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By Michelle Manza, National Project Manager Assistant, planetGOLD Philippines - December 29, 2020
Three weeks. Three typhoons. Extensive flooding. Destructive landslides. Thousands of people huddled in evacuation centers amidst the pandemic with 434,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases (as of writing). Such is the case of the Philippines since the last week of October when Typhoon Molave (local name Quinta), Super Typhoon Goni […]
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By Shyne Catedral, National Communications Assistant, planetGOLD Philippines and Anupama Ariyaratne, Communications Officer, Artisanal Gold Council - November 12, 2020
Gold mining in the Philippines is a major contributor to economic development and it occurs in two main forms: large-scale, and artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). In 2018, the Philippines generated 36.8 metric tons of gold, worth about US $1.5 billion at world prices. According to the Central Bank […]
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By Aimée Florentine Kaboré, Communication Specialist, planetGOLD Burkina Faso and Anupama Ariyaratne, Communications Officer, Artisanal Gold Council - October 15, 2020
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining often uses rudimentary technology, requires physically demanding dangerous labour and is routinely undertaken by marginalized communities in an informal setting. In Burkina Faso, approximately 20-30% of those working on mine sites are women, where they carry out various tasks such as crushing ore, collecting water, […]
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By Aimée Florentine Kaboré Communication Specialist, planetGOLD Burkina Faso - September 24, 2020
Burkina Faso has an artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector that directly employs over 430,000 people and indirectly supports six times as many people via the secondary economy created by the sector. The economic support provided by ASGM and the skills diversification that it provides agrarian workers and rural […]
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By Namuun Tsegmid, Communications Assistant, AGC, planetGOLD Mongolia - August 7, 2020
Tunkhel is a village located in the Selenge province, 150 km north of Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar with a population of approximately 3,042 people. Tunkhel was established by loggers working in the timber industry back in the 1960s and is surrounded by a thick forest which makes up 80% of the […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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