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Participatory agenda for the mining sector
We connected ideas in order to improve artisanal and small scale mining. On December 5th and 6th of 2019, the Colombia Regional Workshop...
Golden Roots, a project for the governance and empowerment of women in the mining sector.
Artisanal mining in Chocó, Colombia is an ancestral way of life for the local population. Historically, this activity has been marginalized and...
HAPPY 2020! We love challenges
The Alliance for Responsible Mining team would like to thank you for your support in 2019. We wish you a successful 2020. We hope that in 2020 there...
We participated in the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3)
We attended the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3) in order to bring several decisions and...
Handmade jewelry launch created by CECOMIP members in Peru
The association Divinas en Brillo de Oro, made up of some members of La Central de Cooperativas Minero Metalúrgicas de Puno (CECOMIP), exhibited...
Workshop about the application of the CRAFT Code in Tarkwa, Ghana
Within the framework of the partnership with Solidarity-Ghana, the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) developed a workshop from Wednesday the...
Project launch in the beneficiary regions of Burkina Faso!
After a launch at national level in May, the municipality of Réo, in the Centre-ouest region, hosted its first regional workshop launch of the...
Formalization and Marketing Workshop in Chala, Peru
On July 8, 9 and 10, the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) hosted the regional workshop in the city of Chala, Peru, where the formalization...
We attended the International Conference and Exposition of Mining and Energy of Zambia
Experts in the industry and featured professionals in the energy sector attended and they addressed some of the key problems that affect energy...
CRAFT Code´s revision
The Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) and RESOLVE have developed an open-source market entry standard, the Code of Risk-mitigation for ASM...
Workshop for the development of skills for the OECD’s Due Diligence Guide in Popayan
On June 14 2019, we organized a workshop on the OECD’s Due Diligence Guide in Popayan, Cauca, Colombia, with the aim of helping the department’s...
The Alliance for Responsible Mining will expand its board of directors
With the aim of inculcating new ideas, proposals and strategies that respond to current challenges in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector...
We took part in the OECD’s Forum on responsible supply chains for minerals
Cristian Morales, Colombian miner who participated in ARM’s processes and president of the mining cooperative Coodmilla: “Perseverance is the tool...
We participated in the Forum on responsible mineral supply chains and its supporting measures
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the impact of the new regulation on the responsible sourcing of the 3T and gold minerals and its...
Generating a productive empowerment
Since November 2017, the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), along with the funding from the Ensemble Foundation, the Colorado School of Mines...
We attended the NEOMIN Fair in Peru
The goal of the event was to assist small mining producers in employing clean technologies to eradicate the use of mercury in mining, as well as for...
We started the activities of the new stage of the project Somos Tesoro in Boyacá, Colombia!
In the first stage of Somos Tesoro, project funded by the USDOL, which lasted 5 years, we worked on reducing child labor in the mining areas of...
Training workshop on the OECD Due Diligence Guidance
On February 27, the skills workshop on the OECD Diligence Due Diligence Guidance was held in Medellin, Colombia, in order to understand the context,...
Inauguration of Minas y Cuevas’ gravimetric plant, Honduras
On the 8th of February we inaugurated the gravimetric plant for the recovery of gold and other metals of the artisanal and small-scale mining...
How we are facing 2019
For the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), 2018 ended with some encouraging news, such as the increase from 8 to 11 artisanal and small-scale...