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The standard has been developed as an open source bolt-on standard to avoid contributing to the proliferation of standards—rather, it enhances the forest and climate requirements of existing standards, guidelines, regulations, requirements, and certification schemes.

planetGOLD ISMIA conducted a market study to establish a baseline that would illustrate how gold mined from ASGM is traded, the price mechanism and the market actors involved. This study tool place between April and August 2020 within the six project sites.

This is the third module in the Verification and Capacity Building Training Package.

In the relationship between the ASM and LSM/ aggregating processing plants, the latter are normally in a position of power. This document provides elaborated recommendations on this matter.

This study estimates costs that enforcement imposes and the level of enforcement required to deter informal gold mining, and adds to the growing body of evidence that enforcement and alternative livelihood approaches alone are unlikely to deter informal gold mining.

Le manque de directives applicables à la gestion du cyanure dans le secteur de l'exploitation minière artisanale et à petite échelle de l'or (EMAPE) nécessite une attention urgente, en particulier compte tenu de l'accessibilité et de l'efficacité du cyanure lors de l'extraction de l'or, et à la lumière de la tendance à l'adoption de la cyanuration dans le secteur de l'exploitation minière à petite échelle de l'or dans le monde entier. L'objectif de ce document est de combler cette lacune en fournissant des conseils écrits aux parties prenantes de l'EMAPE sur la gestion des risques de la cyanuration lorsque les cadres juridiques et

This paper reflects critically on efforts to formalize artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing – in Mozambique.

The brochure introduces a standard set of criteria for conformance of the SSM organizations under the planetGOLD program. It contains the summary of modules based on the CRAFT Code and the planetGOLD-specific criteria as per the GEF Environment and Social Safeguards requirements.

This article addresses the crucial but rarely explored problem of gold traceability, and what happens when gold moves from mine to market, in Peru.