Resources

This report summarizes the activities and results of the project Developing Training Materials to Promote the Reduction of Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining. Overall, the project sought to produce a business training module based on leading global practice in ASGM and designed to promote Minamata Convention compliance. This project is intended to enhance coordination among ASGM education programs throughout the APEC region in support of domestic and international mercury reduction efforts.

The first planetGOLD Technology without Mercury virtual exhibit took place October 6-7 2021. This resource offers all presentations however, because certain presentations included audio, all recordings of both days can be found on the planetGOLD event page. 

The meeting included updates of ongoing U.S Department of State granted mercury related projects in the ASGM sector and provided an opportunity for knowledge exchange. 

The overarching goal of this handbook is to establish a common knowledge base on the impacts of mercury use in the ASM sector on human health and the environment among all the stakeholders involved in or connected with artisanal gold mining.

A good understanding of mercury supply, trade and demand is critical to effective implementation of the Convention. This report provides detailed and timely information on where mercury comes from, how it moves in commerce, and how it is used in products and industrial processes. 

 This site contains multiple information documents on the dangerous effects of mercury such as: health impacts, tools for actions, guidance documents, fact sheet and other educational materials.

case studies illustrates that technology solutions for ASGM suffer from a lack of adoption by artisanal and small-scale miners. The challenges include a lack of knowledge by the miners, lack of capital for new technology, and a lack of trust that the new solution delivers the promised results. These insight are an important lessons for the range of efforts and approach on the part of governments, international organizations, and civil society organizations, to promote the use of clean and efficient technology for ASGM. In addition, any effort and approach to change the alternative technological set-up for ASGM needs to consider how it may

This paper presents results of mercury (Hg) in surface waters and soils and an analysis of satellite imagery from the Tapajo´s River basin, Brazilian Amazon, and the Reserva Garimpeira do Tapajo´s, the legal gold mining district of the basin.

“Establishing financing and loan alternatives to promote the acquisition of mercury-free technologies in ASGM” organizes and reconstructs the existing information on financial inclusion in the responsible artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector in Peru, based on the experience of the planetGOLD Peru project. The publication seeks to make known the advances in financial inclusion issues within the ASGM sector to mining organizations, savings and credit cooperatives, financial institutions, civil society institutions, international cooperation, specialized technical personnel, and potential users of credits. También disponible en español.

This pre-publication examines several current non-mercury methods employed by artisanal miners to recover gold and proposes a transformative strategy aimed at revolutionizing the use of mercury and cyanide salts in both ASM and LSM operations worldwide.