Miner’s support
The Mining Services department of ARM is responsible for providing assistance, information, and guidance on technical, legal, economic, environmental, labor, and social matters to its diverse project participants, which include ASMOs, public officials, women mining associations, and educational institutions. Through this support, the organization seeks to contribute towards developing a mining sector that is sustainable, responsible, inclusive, protective of the environment, and respectful of human and labor rights.
To date, support services have been provided to:
ASM Organizations
Among small businesses, cooperatives, and mining associations
Individual miners
Beneficiaries
in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Mongolia
Some of our most significant achievements:
Mercury
%
Mercury reduction
in four mining cooperatives in Bolivia and Colombia, after receiving training on retorts and instruction on optimal uses
%
Mercury reduction
In two cooperatives in Colombia and Bolivia, by implementing gravimetric concentration methods
Mercury elimination plans based on metallurgical testing
%
Progress on the plant
In a mining association of Colombia.
Labor Conditions
%
Written labor contracts in the intervened organizations
%
Social security payments
%