2022 Global Forum on Artisanal & Small-Scale Gold Mining

During this 3-day virtual event planetGOLD brought together some of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners to discuss the most important issues facing the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector globally

Event banner for 2022 Global Forum on ASGM

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) produces about 20 percent of the world’s gold each year and supports the livelihoods of approximately 15 million miners and their families. Many of these small-scale mining operations use the toxic chemical mercury to extract their gold.

This practice can change with access to education and economic opportunities to employ alternative equipment. Mercury-free technologies can boost miners’ productivity—leading to economic, environmental, and social benefits including significantly reduced global mercury pollution and safer, cleaner, more responsible gold supply chains.

The aim of this virtual event organized by planetGOLD was to bring together the global ASGM community, from miner representatives and policy and technical experts to practitioners, governments, and donors in order to exchange knowledge and experiences, while ultimately spurring action toward transforming the sector’s practices globally.

Over three days, sessions explored key opportunities to improve financial access for the ASGM sector; global experiences with creating responsible gold supply chains from ASGM operations; approaches to advance formalization; technologies for mercury-free gold production; addressing gender inequalities in the sector; mercury trade issues; and more.

Experience the Global Forum Again

Recordings of the 3-day event are available on the YouTube playlist embedded below. Video recordings are also available with audio interpretation here in Spanish and here in French

To find the recording of a particular session, go to the video recording for that day, look in the video description section, and click on the “chapter” that corresponds to the session of interest.

Meeting Report & Answers to Your Questions

This report provides brief summaries of each of the Global Forum sessions.

For questions unanswered during the live event, please find speaker responses here.

Photo by Carolina Moncayo, PNGQ

Comments

Thank you while I await further information on registration and session timings for 2022 Global Forum on Artisanal & Small-Scale Gold Mining

Mi nombre es Helard Loayza,poseo una patente para extraer oro sin necesidad de mercurio,con altas tasas de recuperación,si desean conocer la tecnología,escribir al siguiente correo [email protected]

Muy interesante; como consultor especializado en minería aluvial, estoy a sus órdenes para sugerir mecanismos que redunden en bien del pequeño minero, sus comunidades y el medio ambiente.

Hello! How could one apply to be a presenter? (A technology company in the area of mercury-free mining).

Thanks for your question! The agenda for this global forum is already finalized, so it might not be possible to apply as a presenter. But please send an email with some details about your company to [email protected]

Thank you for the indication, Ken! We sent an email. Is it possible to know with which person we should follow up on it? I would appreciate your help.

This sounds like an interesting forum and I will attend. I am a partner in a small scale gold mine in southern Kenya. One comment on the agenda is that it is focused on the policy/government level with no input from people in the field actually doing the mining and processing of ore. I attended the forum In Livingstone, Zambia a few years ago and it was the same there. Is it possible to add a session where the concerns of miners could also be presented and discussed?

Thanks for your comment and glad you'll be attending the forum. We agree about the importance of having miners involved in the event. Indeed, we do have two women miners making presentations via pre-recorded videos as well as a series of video miner testimonials that will be shown throughout the event. There can be technical challenges related to live participation in virtual events like this, but we aim for more miner participation in future planetGOLD events.

une autre question chez nous en RDC c'est la traçabilité de l'Or qui pose déjà problème. dans le secteur minier la traçabilité de l'Or reste un casse tête en tel sorte que la RDC le processus de traçabilité implémenté par plusieurs bailleurs des fonds n'a pas trouver gain de cause et la preuve en ait que le sud kivu en 2021 a produit seulement 1kg qui étais reconnue dans la chaine. pire encore aucune maison de négoce a accepter acheté ce minerais jusqu'en février 2022.

Merci pour votre commentaire. Au cours du forum mondial, plusieurs sessions discuteront de la question de la traçabilité de l'or dans le secteur de EMAPE, y compris des considérations sur la chaîne d'approvisionnement (veuillez consulter les deux sessions pertinentes du 27 avril). Nous vous inivons à paricper au forum pour échanger sur ce sujet.