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Challenges and opportunities for women at artisanal gold mining sites in Burkina Faso

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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Introducing clean and efficient mercury free gold processing to South West Burkina Faso

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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The village of Tunkhel is leading the development of a more responsible artisanal gold mining sector in Mongolia

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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AGC in the NYT (Artisanal Gold Council in the New York Times)

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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Flawed Newspaper Article causes Perth Mint to Suspend All ASM Gold

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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Gabon: Covid lockdown boosts gold sales

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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COVID-19 and Artisanal Miners in Indonesia’s Kalimantan Province

By Erza Winanto - May 26, 2020

Repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic have reached even the most isolated regions of the globe, among them the Artisanal Gold Council’s project in the Pudu Jaya WPR area in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The AGC project lies surrounded by palm forest about an hour’s journey from the nearest gold buying centre […]

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