New positions in the Board of Directors of the foundation
The first week of September the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) chose Felix Hruschka as the new president and Harbi Guerrero as vice president. Due to their great work done during several years in the organization, from now on, the two...
First women miners’ gold sale as per the CRAFT Code: Passport to markets
A major milestone in Colombia and the world, which proves that access to the legal market under transparent conditions is possible in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) through the application of due diligence 1 with a developmental outlook. This breakthrough was...
MACDESA mining organization, they have done it again!
Congratulations on this new accomplishment, MACDESA. We are happy and proud to announce that Minera Aurífera Cuatro de Enero Sociedad Anónima, MACDESA, has managed to get re-certified under the Fairmined Standard for the second year in a row. The IMO auditing firm...
What did we get out of Somos Tesoro?
“Before Somos Tesoro arrived, we had a very different life,” says Mercedes Cárdenas, the female leader of the Guantó vereda, in Gámeza, Boyacá. “Each one of us was doing her own thing. Today we are group; we are five women, and we created our community market garden,...