By Eve Sanou and Tegan Holmes - June 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 second year of implementation, the European Partnership for Responsible Minerals-funded Scalable Trade in Artisanal Gold project (the STAG project) has begun conducting workshops related […]
By Eve Sanou and Tegan Holmes - August 2, 2021
For most of the men and women engaged along the informal gold supply chain in Burkina Faso, there are only limited opportunities both to become formalized and to achieve more than a subsistence level of livelihood. The European Partnership for Responsible Minerals-funded, Artisanal Gold Council (AGC)-RESOLVE–Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) implemented […]
By Artisanal Gold Council - April 21, 2020
The Artisanal Gold Council has been collecting data on gold prices offered to artisanal miners both pre-and-post Covid-19 in countries around the world. The table below is a sample of that data. The full database will go live in the next few days. Our thanks to the many individuals and […]
By Artisanal Gold Council - April 16, 2020
Africa sells to Dubai and Dubai sells onward to Switzerland. The Swiss sell to London (but also to Dubai and India) and London sells back to Switzerland and also onward to Hong Kong. International gold trade has many routes and inter-connections but as is evident from the COVID-19 crisis, it […]
By Artisanal Gold Council - 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, […]
