Resources

Since 2018, The Impact Facility has been looking for practical ways to manage, mitigate an eliminate mercury use in the ASGM space. This report presents work carried out in mercury use sensitisation, with more than a dozen artisanal mining groups in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, reflecting on successes, challenges and failures experienced along the way

This report aims to map issues related to responsible business conduct in the production and trade of gold in Venezuela, in order to support companies implementing the recommendations of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas to exercise their due diligence. 

With the Government of Kenya’s latest investments in its small-scale domestic gold sector, including its own refining capabilities, the time is right to tackle the drivers of illicit trade. 

This document was created to guide the training of health practitioners on certain health risks that are common in the sector. While there are many health risks in the ASGM sector, this guide is limited to risks specifically related to ASGM, particularly those that are rarely covered by general university professional trainings.

This guide describes the principals of reducing and eliminating mercury use in ASGM in an accessible manner. Featuring many photographs of ASGM equipment and techniques, the document explains the importance of milling and concentration, as well as other covering other topics such as retorts and tailings. 

The face of ASGM and conditions in Indonesia can change for the better and healthier by switching miners to using mercury-free technologies and enabling them to sell their gold to the formal market. This video from the planetGOLD project in Indonesia explains why it's critical to Make Mercury History in artisanal and small-scale gold mining to ensure healthy food chains and to protect human health today and for future generations. Closed captions in English are available.

The research analyzes the barriers and limitations of this sector in the regions with the highest incidence or presence of small-scale mining in order to propose financial products and services ad hoc to the reality of ASM that allows them to be included in the formal financial system.

La investigación analiza las barreras y limitaciones de este sector en las regiones con mayor
incidencia o presencia de minería de pequeña escala con la finalidad de proponer productos y servicios financieros ad hoc a la realidad de la MAPE que les permita su inclusión en el sistema financiero formal.

El documento constituye un diagnóstico y, a la vez, un análisis de la oferta y demanda de productos y servicios financieros para la minería aurífera artesanal y a pequeña escala (MAPE), en el que se identificaron factores limitantes y oportunidades de introducción de productos y servicios regulados, previa definición de un plan de acceso al sistema financiero regulado.

The objective of this report is to summarize gender dynamics in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector and their social and economic implications on women miners in Mongolia.  The report concludes that, while some barriers exist, the ASGM sector offers viable livelihoods options for women and identifies encouraging opportunities for women to serve as agents of change for formalization and better mining practices.