Resources

To curtail the exploitation of critical mineral supply chains by criminal actors, lessons can be drawn from the example of gold mining.

This policy briefing sets out key technical recommendations for the ongoing reform programme that would enable Mali to overcome obstacles to derive greater revenue from mining, to improve local development around mining sites and to strengthen the rights of artisanal gold miners.

This study presents and analyzes the interactions between ASGM and biodiversity based on new findings from 27 ASGM National Action Plans (NAPs) developed within the framework of Article 7 and Annex C of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, as well as a global literature review of more than 100 publications. 

The Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, in its decision MC-3/10 on the arrangements for the first effectiveness evaluation of the Convention, requested the need to advance work in drafting a report on trade, supply and demand, including information on mercury waste flows and stocks.

This annexed report released by SAICM aims to provide a thorough review of the status of illegal trade in chemicals, regulatory frameworks in trade of chemicals, with a particular focus on mercury and pesticides.

A study conducted on the Minamata Convention, its focus on mercury supply sources and trade, and recommendations for controlling mercury trade.

The EIA investigates into one of the largest reported seizures of mercury exposing multiple countries in violation of national laws and the Minamata Convention on Mercury.

This study aims to detect the existence of illegal intercountry mercury trade under the social mercury phase-out movement, focusing on discrepancies in each country’s trade statistics. 

This study discusses a method to detect inconsistencies in data on global mercury trade, and calculated the gap between the demand and supply of mercury to the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector (i.e., the largest source of Hg emissions globally) in 39 countries across four regions. 

This brief discusses the need to amend the Minamata Convention to end the mercury trade and establish a 2032 phase-out for ASGM as an allowable use of mercury.