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A group of seated people gather around a man who stands while he makes a presentation. They are in a hut.
ALIGN Zambia
… country in Southern Africa endowed with natural resources, and mining and agriculture are key contributors to its economy by GDP. …
Project, 15 September 2025
Rehema Peter Mushi mines red garnets and sapphires in Tanzania. She recently won a grant to purchase equipment (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day
… This third 'digital day' is part of IIED's work on the artisanal mining sector. While an estimated 3-4 million people are employed in the formal mining sector, some 20-30 million work in informal ASM. Many of those … to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining Watch interviews with stakeholders who attended the November 2017 …
News, 02 March 2018
Levocatus Saidi Bujiku has been working as an artisanal miner for about two years (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Gold mining: the search for common ground
… Within any gold mining district you will find a wide range of people. At a glance, they … the geologist at her desk to the miner down the pit, and from the mining officer to the village elder, large-scale miners, small-scale … and their loved ones. The photos below tell the human story of gold mining... Click on each of the images below to expand them. …
Insight, 11 June 2015
Mining industry relations to get boost in Ghana
… in-country, cross-sector dialogues on artisanal and small-scale gold mining, supported by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation . The first in-country … itself in November 2015.  Organisations that are knowledgeable on mining and engage closely with local mining communities are encouraged to bid (PDF) . The organisation should …
News, 10 July 2015
Water and gravity are used to separate and, ultimately, leave the diamonds (Photo: James McQuilken/@J_McQuilken)
Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?
… Diamond mining is not without controversy. High-profile campaigns in the late … conversation on how to support artisanal small-scale (ASM) diamond mining communities to become thriving small-scale producers is also … to mitigate the social impacts of artisanal and small-scale diamond mining, nor about ways to support artisanal diamond entrepreneurship and …
Insight, 03 December 2018
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Artisanal and small-scale mining
Publication, 01 April 2014
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Cortec Mining Kenya Limited, Cortec (Pty) Limited, and Stirling Capital Limited v. Republic of Kenya
… treaty between Kenya and the United Kingdom. The dispute relates to a mining project in Kenya. The award addresses questions of investor … Cortec Mining Kenya Limited, Cortec (Pty) Limited, and Stirling Capital Limited …
Publication, 01 July 2019
Stakeholders, including IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis (right), brainstorm to provide actionable solutions to challenges facing women in ASM during a workshop in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
IIED at the 2017 Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development annual meeting
… IIED hosted a session on 'Women and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)' on Thursday, 19 October. The session aimed to engage … focused on identifying practical ways to enable women's progress as mining and linked entrepreneurs, and to lead sustainable livelihoods. … that help deliver a more inclusive and accountable mining sector . Read ' Golden practices defy gloom ' – while small-scale …
Event, 16 October 2017
Women including mining engineer Judith Akorfa Buaba (centre) employed at the Dakete mine, in Ghana (Photo: Gabriela Flores Zavala)
Can mining dig rural women out of poverty in Ghana?
… Walking within the artisanal and small-scale mining population in Tarkwa, one of Ghana's principal mining regions, it dawns on me that the local population has walked a … dialogue" in Ghana with people working in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), which included visits to artisanal mines to hear the views …
Insight, 08 March 2016
A meeting of mines
… Mining activities, both large-and small-scale, are highly emotive and … Media and academic reports have helped entrench negative views on mining. Small-scale mining is often associated with ‘blood diamonds’, ‘conflict coltan’ and …
Insight, 20 April 2010