This article reviews the use of mercury in artisanal mining and highlights the role miners, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played in communicating facts, perpetuating myths and deriving solutions for mercury pollution. This article also raises some key concerns that must be addressed to understand the behaviour of mercury in the environment and identifies solutions for problems facing communities where artisanal gold mining operations have been abandoned.
Maria Elena Crespo-Lopez; Amanda Lopes-Araújo; Paulo Cesar Basta; Isabela Soares-Silva; Carlos B. A. de Souza; Caio Gustavo Leal-Nazaré; Letícia Santos-Sacramento; Jean Ludger Barthelemy; Gabriela P. Arrifano, and Marcus Augusto-Oliveira
English
The authors outline insightful recommendations to enhance public health surveillance and implement enduring, effective strategies to monitor, report and address mercury exposure/intoxication, focusing on the Brazilian Amazon.
Batista, M.J., Carvalho, J., Tychsen, J.
Portuguese
Este guia prático sobre “Exploração Mineira Artesanal e de Pequena Escala na Região da Africa Austral” é o resultado de uma sessão de formação que teve lugar em Maputo, Moçambique de 26 a 30 de Setembro de 2022, como parte do Work Package C sobre Exploração Mineira Artesanal e de Pequena Escala com participantes de 16 países da região Austral de África.
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.
Cette analyse s’appuie sur des études de cas détaillées des expériences menées dans ces pays. Pour huit de ces pays, les études de cas ont été développées grâce à la collaboration des équipes nationales planetGOLD respectives avec The Impact Facility (TIF) et l’Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM).
Under The Lake Victoria Gold Programme, The Impact Facility established an equipment lease-to-ownership business solution for artisanal mineral gold producers of East Africa.
Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
English
This report examines the potential for ASM to take an expanded role in meeting critical mineral demand driven by the adoption of low-carbon energy and digital technology.
The report examines the relationship between national fiscal regimes and the formality of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector. Specifically, the study attempts to determine whether and to what extent a country’s fiscal regime – the total of taxes, fees, and royalties – acts as significant factor pushing ASGM producers and exporters into informality. The report addresses the production segment of the gold supply chain from the commercialisation segment and focusses specifically on nine planetGOLD countries: Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Peru.
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