Resources

The author researches the similar challenges of using law enforcement against illegal miners and the formalization of ASM in Andean states.

Madagascar's National Action Plan to reduce and/or eliminate mercury from ASGM, in conformity with the obligations of the Minamata Convention. Submitted to the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention in 2019. 

This report examines whether and how legal frameworks inhibit or promote women’s equality and empowerment in ASM, along with analyzing several other key barriers to women’s participation and empowerment in the sector including social protections and access to occupational health and safety.

This Practical Guide for Integrated Landscape Management outlines an adaptive, collaborative and iterative process to help stakeholders achieve transformational change in their landscape.

This work provides an environmental analysis of policy enforcement that includes long-term monitoring of mining activity and recovery, with findings relevant to policymakers in Amazonian countries and around the world experiencing increases in alluvial gold mining.

US EPA presents a brief information page on a variety of important issues around the dangers of mercury in the ASGM sector.

The authors present the value of remote sensing techniques to complement the knowledge on artisanal mining impacts, including for detection of illegal sites, the evaluation of the degradation of soils and waters, the deforestation and the monitoring of expansion of ASGM with time. While these techniques are relevant, they sometimes are blind  to gender issues, labor relations, mobility, migration, and insecurity.

This paper discusses opportunities to use remote sensing (RS) technologies in addressing the persistent global challenges related to the ASGM sector.

This page offers additional resources related to remote sensing and mercury monitoring in and around ASGM sites.

This is the final technical background document created for the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury Fifth meeting.