Resources

La segunda guía aborda las mejores prácticas en la prevención de riesgos a la salud de hombres y mujeres en la MAPE, para contribuir a la protección y reducción de riegos a la salud de los trabajadores, de las organizaciones mineras y poblaciones aledañas.

This educational course was developed to support the training of public health and health-care professionals, medical and other allied students and professionals, and decision-makers in the health and environmental sectors. It compiles information on human exposure to different types of mercury and their health effects, the use of mercury in the health sector, and the policy and technical documents guiding preventive actions at a national level.

As artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso has increased in recent years, so have violent attacks by non-state armed groups. The assumption that there is a natural causal link between the two is, however, too simplistic. The escalating violence should rather be seen as a result of long-term trends, such as state disengagement, a growing dependence on gold and the gradual privatisation of security. This paper recommends that policy makers avoid a repressive approach to artisanal mining and rethink the governance of the sector, in consultation with miners and rural communities.

This document was created to guide the training of health practitioners on certain health risks that are common in the sector. While there are many health risks in the ASGM sector, this guide is limited to risks specifically related to ASGM, particularly those that are rarely covered by general university professional trainings.

This guide describes the principals of reducing and eliminating mercury use in ASGM in an accessible manner. Featuring many photographs of ASGM equipment and techniques, the document explains the importance of milling and concentration, as well as other covering other topics such as retorts and tailings. 

The face of ASGM and conditions in Indonesia can change for the better and healthier by switching miners to using mercury-free technologies and enabling them to sell their gold to the formal market. This video from the planetGOLD project in Indonesia explains why it's critical to Make Mercury History in artisanal and small-scale gold mining to ensure healthy food chains and to protect human health today and for future generations. Closed captions in English are available.

The objective of this report is to summarize gender dynamics in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector and their social and economic implications on women miners in Mongolia.  The report concludes that, while some barriers exist, the ASGM sector offers viable livelihoods options for women and identifies encouraging opportunities for women to serve as agents of change for formalization and better mining practices.

El programa planetGOLD establece criterios específicos para regir las operaciones de las entidades mineras de oro artesanales y de pequeña escala que participan en el programa. Los Criterios planetGOLD se alinean con el Código CRAFT, e incluyen tres criterios específicos del programa planetGOLD: eliminar el mercurio en el proceso minero, respetar y proteger los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y minimizar el impacto en la biodiversidad. El cumplimiento de estos criterios garantizará que los mineros artesanales y de pequeña escala que participen en el programa planetGOLD realicen esfuerzos suficientes para evitar, minimizar, mitigar y, en su caso, compensar los impactos adversos sobre las personas y el medio ambiente.

This comic book was produced by the planetGOLD Indonesia project for young audiences and as an educational tool for school teachers to use, raising awareness about the dangers of exposure to mercury used in artisanal and small-scale gold mining.

Tomando en cuenta diversas experiencias y contextos de Latinoamérica como Colombia, Perú y Bolivia, esta publicación hace énfasis en la viabilidad de la aplicación del Estándar en la región latinoamericana y ofrece, a su vez, nuevos caminos para incentivar la adopción de buenas prácticas mineras.