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The Changing Impacts of COVID-19 on Mongolia’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

By Namuun Tsegmid - May 19, 2021

Mongolia, a vast country characterized by rugged landscapes, a nomadic culture, and an active artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector has not been untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic. Having the longest land border with China spanning 4,600 kilometres, as well as a very long border with Russia, the Government of […]

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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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Australian Financial Review errs in calling PNG artisanal gold ‘conflict gold’

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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Kilos of gold and no place to sell: Gabon and the impassible barrier of OECD Due Diligence

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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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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IMPACTS DE COVID-19 SUR LES COMMUNAUTÉS EMAPE DU BURKINA – MIS A JOUR LE 20 MAI

By Adama Ouedraogo - May 21, 2020

L’exploitation aurifère artisanale a recommencé  le 4 mai 2020. Les prix de l’or sur le terrain , qui étaient tombés à 54% du spot, ont rebondi à environ 82% le 6 mai. Cette dernière mise à jour, le 20 mai, montre que les prix restent stables a environ 82% du […]

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Burkina Faso Price Update – Field prices remain steady at 82% of spot, 12% below pre-Covid

By Adama Ouedraogo - May 21, 2020

Artisanal gold mining re-opened May 4, 2020.  Field prices for gold, which had fallen to as low as 54% of spot, bounced back up to around 82% by May 6. This latest update, May 20, shows prices remaining steady in the low 80% range.   Today in the field of […]

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Artisanal Gold Communities as Prime COVID-19 Intervention Targets: Supply Chain Reform, Health In Gold Out

By Shawn Blore, Marieke Kroll, Kevin Telmer - May 14, 2020

Artisanal Gold Communities as Prime COVID-19 Intervention Targets: Supply Chain Reform, Health In Gold Even pre-COVID, the world’s more than 40 million artisanal miners earned a precarious living. Producers of diamonds and tin, tungsten and tantalum, cassiterite, cobalt, and an estimated 20% of the world’s new gold supply each year[1], […]

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Road to formalization: STAG advocate Kam Sié Dominique discusses formalization at Diarkadougou site

Jun 30, 2022

While Burkina Faso’s artisanal gold mining sector continues to grow, the informal nature of the sector has been doing the same. ASGM provides…

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ASGM stakeholders learn to use OECD due diligence guidelines through the STAG adapted version of the CRAFT Code

Jun 28, 2022

Workshop participants and the STAG team. National project manager and team leader Alizèta Ouedraogo is in the center in black. | AGC 2022 Now in its…

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The Artisanal Gold Council attended an action-packed PDAC 2022 conference in Toronto

Jun 16, 2022

The Artisanal Gold Council represented the Artisanal Gold Mining sector at the massive PDAC 2022 conference in Toronto from June 13-16.…

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Artisanal Gold Council team attending PDAC conference to highlight the importance of artisanal gold mining sector to jobs and environment, and to explain planetGOLD projects

Jun 13, 2022

Artisanal Gold Council Executive Director Dr. Kevin Telmer led a team from AGC’s Victoria, B.C., headquarters to represent the Artisanal Mining…

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STAG’s Ousmane Hamadoum has a clear vision for Burkina Faso’s formalized Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector

Jun 10, 2022

The artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector has long been marginalized at least partly due to its informal nature. However, the global…

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