What We Do

For Artisanal Gold Mining Communities

  • Practical and intuitive technical interventions for improved practices
  • Mercury-free processing equipment and training
  • Tailing management and remediation
  • Technology transfer programming
  • Occupational health and safety training
  • Responsible Artisanal Gold production
  • Creating responsible economic opportunities in ASGM sector
  • Environmental management strategies for reduction of ASGM impact and outcome monitoring
  • Responsible mine to market connection

For Governments

  • Strategies to promote reduction of emissions and releases of mercury, as part of their Minamata Convention commitments
  • Robust, detailed and reliable information and data on the ASGM sector in the developing world
  • Sector mapping/inventory
  • Baseline assessments
  • R&D of ASGM technologies
  • Governance formalization
  • National Action Plans development and execution
  • Stakeholder engagement and dialogue on benefits of ASGM and solutions to issues
  • Communications and outreach campaigns to improve understanding of ASGM benefits
  • Policy recommendation such as tax harmonization

For Funders, Donors and Downstream

  • Supply-chain mapping
  • Responsible Artisanal Gold trade chains from mine to market
  • Buyer identification and business partnerships brokering
  • Communications and outreach campaigns to improve understanding of ASGM benefits