Resources

A brief review of financial scheme offerings by financial entities for SME applicants from the ASGM sector.

The project shares lessons learned while researching a potential gold reserve in Hulawa Village, Sumalata Timur District.

This study reveals that women are less recognized for their existence in ASGM. Undertaking a gender-sensitive situation analysis, including a barrier analysis, is a useful way to strengthen understanding of the context of marginalized actor in ASGM sector

With the results of these field researches, GOLD-ISMIA will develop a mobile application and a web portal database through which the estimation of the mercury avoided from the mercury-free processing units within the project locations can be monitored in a systematic way and on regular basis.

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 are exposed to.

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.

planetGOLD ISMIA summarizes eight financial mechanism models for their ASGM sector.

planetGOLD ISMIA conducted a market study to establish a baseline that would illustrate how gold mined from ASGM is traded, the price mechanism and the market actors involved. This study tool place between April and August 2020 within the six project sites.

This study included a consultative process with a broad array of stakeholder groups yielding consensus on the principal obstacles to ASGM formalization. To enable ASGM operators to formalize, a recommendation emerged for a National Unified Formalization Plan, which rests on six proposals that largely align with current policy and legislation.

La herramienta busca ser de utilidad para los proyectos o entidades que deseen preparar un plan de trabajo conjunto con las organizaciones mineras artesanales y de pequeña escala a través de una evaluación y análisis que evidencie una línea base preliminar del estado de la organización su potencial de crecimiento y compromiso hacia una minería artesanal y de pequeña escala (MAPE) responsable.