Resources

This brief outlines how the LPRM can be a powerful tool for civil society organizations to improve accountability for efforts to increase local procurement, facilitate their oversight role in fair and transparent procurement processes, and also to help build collaboration between mining companies and local businesses to target supplying opportunities.

Since 2018, The Impact Facility has been looking for practical ways to manage, mitigate an eliminate mercury use in the ASGM space. This report presents work carried out in mercury use sensitisation, with more than a dozen artisanal mining groups in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, reflecting on successes, challenges and failures experienced along the way

This case study documents the finance models implemented by the planetGOLD Mongolia project in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) communities, with a consideration of the gender aspects of the projects. 

Presentations from OES program implementers are provided.

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.

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.

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.