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GLOBAL - UN Environment
The video describes the use of mercury in gold extraction in small-scale mining activities. It further underlines the risks that mercury poses to the surrounding environment and people. It also presents an overview of alternative, environmentally-friendly methods that can be applied in place of mercury amalgamation.
GLOBAL - Alliance for Responsible Mining
The video presents a certification scheme: The Fairmined Initiative that was created by the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), a non-profit organization.
ECUADOR - Brandon Nichols, NBK Mining Engineering Department, University of British Columbia
An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners extract their gold, crush it, process the ore and recover the gold using both mercury and cyanide.
Artisanal Gold Council, 2015
[ English / French ]
Artisanal Gold Council, 2015
[ English / French ]
[ Spanish ]
Alianza por la Minería Responsable, 2015
PRECIOUS METAL, CHEAP LABOR Child Labor and Corporate Responsibility in Ghana’s Artisanal Gold Mines
Human Rights Watch, 2015
Artisanal Gold Council, 2015
[English/ French]
Artisanal Gold Council, 2015
[ French ]
PHILIPPINES - Ban Toxics!
This video presents a program entitled “Eliminating Mercury Pollution in Small-Scale Gold Mining”. The program is implemented in seven major small-scale gold mining areas in the Philippines.
Alliance for Responsible Mining / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014
[ English / French ]
BURKINA FASO - Artisanal Gold Council
GLOBAL - Pure Earth, Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta, UN Environment
This video shows an environmentally-friendly method of gold recovery that has a potential to eliminate the use mercury in artisanal gold mining in some areas. It shows how gold recovery and incomes can be greatly improved while also protecting the environment and human health.
Herman Gibb and Keri Grace O’Leary
Alianza por la Minería Responsable, 2014
[ Spanish ]
Managing the risk of forced labor in ASM is complex. Strategies to tackle it must address the double objective of eradicating forced labor and making sure that innocent people who rely on Artisanal and Small-scale Mining for their livelihoods are not excluded from mineral supply chains.
Human Rights Watch, 2013
Karen Hayes and Rachel Perks, 2012
[ English / French / Spanish ]
Réduire l’utilisation du mercure dans le secteur de l’orpaillage et de l’exploitation minière artisanale: Guide pratique
Reducción del uso de mercurio en la minería de oro artesanal y de pequeña escala: Guía Práctica
UNEP, 2012
Tanzania, Uganda and Peru Cases studies
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The overall goal of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership is to protect human health and the environment from the releases of mercury.