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Creation of a consultation framework for ASM in Burkina Faso
Last Thursday, June 2, 2022, a multi-stakeholder consultation framework for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) was launched in Ouagadougou,...
Experiences on ASM formalization and networking shared by women miners from 5 Latin American countries
La Paz, Bolivia - June 2022 From June 1 to 3, 2022, women miners from Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia participated in the event...
First National Dialogue in Honduras for ASM Formalization
In May 2022, in Tegucigalpa, the first National Dialogue on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining took place within the framework of the new national...
ARM provides more tools for artisanal miners in Burkina Faso
In its mission to support and promote good practices in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sub-sector, the Alliance for Responsible Mining...
An Event for Strengthening Gold Supply Chains in Colombia’s Mining Communities
The closure of the Raíces Doradas Project gathered over 50 attendants around a dialog on the challenges and opportunities of the artisanal mining...
ARM will participate in the 15th OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains 2022
Consult and register to the OECD Forum events where the Alliance for Responsible Mining and its partners will participate. The 15th Forum on...
First convention of women gold miners in Colombia
More than 45 women from Antioquia, Caldas, and Huila, departments of Colombia, met to share their challenges in their work as artisanal women...
Financial modeling tool applied on artisanal gold mining is released
Models allow users to integrate fiscal regimes of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and Peru, for comparative purposes. Additionally, they...
The second cycle of intercultural dialogue in the mining context begins
The Second Cycle of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mining Context, a space to analyze and discuss the current situation and challenges related to...
52 groups of artisanal miners from Choco exported 33 kilos of gold to Switzerland within the framework of Golden Roots Project
This milestone was accomplished thanks to the pilot implementation of the Harmonized Due Diligence Tool, which integrates the CRAFT Code and the...
Experiences on the elimination of child labor shared by leaders from Antioquia and South of Bolivar
Several leaders of civil society organizations from the municipalities of Zaragoza, El Bagre in Antioquia, and San Martín and Barranco de Loba in...
Due Diligence Training for Small-Scale Miners in Honduras
The new EU Conflict Minerals regulation was enforced in 2021, intending to get gold, tungsten, tin, and tantalum supplies only from responsible...
ASM Due Diligence Certificate Course Finishes in Chocó
At the beginning of November, with a dialogue of knowledge, the closure of the Certificate Course on ASM Due Diligence, Environmental Governance,...
Project launched in Burkina Faso to promote human rights in ASM
Overview of the participants at the ProDHu-MAPE project launch ceremony. In September 2021, the consortium composed by the Alliance for Responsible...
Mineros La María carries out reforestation day’s labor
300 native tree species were planted in the municipality of San Roque, Antioquia, by miners who are part of the Mineros La María organization, as...
Cycle of Dialogue on Mining in Ethnic Territories Begins
On October 5, the first virtual session was held in the context of ancestral mining, which is part of the first cycle on mining in ethnic...
ASM Due Diligence, environmental governance, gender equity and peace building certificate course begins in Choco
An 80 percent of the Certificate course participants belong to the Artisanal and Small-scale Mining – ASM sector. 19 women are part of the...
ARM accompanies mining organizations in Madre de Dios, Peru, on their path towards responsible mining
Together with the NGO Pure Earth, the Alliance for Responsible Mining visited four mining organizations in the department of Madre de Dios in Peru...
Addressing security and human rights risks in the Colombian ASM sector
Together with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF), the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) has carried out a multi-year...
Minas y Cuevas: Pioneering ASM in Honduras
“Being a miner means a lot to me because my children’s health, education and family depend on it”, says Nery Marquez, a miner at the Honduran Minas...