
Resources
The planetGOLD Knowledge Repository
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Interview with Medium Scale Miner Vincent Xavier
planetGOLD Guyana English
The planetGOLD Guyana project is supporting Guyana with the move towards reducing and eliminating, where possible, the use of mercury in ASGM sector. Here we meet up with one small miner from Region 8 in Guyana, South America where he shares his knowledge on the dangers or mercury and his experience as a miner.
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Interview with Small-Scale Miner Juliana Thorne in Region 8, Guyana
planetGOLD Guyana English
The planetGOLD Guyana project is supporting Guyana with the move towards reducing and eliminating, where possible, the use of mercury in ASGM sector. Here we meet up with one small scale woman miner from Region 8 in Guyana, South America where she shares her knowledge on the dangers or mercury and her experience as a miner.
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Interview with Small-Scale Miner from Guyana, Germain Young
planetGOLD Guyana English
The planetGOLD Guyana project is supporting Guyana with the move towards reducing and eliminating, where possible, the use of mercury in ASGM sector. Here we meet up with one small miner from Region 8 in Guyana, South America where he shares his knowledge on the dangers or mercury and his experience as a miner.
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Бичил уурхай: Хариуцлагатай хөрөнгө оруулалтын боломж
planetGOLD Mongolia Mongolian
planetGOLD Mongolia төсөл "Өдрийн сонин"-ы 2021 оны гуравдугаар сарын 30-ны дугаарт алтны бичил уурхайд дахь хөрөнгө оруулалтын боломжууд болон Монгол Улсын Засгийн газраас хариуцлагатай алтны бичил уурхайг дэмжихийн тулд хэрэгжүүлж буй алхмуудын талаар нийтлүүлсэн байна.
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Artisanal Gold: Opportunities for Responsible Investment in Mongolia
planetGOLD Mongolia English
The planetGOLD Mongolia project published this article in the March 2021 issue of the Mongolian Mining Journal, touching on some key points on opportunities to invest in artisanal gold and on steps the Government of Mongolia has taken to promote responsible artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
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The Just Gold Project: Lessons for the Future of Artisanal Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
Oscar Katho, Joanne Lebert, Jean Paul Lonema, Patience Singo, and Gerard van der Burg English
Read IMPACT's latest report based on its experiences implementing the Just Gold project in DRC from 2012 to 2020 which sought to test whether and how artisanal gold could be traced from mine site to market. The report promotes transparency to assist others committed to supporting security, development, and equality for women and men miners and ASM communities.
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Evaluating and Monitoring Small Scale Gold Mining and Mercury Use: Building a Knowledge-base with Satellite Imagery and Field Work
Daniel Stapper and Kevin Telmer English
This project was a pilot study at building a basic database for ASM sites in Brazil and Indonesia. The aim was to combine field work with satellite imagery to build a database that would span spatial scales and times greater than possible through field work alone.
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The source and fate of sediment and mercury in the Tapajo´s River, Para´, Brazilian Amazon: Ground- and space-based evidence
Kevin Telmer, Maycira Costa, et al. English
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.
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Supply chains of artisanal gold in West Africa
Alliance for Responsible Mining English
A study of the supply chain in two gold-producing regions of Burkina Faso and Senegal
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- Conflict Areas
- Development
- Due Diligence Resources
- Due Diligence/Responsible Gold
- Due Diligence/ Supply Chains
- Environmental Impact
- Gold Consumers
- Health/Safety
- Human Rights/ Vulnerable Populations
- Income/Livelihood
- Microfinance/ Socially Responsible Investing
- Minamata Convention/National Action Plan
- Sustainable Development Goals
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Aplicación de la Guía de la Debida Diligencia de la OCDE para empresas comercializadoras de minerales en Colombia
Christophe Hanne; ARM Spanish
Esta cartilla fue concebida como instrumento práctico y didáctico para que las empresas comercializadoras y demás actores de la cadena de suministro de minerales conozcan la ruta mediante la cual se identifiquen y mitiguen los riesgos, a la vez que se promueva la llegada de este mineral a los mercados internacionales de una manera legítima.
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- Baseline Assessments
- Development
- Due Diligence Resources
- Due Diligence/Responsible Gold
- Due Diligence/ Supply Chains
- Environmental Impact
- Gender
- Gold Consumers
- Governance
- Health/Safety
- Human Rights/ Vulnerable Populations
- Income/Livelihood
- Legal Framework
- Microfinance/ Socially Responsible Investing
- Minamata Convention/National Action Plan
- Sustainable Development Goals
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