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Note by the secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

Fact sheet on the dangers of mercury

The focus in this report is on five countries: Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, featuring case studies of the most severe active gold mining fronts.

This poster designed by the planetGOLD Burkina Faso project was created to share information with local communities in mining areas on the ways in which mercury use accumulates in and impacts the environment.

This booklet produced by the planetGOLD Burkina Faso project shares information on the health impacts of exposure to mercury

Consciente de la frecuencia con que los mineros juegan a las cartas en su tiempo libre, el proyecto hermano de planetGOLD en Ecuador diseñó estas tarjetas educativas para distribuirlas en las zonas mineras como herramienta de concienciación. Los naipes contienen más de 50 datos diferentes sobre tecnologías mineras, mercurio, formalización y mucho más.

This report highlights good legal frameworks that cover a mine's life cycle and then looks at case studies that illustrate how different jurisdictions have further integrated mechanisms into their legal frameworks to address Indigenous Peoples and mining conflict.

These insight are an important lessons for the range of efforts and approach on the part of governments, international organizations, and civil society organizations, to promote the use of clean and efficient technology for ASGM.

The report intends to: (1) Make the case for increasing the current level of GDL refining of ASM gold; (2)Examine the obstacles to increasing ASM gold volumes going through GDL refiners; (3) Make proposals to remove or mitigate the impact of these obstacles, so that more responsibly mined ASM gold can be refined by GDL refiners; and (4) Propose ways that those committed to doing so can go further.

The IPIS Open Data dashboard on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) enables users to query and subset IPIS Open Data using various combinations of filters.