The mission of the planetGOLD programme is to make small-scale gold mining safer, cleaner, and more profitable from mine to market—by closing the financing gap, supporting formalization, and connecting miners with mercury-free technology and formal markets.
The 2021/2022 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of key advances project teams made toward helping miners go mercury-free, by improving miners’ awareness of the dangers of mercury use, educating and demonstrating to them viable technical alternatives, and progressing in creating an enabling regulatory and financial environment that supports miners to undertake this transition.
Explore the report to discover key activities and accomplishments in the programme, learn about tools and strategies projects are using, and get a glimpse at new country projects joining as the planetGOLD programme expands.