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This policy briefing sets out key technical recommendations for the ongoing reform programme that would enable Mali to overcome obstacles to derive greater revenue from mining, to improve local development around mining sites and to strengthen the rights of artisanal gold miners.

This guidance document outlines a framework of interventions that, taken together, provide governments with the tools to support the development of the ASM sector in a holistic and sustainable manner.

This article examines the recentralization of power in this growing informal sector, exploring how heavy-handed implementation of national reforms contributed to livelihood insecurity. The study emphasizes how national officials invoked “formalization” rationales for mining policy shifts that obscured their underlying political and economic drivers, disempowering local district authorities and deepening the marginalization of informal livelihoods.

This document is intended for use by LBMA Good Delivery Refiners and should be interpreted as a minimum threshold upon which Refiners should build and continually improve their responsible sourcing practices for each of the applicable precious metals. The reader can find more information here: LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance V9

Drawing on cases in two provinces, Kratie and Ratanakiri, the study examines why a nuanced approach is needed that takes into account multiple types of extraction activity and multiple perspectives on how rural stakeholder participation could work in the extractive sector. The article analyzes policy options to sensitively address rural development dynamics in mining areas, suggesting key roles that future research can play in generating useful contextual knowledge that can help improve resource regulation, rural livelihood support services and regional land use planning.

This report examines the various aspects of artisanal mining with a view of its potential to attract investment from both domestic and international sources. This report is based on personal examination, by the author, of currently available reports and data on the Lake Victoria Goldfields region and ASGM operations in Kenya.

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 authors estimate mercury releases from artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) based on available data about mercury and gold exports and imports by country and from field reports from the countries known to have active ASGM communities.

This study presents and analyzes the interactions between ASGM and biodiversity based on new findings from 27 ASGM National Action Plans (NAPs) developed within the framework of Article 7 and Annex C of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, as well as a global literature review of more than 100 publications.