Resources

A new report from WWF and Themis traces how high-risk minerals—including gold, cobalt, coltan, and rare earths—move through opaque, multi-jurisdictional supply chains that are hard to monitor and vulnerable to criminal exploitation. 

En el mundo planetGOLD se impulsa una MAPE con rostro de mujer, porque la sostenibilidad solo es posible con igualdad.

Cuando las mujeres participan, lideran, acceden a oportunidades mejora la salud de la comunidad, la producción adecuada y la confianza.

Te invitamos a leer este documento que cuenta, desde las voces de las mujeres mineras artesanales y de pequeña escala, su realidad y te invita a reflexionar y sumarte a las acciones que, con voluntad, transforman este sector productivo.

This policy brief examines the changes that have emerged concerning Venezuela as a regional destination for illicit gold and how intersections with US policy and action may impact illicit gold markets in Venezuela and the wider Western Hemisphere.

This technical background document provides insights on how to engage with Indigenous Peoples and with local communities, inform policy makers to help protect human health and the environment, reduce the environmental damage and human impacts, and strengthen environmental protection and biodiversity conservation in areas where ASGM is prevalent.

This report provides a description of the three key pillars of the Road map for enhancing co-benefits from implementation of the Minamata Convention and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and advancing overall coherence across the mercury and biodiversity agendas.

This study reviews the use of sodium-based compounds such as urea, sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, sodium carbonate, and thiosulfate-often formulated with sodium cyanide-as gold leaching agents by artisanal miners, and proposes a greener, more sustainable alternative.

ASGM in Burkina Faso increasingly relies on cyanide, intensifying concerns about environmental contamination and human exposure. This study assessed free cyanide levels in water and soil across three ASGM sites—Zougnazagmiline, Guido, and Galgouli. 

Within the context of "...the capture of key eastern trading hubs and gold-rich territories by M23 rebels backed by Rwanda in early 2025" this report investigates how Congolese gold continues to flow through formalized export arrangements while conflict continued to rise and armed groups dominated gold-rich areas.