With the passing of Law 11/2018 Concerning the Minamata Convention and Presidential Regulation 21/2019 Concerning the National Action Plan on the Reduction and Elimination of Mercury (RAN-PPM) in any sector, usage of mercury will be restricted and forbidden in the trade, manufacturing, and mining sectors. With regard to the mining sector, use of mercury will even be forbidden for the Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector.
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.
In Indonesia, financial entities do not commonly provide loans to the ASGM sector since the sector is generally typified by high and unmitigated/unmanageable (which may be perceived or real) financial risk resulting principally from unproven and/or inconsistent financial returns from mineral production. This situation has become one of the challenges for the Global Opportunities for Long-term Development – Integrated Sound Management of Mercury in Indonesia’s Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (GOLDISMIA) Project which aims to establish financing lending arrangements through which the legalized ASGM miners/cooperatives can procure/invest in mercury-free processing equipment
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 Smallscale 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.
Under Component 1, the Global Opportunities for Long-Term Development – Integrated Sound Management of Mercury in Indonesia’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (GOLD-ISMIA) Project aims to establish national systems whose capacity to assess, plan and implement sustainable and mercury-free interventions in the ASGM sector. The Project also aims to create enabling environment through improved national policies and regulatory frameworks for ASGM and mercury phase-out in the sector.
Field research conducted by the GOLD-ISMIA project team at Buwun Mas and Kedaro villages at the Sekotong field location investigated the mass balance of Hg during amalgamation in a rod mill
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