfara, Nigeria is the tragic result of high gold prices, a geologic anomaly, and processing of ores in residential areas. Today, these villages face a growing crisis related to conflict and climate change.

 — The problems in ASM often present a significant barrier to sustainable foreign investment in African critical minerals. The aforementioned problems in the artisanal sector have made Western business interests hesitant to invest in Africa's critical minerals. Poor labor practices and human rights violations associated with ASM could expose global …

 — As part of the implementation of their National Action Plans (NAP) to reduce and, if possible, eliminate the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Côte d'Ivoire and Togo in response to Article 7 and Annex C of the Minamata Convention, a study tour was organised from 21 to 26 May 2023, around the town of Kara, in northern …

 — Due to the poor management and regulation of the mining sector in Nigeria, most mining activities are prompted by artisanal and small-scale miners, who make up about 95% of miners in Nigeria ...

Laos National Action Plan on Mercury for the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector (2017-2019) As the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector is a major source of mercury release and environmental pollution in the world, the Minamata Convention requires countries which determine that ASGM activities are more than insignificant in …

2019 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Acknowledgments and key contributors: The 2019 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector is a collaboration between the World Bank Energy and Extractive Industries Global Practice, Pact, Surrey Business School University of Surrey,

 — Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) takes place under extreme conditions with a lack of occupational health and safety. As the demand for metals is increasing due in part to their extensive use in 'green technologies' for climate change mitigation, the negative environmental and occupational consequences of mining …