This report documenting planetGOLD’s progress from July 2021 through June 2022 shows how project teams in planetGOLD made key advances toward helping miners go mercury-free, by improving miners’ awareness of the dangers of mercury use, educating and demonstrating to them viable technical alternatives, and progressing in creating an enabling regulatory and financial environment that supports miners to undertake this transition.
GOLD-ISMIA developed ‘Jari Emas’ mobile application and web portal database to support digitization in the inventory of mercury avoided from the ASGM sector. Since its official go-live for public on 01 January 2022, Jari Emas has recorded a total of 8.59 ton mercury avoided. With further coordination with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry as the National Secretariat of Minamata Convention, this application can be expanded to other ASGM sites, providing the Government of Indonesia with a national database of mercury avoidance by means of reduction from the sector.
Formalization of Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) miners is an important step towards the reduction and phase-out of mercury from the sector. This view is embedded within the Global Opportunity for Long-term Development – Integrated Sound Management of Indonesia’s Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (GOLD-ISMIA) Project.
One of the GOLD-ISMIA objectives is to avoid 15 tonnes of mercury through the introduction of Best Environment Practices (BEP), Best Available Technology (BAT) and socially and environmentally sound Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) practices where the Project will establish 1 mercury-free processing plant and 5 small-mobile plant. The decision of implementation BEP and BAP at each of mining site will be depending upon the result of socio-economic baseline survey (including collection of sex-disaggregated data) and mercury/gold mass balance inventories.
The artisanal small-scale gold mining activity provides a significant boost in economic activity for rural communities, yet the informal nature of the majority of operations in this sector makes it difficult for miners to access financing and cleaner technologies that could transform their operations. Both women and men are engaged in ASGM in Indonesia. However, GOLD-ISMIA Project has come to understand that there are gender-based differences in the types of work women and men are engaged relating to ASGM, leading to gaps in the income they can earn, disparities in access to knowledge and technologies, and differences in the health risks they
Le plus récent rapport d’IMPACT révèle comment, faute d’accès aux institutions financières formels, la main-d’œuvre du secteur de l’or artisanal s’enlise dans le cycle de l’illégalité, – une situation qui alimente leur dépendance envers des prêteurs informels et, parfois, prédateurs.
IMPACT’s newest report reveals how artisanal gold miners and traders are stuck in a cycle of illegality, without access to formal financial institutions, leaving them dependent on informal and predatory lenders.
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