By Shawn Blore - June 29, 2020
The Artisanal Gold Council made the New York Times on Friday in a Thomson Reuters story that highlighted two of the initiatives the AGC set in motion to help artisanal miners affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Published June 26 by Johannesburg-based mining correspondent Helen Reid and picked up by newspapers […]
By Shawn Blore - June 16, 2020
A June 11 article in the Australian Financial Review that incorrectly labelled artisanal gold from Papua New Guinea as conflict gold has caused the Perth Mint to temporarily suspend all purchases of ASM gold. According to a statement released in the name of the chair of Gold Corporation, Sam Walsh, […]
By Shawn Blore - June 16, 2020
A June 11 article by Angus Grigg in the Australian Financial Review is inaccurate when it claims that the Perth Mint is sourcing ‘conflict gold’ from artisanal miners in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The use of the term ‘conflict gold’ in connection with PNG is technically incorrect. The misuse of […]
By Shawn Blore - June 10, 2020
Gabon’s government gold buying agency, the CGCO, is currently faced with the comfortable challenge of exporting its stockpile of ASM gold, now more than 200kg and growing as gold from its ASGM sector continues to pour in. The flight restrictions and border closures implemented by Gabon authorities to fight the […]
By Shawn Blore - June 10, 2020
The travel restrictions imposed by Gabon to deal with the corona virus have inadvertently turned out to be a boon for the country’s government-run artisanal gold buying comptoir, now successfully buying ASM gold at 10 times its pre-Covid rate. A West African nation of some 2.1 million people, Gabon shut […]
