By Shawn Blore - April 14, 2020
Face aux prédictions d’experts selon lesquelles l’épidémie de COVID-19 au Burkina Faso pourrait rivaliser avec celle de l’Italie ou de l’Espagne, les autorités de la nation ouest-africaine ont mis en œuvre de vastes mesures de quarantaine. Les mesures – ainsi que les nombreux blocages internationaux actuellement en place – ont […]
By Shawn Blore - April 14, 2020
The AGC’s Gold Trading Hubs Dashboard gives the operational status of the world’s major gold trading hubs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dashboard gives each hub’s overall status, as well as the status of six factors indicating whether or not the hub can trade. These include border controls, internal controls, […]
By Namuun Tsegmid and Dulguun Mijiddorj - April 14, 2020
Since Mongolia transitioned away from central planning in 1990, mining has come to play a dominant role in the economy. In 2016, the mineral sector accounted for 20.6% of Mongolia’s GDP, 80% of its exports, 30% of the national budget revenue, and more than 70% of the country’s foreign […]
By Rachel Deloughery - April 13, 2020
AGC is proud to be a participant in the planetGOLD programme! Here is what planetGOLD is doing already about COVID-19: planetGOLD’s programme manager Ludovic Bernaudat recently issued a statement on COVID-19 and its impacts on both the programme and the world of artisanal and small-scale mining. “During this time of […]
By Shyne Catedral, Michelle Manza, and Abigail Ocate - April 13, 2020
During a crisis, the people who are hit the hardest are those on the bottom rungs of the ladder, the ones with existing vulnerabilities that are compounded by the new disaster. Millions of artisanal and small-scale gold miners around the world are entirely dependent on the gold they sell […]
By Shawn Blore - April 10, 2020
Faced with expert predictions that the COVID-19 epidemic in Burkina Faso could rival that of Italy or Spain, authorities in the West African nation have implemented sweeping lockdown and quarantine measures. The measures – along with the many international lockdowns now in place – have slowed or halted artisanal gold […]
By Shawn Blore - April 8, 2020
In the race to re-start global artisanal gold supply chains the world took one stop forward April 6 with the re-opening of critical Swiss gold refineries in the country’s gold-refining hub of Tecino[1]. One day later, unfortunately, it took one step back as Dubai announced a sweeping two-week lockdown which […]
By Kevin Telmer - March 23, 2020
Mareike Kroll and Kevin Telmer, Artisanal Gold Council (published first on March 23, 2020; last update: April 28) This is an ongoing article on Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) communities and COVID-19 with regular updates that accompany developments of COVID-19 and as new information and thinking about its impacts on […]
