Resources

The planetGOLD Guyana project worked to change behaviors in the mining sector and shift opinions on reducing the use of mercury in the ASGM sector.

Recognizing that lasting change requires addressing root economic and social drivers of mercury use, planetGOLD is working to accelerate formalization, increase access to formal finance and open avenues to formal gold markets, creating the enabling conditions for the uptake of more efficient, mercury-free technology. This report provides an overview of the progress made since the launch of the planetGOLD programme in early 2019 and includes data from the initiation of each of the national projects through fall 2020.

This annexed report released by SAICM aims to provide a thorough review of the status of illegal trade in chemicals, regulatory frameworks in trade of chemicals, with a particular focus on mercury and pesticides.

National Action Plan To Reduce And Where Feasible Eliminate Mercury Use In Artisanal And Small-Scale Gold Mining In Ghana -  2020. 

Overview of guidance for preparing an artisanal and small-scale gold mining National Action Plan to fulfill obligations under Article 7 of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

In this animated video produced by the planetGOLD project in Indonesia, Awam Prakoso, a well-known storyteller in Indonesia, explains to young viewers the dangers of exposure to mercury through a story about two young boys who want to play soccer near a small-scale gold mine. The story tells children to stay away from any potentially polluted areas and articulates the need for small-scale mining to move away from mercury use.

National Action Plan (NAP) to reduce and, where feasible, eliminate the use of mercury in the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector in Zimbabwe.

Initially developed for Brazil, the calculator is an online analytical and pedagogical tool that economically assesses the social and environmental damages of gold mining
considering three specific effects: deforestation, sedimentation and mercury contamination.

Madagascar's National Action Plan to reduce and/or eliminate mercury from ASGM, in conformity with the obligations of the Minamata Convention. Submitted to the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention in 2019. 

This poster designed by the planetGOLD Burkina Faso project was created to share information with local communities in mining areas on the ways in which mercury use accumulates in and impacts the environment.