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©LISE REMON June 27th 2016 The artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector provides employment for an estimated 20 million people in the...

  ©ARM June 13th - 2016 After five very successful years as the Executive Director of ARM, Lina Villa will be moving on from her...

©Manuela Franco June 10th 2016 The Alliance for Responsible Mining and the Fundación Ayuda support the leading role of women in the...

©ARM May 27th 2016 After one year of Fairmined Certification the Mongolian NGO XAMODX successfully passes its recertification audit. Reaching...

©ARM April 21st 2016 The Alliance for Responsible Mining announces today that Fairmined Ecological Gold from the Mongolian organization XAMODX and...

©Nigel Wright April 7th 2016 Forced labour takes many forms and is still common in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). This can even happen...

©Majoral March 10 2016 The Fairmined initiative has grown steadily since 2014 when the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) launched its flexible...

©ARM February 5th, 2016 After great achievements as a Fairmined certified mining organization, including national and international recognition for...

©Manuela Franco January 28th 2016 Traceability and assurance are the most important pillars of the Fairmined Certification System, guaranteeing that...

©Erik Five Gunnerud December 3rd, 2015 For the first time in the Nobel Peace Prize’s history, the winners of this year’s award will be presented...

©ARM November 26th, 2015 Spirits where high when the Alliance for Responsible Mining, in collaboration with Cumbre del Sajama, hosted its Regional...

©ARM November 19th, 2015 When the Bolivian mining cooperative 15 de Agosto obtained Fairmined Certification in September 2015, each and every member...

©ARM November 19th, 2015 "This is all well and good, Demba, but how does Fairmined Certification support us miners?” This is among the many...

©Nigel Wright 11 de noviembre de 2015 We are pleased to announce that MINERA SOTRAMI SA, one of the very first organizations ever to certify under...

©ARM November 11th, 2015 The Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy recently released a proposal for a decree that aims to establish a...

©Eduardo Martino October 23, 2015 Time flies when you are having fun, they say,and time is certainly flying by very fast in the Alliance for...

©Manuela Franco October 7th 2015 Today the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) and the Swiss watch and jewelry manufacturer Chopard announce that...

©ARM October 5th 2015 The Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) expresses its grief and condolences to the relatives and close friends of the three...

September 24th 2015 We are happy proud to present the Spanish version of the publication “What is Legal? Formalising artisanal and small-scale...

©SAM September 14th, 2015 Artisanal and small-scale mining in Colombia and Mongolia has success stories but also faces certain challenges in the...